Tatiana Gómez and José R. Menéndez, co-founders and curators of the Gráfica Latina Poster Project will deliver a visiting artist lecture and a workshop in the NIU School of Art and Design, Wednesday, November 11.
The workshop, “Amplifying Voices in Your Community Through Design” will be held at 2 p.m. in room 301 of Jack Arends Hall. The visiting artist lecture, “Gráfica Latina: The Archive as a Living Tool for Building and Reimagining Design History” will be held in Jack Arends Hall room 100 at 5 p.m.
Gómez is associate professor of communication design at the Massachusettes College of Art and Design. Menéndez is assistant professor in Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media and Design. José and Tatiana are graphic designers, printmakers, educators, and co-founders of The Gráfica Latina Poster Archive and Buena Gráfica Social Studio.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Amplifying Voices in Your Community Through Design
Workshop: 2:00PM
Rm 301
How can design interventions help strengthen your community? Working in groups, students will create an intervention for a community they are part of, while understanding that no intervention is too small. The workshop will address how to strategize and select the necessary formats, visual language, and linguistic language to reach a specific community regarding a determined topic.
Gráfica Latina: The Archive as a Living Tool for Building and Reimagining Design History.
Lecture: 5:00PM
Rm AB100
Gráfica Latina is a print, digital, and mobile archive of Latin American posters that highlights key figures in graphic design from the 1960s to the present.
