September 10 - December 11, 2011
Opening Event:
September 10, 2011
University Art Museum
CSU Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
562.985.7604
Peace Press was a Los Angeles print collective founded by members of The Resistance when no print shops would print their materials
opposing the Viet Nam War or the draft. The Peace Press collective printed for many of the leading progressive groups of the time, including the Alliance for Survival, American Indian Movement, Angela Davis Defense Committee, Ash Grove, Black Panther Party, United Farm Workers, and the Women's Building. To Pacific Standard Times' goal of documenting the rarely acknowledged innovations of the postwar Los Angeles art scene, Peace Press Graphics adds the protest poster, one of the primary—but least documented—art forms of the times. This exhibition also reveals the importance of Los Angeles as a center of political activism.
