In 1968 students and faculty at the L’ecole des Beaux-Arts in France founded the Atelier Populaire (the Popular Workshop), a studio space in which anyone could produce a politically-themed poster on the communal printing press. Once printed, no one in the workshop was allowed to sign their posters; this created a collective authorship among the prints and furthered the workshop’s goal of creating a mass of politically engaged makers who were concerned with the pure collective creation and dissemination of political posters rather than receiving individual credit. The group insisted that their silkscreen posters not be referred to as art. This, combined with the fact that the group displayed their posters in the streets surrounding the studio (which served as the gallery space) meant that the masses could view the group’s work in a more approachable way than if the posters were exhibited within the walls of a ticketed museum.