OVERVIEW

The Exile Poster Project aims to confront specific injustices in Portland, Oregon, through the powerful medium of the poster. The show will feature passionate and personal work from professional designers and artists working in the city. This body of work is designed to incite local communities into critical, creative action. Ultimately, the Project exists to help invigorate and expand the city's manifold efforts to combat injustice and oppression. 

The show's sustaining theme, Exile, grounds each year's new work in broad human experiences like rejection and isolation, brokenness and scarring. Every year a new sub-theme will explore an actual manifestation of Exile in our community. Wherever people are being exiled in our midst—treated as disposable, cheap, or inhuman—the poster show will shine a spotlight, raise a rally sign, and broadcast a prophetic call for the community to rise up in renewed strength on behalf of the invisible and outcast among us. So while the show's overt visual statements will change every year, its underlying moral statement remains the same: 

In Portland, not a single person should be treated as a throw-away.

The 2011 show will focus on the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Posters may be purchased at cost and used by individuals, non-profits, and corporations to instigate thought and action in our communities. All proceeds go to the Victim's Assistance Fund at SARC, Portland's Sexual Assault Resource Center.