Raise Your Voice: Curator-led Tour

Name: Raise Your Voice: Curator-led Tour
Start: 2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-11-11T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Museum of the City of New York

When: Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 6:30pm

Price: Free | Limited Space | Registration Recommended

A gallery with pink walls and wooden cases showing photographs, sculptures, paintings, and interactive displays — Raise Your Voice: New York Activism, photo by Brad Farwell for MCNY

New York Activism Tour: The Signage of Social Movements

Learn more about designing the signage of social movements with Josh MacPhee, creator of the interactive poster maker featured in Raise Your Voice: New York Activism.

Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY (InterferenceArchive.org). MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now and Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He has organized the Celebrate People's History poster series since 1998 and has been designing book covers for many publishers for the past decade. His most recent book is An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels (Common Notions, 2019), a compendium of information about political music and radical cultural production.

About the Tour Series

Take a closer look at Raise Your Voice: New York Activism with Puffin Foundation Curator of Social Activism Sarah Seidman. Join us monthly for a one-hour tour with our curator and special guests to learn more about one object or tool that activists created or used to propel social movements in New York City.

This series is a part of our Free Late-Night Wednesdays. Visit MCNY for free on Wednesdays until 9 p.m., and explore the Museum’s full slate of current and critically acclaimed exhibitions. From 5–9 p.m., enjoy a pop-up bar with signature cocktails, soft drinks, and snacks.

Upcoming Tours

Questions? Please contact the Public Programs department.

Supporters

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Museum of the City of New York’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.