Print and Poster Sale provides students chance to observe, buy many kinds of art

Kim Nelson

If your dorm room walls are bare, or you just can’t seem to find the perfect picture to hang above your living room couch, you need not look any further than the Print and Poster Sale at the Memorial Union.

The annual sale is going on daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Oak Room and will continue through Friday, Sept. 5. It will be closed over Labor Day weekend.

This sale has the biggest selection anywhere, said Emily Heller of Trent Graphics, the company that supplies the posters. There are several thousand images to choose from.

The wide variety of prints and posters include movie posters, rock posters, and nature and floral prints. Prints by famous artists like Matisse, Wyeth, Escher, Ansel Adams, Geddes, Warhol and Dali are also popular, Heller said.

However, she said that “movie posters sell the most.”

“All different genres and pretty cheap prices bring a lot of people in,” she said. Posters range in price from 75 cents to $15, while most are in the $6 to $8 range.

If you really want a poster, but can’t afford one, you can earn one by working at the sale. Trent Graphics will hire students to help out for $6 worth of posters an hour, Heller said.

People are in and out all day long, but the lunch hour is the busiest, Heller said. Approximately 500 posters are sold each day.

Some people just walk through to check out the selection while others are there on a mission for a certain image.

Erica Brinker, a junior in graphic design, said she was looking for the John Coltrane Bluetrain poster they had last year.

She said they have a lot of the same stuff as last year, but the prices aren’t too bad. “It depends on how badly you want the poster,” she said.

Halim To, a senior in chemical engineering, said he was just at the sale to take a look, but might come back to buy later.

“Prices are comparable to other places,” he said.