The exhibit opens Friday, March 15, and will continue through April 20 in the Main Gallery on the north side of the campus at 18111 Nordhoff St. There will be a reception on the opening day of the exhibition at 5 p.m.

Posters by U.G. Sato of Japan and Lex Drewinsky of Germany are featured in this exhibition curated by CSUN art professor Dave Moon. Approximately 60 posters are included in this cross-global view of contemporary graphic commentary on such issues as nuclear arms, AIDS, the environment, and the ongoing search for peace.

A public lecture on the exhibition will be given by Carol Wells, director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, on Thursday, March 21, at 3 p.m. The Center for the Study of Political Graphics, a non-profit organization, has amassed an archive of over 45,000 posters from all over the world, offering a valuable resource to study the role of visual imagery in expressing local and global concerns.

The exhibition will also feature editorial drawings from the collection of Dennis Ryan. The show will include a selection of 44 original drawings dating from 1886 to 2000 created specifically for the mass media and covering a range of political issues in the United States over the past century. Among the drawings are works by such artists as Clifford Baldowski, C.Berryman, Paul Conrad, Jerry Doyle, Walt Kelly, Thomas Nast, Mac Nelly, Paul Szep and Tom Toles.

The Main Gallery is open Monday and Saturday from noon to 4 p.m., and Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information about the exhibition, call (818) 677-2226 or visit the website at www.csun.edu/artgalleries.

California State University, Northridge has more than 31,000 full- and part-time students and offers 59 bachelor's and 41 master's degrees. Founded in 1958, it is the only four-year university in the San Fernando Valley and the third largest in the 23-campus CSU system. The Western Association of Schools and Colleges recently said CSUN "stands as a model to other public urban institutions of higher education."