Atelier populaire

On 14 May 1968, art students, artists and workers decided to occupy the studios of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, already on strike, to produce posters and ‘give concrete support to the great movement of the workers on strike who are occupying their factories in defiance of the Gaullist government.’
Between 14 May and 27 June, when the police entered the school, the Atelier Populaire printed more than 350 different posters. With anonymous designs and distributed free of charge, screenprints and lithographs were conceived in support of the workers’ struggle, becoming one of the more evident manifestations of the emerging solidarity between students and workers.