Printed Media x Printed Justice: Exhibition-in-a-Box with posters
Printed Media x Printed Justice: Exhibition-in-a-Box Front View
Printed Media x Printed Justice with folded 11 x 17” insert (left) and stack of 20 folded posters (right)
Selection of folded posters from Printed Media x Printed Justice: Exhibition-in-a-Box
Poster No. 1 (pages 2-3), unfolded
Poster No. 2 (pages 6-7), unfolded with overlay (center left) of Naturalization Act of 1790
Poster No. 3 (pages 8-9), unfolded
Poster No. 4 (pages 12-13), unfolded with overlay (upper left) of 1847 Mapa de los Estados Unidos
de Méjico by John Disturnell used to negotiate the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Poster No. 6 (pages 22-23), unfolded
Poster No. 8 (pages 26-27), unfolded
Poster No. 9 (pages 30-31), unfolded with overlay (center left) of The Immigration Act of 1924
Poster No. 10 (pages 34-35), unfolded
Poster No. 11 (pages 44-45), unfolded with overlay (center) of 14th Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)
Poster No. 12 (pages 48-49), unfolded
Poster No. 13 (pages 58-59), unfolded
Poster No. 14 (pages 68-69)
Poster No. 15 (pages 76-77), unfolded
Poster No. 16 (pages 82-83), unfolded
Poster No. 17 (pages 84-85), unfolded
Poster No. 18 (pages 90-91), unfolded
Poster No. 19 (pages 100-101), unfolded
Poster No. 20 (pages 110-111), unfolded with overlay (center right) of Justice Sotomayor’s dissent, Trump v. Hawaii
Maida's guerilla mailing campaign focused specifically on museums that have a vested interest in Ansel Adams's work, asking them to consider their responsibility engaging with their own histories as well as history at large. Maida's posters, which constellate key civil-liberty documents from 1790 through 2018 from the 3 branches of U.S. government with pages from his 2018 book, are now also housed at these museums. Through Maida's act of mailing his posters and his accompanying call to action, he has revisited and reconsidered history on the personal, institutional, and governmental levels, considering how all histories are recalled by contributing new layers that can be further activated, at will, not only by an artist but also by a curator, a legislator, or a President.
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met): Thomas J. Watson Library
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) ; Hirsch Library
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA)
Maida's guerilla mailing campaign focused specifically on museums that have a vested interest in Ansel Adams's work, asking them to consider their responsibility engaging with their own histories as well as history at large. Maida's posters, which constellate key civil-liberty documents from 1790 through 2018 from the 3 branches of U.S. government with pages from his 2018 book, are now also housed at these museums. Through Maida's act of mailing his posters and his accompanying call to action, he has revisited and reconsidered history on the personal, institutional, and governmental levels, considering how all histories are recalled by contributing new layers that can be further activated, at will, not only by an artist but also by a curator, a legislator, or a President.
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met): Thomas J. Watson Library
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) ; Hirsch Library
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA)