Tolerance Posters

We are pleased to announce that  Miami International University of Art & Design  has prepared a show inspired by the Tolerance Poster Show. In collaboration with  Amer_icanican , they are bringing the show to Miami in 2023. Led by Professor Nestor Camacho, Master of Visual Art students created posters inspired by the word Tolerance and what that word meant to them. Then, Bachelor of Fashion Design students translated those posters into apparel.  The show is currently on display at  DK Display Corp.  at 147 West 25th Street in New York.    

 Here is the link to the first announcement of the Tolerance Poster Show at La Casa del Lago-UNAM , Mexico City. The show will take place on March 4th and will be on display until May 7th. "In a world increasingly divided by social injustice and racial disparity,   The Tolerance Poster Show  uses the unique power of design and graphics to remind us of what all people have in common.    In this context, La Casa del Lago-UNAM joins the list of venues where the exhibition has been hosted with its assembly in Las Rejas de la Milla del Bosque de Chapultepec, which has been characterized as a space for reflection and promulgation of the social slogan."    

On January 21st,  June Art Home 's students, aged 16-18, were invited to create their own Tolerance posters. Since there is no direct translation for the word tolerance in the Thai language, the students of  June Art Home  found their own replacement for that word. They designed their Tolerance posters based on them. To be inspired in their creation, the students were surrounded by the official Tolerance posters created by professional artists. At the end of the workshop, the students' Tolerance posters were on display alongside the official Tolerance Poster Show. The event also included movie screenings and students reading stories. The founder of  June Art Home , Chitlada Wiriyaprasit - June, hopes that after this experience, the students can be inspired to develop their artistic skills and social responsibilities.   Chitlada Wiriyaprasit - June opened her schoolin 1997. Her school focus on kids and youth. She teach her student with open-end in mind, that make her student hav

On November 23rd 2022, I gave the lecture "Design Activism" on the importance of free expression and art activism at  Chavón Campus La Romana   in La Romana, the Dominican Republic. After that, I had a three day Tolerance poster workshop with students from different countries with assistance from professor Elías Roedán. On January 9th, the school will hold a show of the posters created by the students at the workshop at   Chavón Campus Miraflores   in Santa Domingo. The workshop was organized and made possible by Adolfo Lucero, Vice Chancellor, Elías Roedán, Academic Coordinator and Martha Victoria, Administrative Director at CHAVON The School of Design.

Prior to the official opening of the Tolerance Poster Show in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on October 22nd, 2022, I held a  lecture  on the importance of designer activism in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Banja Luka, attended by students, professors and cultural operators from all sectors. We want to extend our gratitude to Edin Atlic, Project Leader at the EU Info Centr e in BiH and Sarita Vujković, director of the  Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska . The lecture and the tolerance poster show are realized to mark 2022 – the European Year of Youth. They are supported by the  European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina  & the  EU Info Centre in BiH .    

On October 24th 2022, Mirko Ilić gave the lecture " Design Activism " on the importance of free expression, art activism and youth engagement through design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the lecture, there was an opening of a tolerance poster show. The show was the result of the workshop of students from four art academies in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Trebinje and Široki Brijeg). The show was opened by professor  Bojan Hadžihalilović  and Ferdinand Koenig, Head of Communications/Spokesperson, Delegation of the European Union to BiH & European Union Special Representative in BiH. Moreover, the tolerance poster show and the Tolerance workshop with the fine art academies are realized to mark 2022 – the European Year of Youth. They are supported by the  European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina  & the  EU Info Centre in BiH .  

On Friday, October 21st, we had a Tolerance poster workshop at the  Academy of Fine Arts  in Sarajevo for students from four art academis in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Trebinje and Široki Brijeg) . They created their Tolerance posters as a product of the intense work over several days. The workshop was made possible with the enormous help from the academies' professors. We especially want to extend our gratitude to professor  Bojan Hadžihalilović  who conceived the idea and organized this workshop. Moreover, the Tolerance workshop with the fine art academies is realized to mark 2022 – the European Year of Youth. It is supported by the  European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina  & the  EU Info Centre in BiH .