Culture Meets Business: Gail Anderson

About the event

This is the second talk in our Culture Meets Business series, which aims to connect local cultural organisations with local businesses. The event features Gail Anderson, author and former Art Director of Rolling Stone Magazine. Gail will join us for a special discussion on her work at PorterShed on Monday 26 June at 6pm.

About the speaker

Gail Anderson is an American designer, illustrator, writer, and educator. She is Chair of BFA Design and BFA Advertising at the School of Visual Arts in New York and creative director at Visual Arts Press. Gail is the former creative director of design at SpotCo, a New York City advertising agency specializing in Broadway and institutional theatre, and served as a senior art director at Rolling Stone magazine (1987–2002).

Gail serves on the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee for the US Postal Service and the advisory boards of Poster House and The One Club for Creativity. She is an AIGA Medalist, the 2018 recipient of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a 2022 Art Directors Club Manship Medallion honoree. Her work is represented in the Library of Congress’s permanent collection, the Milton Glaser Design Archives, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Gail’s visit to the west of Ireland is part of her participation in the Design West Summer School and Creative Festival at the ATU Connemara campus in Letterfrack, alongside colleagues from Pentagram, Studio Mut, B302, IDI, and leading Irish design studios.

About Culture Meets Business

Culture Meets Business is a project within the Connecting Business and Culture Programme, designed to strengthen collaboration between local cultural organisations and businesses. The initiative is a partnership with the Galway Chamber of Commerce, fostering connections between the business and cultural sectors while highlighting the artistic visions driving Galway as a business destination.

The project is curated by Tracey Ferguson and funded by the Galway Culture Company, supported by the Government of Ireland under the National Development Plan through the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.