My name is Brendan O'Connell. I graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 2008. From 2004-2008, I put on lots of shows and events at Wesleyan. Posters were a big part of what I did. I always made at least one (and often 5 or so) posters for my events.
I love concert posters, I love making them and putting them up. They get noticed and they have effects on people. One of my posters featured a dumpster-dived photo of several Wesleyan students hanging out. They came to my concert only to demand that I take down all the posters. Another poster (Jean's for USAISAMONSTER) apparently offended some people, and every one got ripped down except for one hidden inside a phone booth, which I saved for my archive.
I wasn't consciously setting out to create an archive when I collected these posters. It just happened that way. I'm hoping other people will contribute to this collection and we can expand it as a crucial part of our school's collective memory.
Some of these posters are used without permission of the creators. If you don't want your work featured here, leave a comment on the post and I'll take it down. For some of them, I don't know the creator! If you made a poster here, please identify yourself and add any info you want to as a comment. I want this to be a dynamic, living collection. I invite submissions from current Wesleyan students as well.
Please send your poster submissions as JPGs to: wesleyanposterarchive@gmail.com
CLICK on the posters to see them big! They have lots of details.
Also check out the comments! Some other people who went to these shows have started adding their experiences, and I invite you to as well.
Latest submissions uploaded : September 21, 2011
