Bonnie Siegler, voted one of the fifty most influential designers working today by Graphic Design USA, founded and runs the award-winning design studio Eight and a Half. She is best known for her design work for Saturday Night Live, the Criterion Collection, HBO, Late Night with Seth Meyers, StoryCorps, Participant Media, and Newsweek. She has taught at the graduate level for many years at the School of Visual Arts and Yale University, conducted workshops at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Rhode Island School of Design, and judged design competitions all over the place. She is the author of Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America and of Dear Client, This Book Will Teach You How to Get What You Want from Creative People.
Bonnie Siegler will be curating, Signs of Resistance, an exhibition for Non–Breaking Space that will be on view and open to the public September 20th thru November 29th, 2018.
Cleo Barnett
Conversation with Bonnie Siegler following the lecture
Cleo Barnett is a curator, producer, and experience designer born in New Zealand and based in the United States. Her practice explores the relationship between space creation, engagement in the arts, and community liberation grounded in sustainability. Currently, Cleo works as the Deputy Director of Amplifier, a non-profit organization which builds visual media experiments in collaboration with contemporary artists, educators and community engagement, to amplify the voices of social movements. Cleo co-produced and co-curated multiple global public art campaigns including the iconic We The People Campaign, Women’s March on Washington, and March For Our Lives. The result was millions of iconic posters distributed and downloaded across the country, and building the non-profit into a globally recognized art and social justice organization.
