The Haley Gallery At CMHOFM To Host Earl Newman Exhibit

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The Haley Gallery at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will host Earl Newman: Six Decades of Lyrical Compositions, an art exhibition showcasing the works of the renowned poster printmaker. Newman is also serving as the 2025 Hatch Show Print Visiting Artist. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public beginning the evening of Sept. 18 through Nov. 14, will include vintage silkscreened posters by Newman and new works created in collaboration with Hatch Show Print.

With over 70 years of experience in making posters, he is most often recognized for the posters he made for the Monterey Jazz Festival. He designed one of the very first promotional posters for the festival in 1963 and produced more than 62 unique posters for the festival over the next 46 years. The Smithsonian’s Division of Musical History in Washington, D.C., has acquired a complete collection of numbered and signed editions of Newman’s Monterey Jazz Festival posters. Newman has also designed posters for the Abbot Kinney Festival, the Northwest Art & Air Festival, the Oregon Country Fair, the Oregon Shakespeare Theater and more.

The gallery will host a free reception that is open to the public with Newman to celebrate the exhibition opening on Sept. 18. On Sept. 20 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Hatch Show Print will host “Papercuts and Rainbows,” a workshop inspired by Newman’s posters and the type collection at Hatch Show Print led by Wendy Murray.

All work on view in the Haley Gallery is available for purchase.

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