Gail Anderson, Marian Wright Edelman Poster (2018)

Gail Anderson (BFA 1984 Media Arts), the 2018 recipient of the National Design Awards’ Lifetime Achievement honor, is the chair of the College’s BFA Advertising and BFA Design departments, a longtime SVA faculty member and creative director of the Visual Arts Press, the College’s in-house design studio. Her career has included turns at Vintage Books, The Boston Globe Magazine and Rolling Stone. A throughline in her work has been an affinity and passion for typography, exemplified here in a poster for the Chicago Design Museum, featuring civil-rights activist Marian Wright Edelman’s quote, “A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back—but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.”

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The College’s library has curated a wealth of multimedia resources to commemorate the annual observance.