Dietmar Offenhuber

Digital archive of signs from last year’s Boston Women’s March now available online

“ArtoftheMarch.Boston” is an interactive, digital trove — and a large one at that — of the many slogans, sayings, and witty and creative phrases that were scribbled or delicately drawn onto the placards people brought to the demonstration in January of last year, one day after President Trump’s inauguration. A throng of marchers attended the […]

You can now see the posters from Boston’s Women’s March online

Ever wonder what happened to the signs from the Women’s March in Boston last year? With the help of Northeastern University, a team of scholars, students and volunteers created an online archive of more than 6,000 posters and pieces of artwork from the Jan. 21, 2017 protest.

Archivists will sort through signs from the Boston Women’s March this weekend

After the rally was done and after the speeches and chants, many of the tens of thousands of people who had gathered in January for the Boston Women’s March protesting Donald Trump’s presidency dropped the signs they carried along Boston Common. The signs were destined for the trash, but a group from Northeastern University is […]

Yard signs channel the fears — and hopes — of a fraught era

Dietmar Offenhuber, an assistant professor at Northeastern University in the departments of Art + Design and Public Policy, compared the yard signs to street art, a compassionate message to a broad audience. “It’s finding a different way of leading political discourse that’s not dictated by rhetoric of mass media,” Offenhuber said. “It’s finding a way […]