Old Town School of Folk Music posters

On the second and third floor of Old Town School of Folk Music’s underwhelming new building (too much cubicle-reminiscent bleige carpeting), the walls pulse with rock n’ roll posters. Many hand-pulled and some signed, the 75 posters—which a handy, introductory text panel calls “our history”—come from collector Ronald Cohen, the Peace Museum and the Old Town School. Gems include late-sixties psychedelic prints advertising Woodstock Aquarian Exposition (publicizing the “unspoiled air” of White Lake, New York) and a geometric, naked foursome announcing headliner Taj Mahal. It’s too bad organizers didn’t hang anything contemporary: Chicago has a wealth of notable indie poster artists, many whose careers, no doubt, cross paths with Old Town School.