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Virtual MuseumRich Bradway2024-09-06T11:27:18-04:00

Norman Rockawell: Imagining Freedom - A Virtual Exhibition

This virtual exhibition is an experience that you access on your computer, mobile device, or virtual reality (VR) headset. Once you purchase it, you can access it at any anytime, anywhere, however many times you would like.

Imagining Freedom - Main Gallery

Educators looking for tools to provide their students with meaningful connections to social justice and human rights will find compelling visual and interactive content in the Norman Rockwell Museum’s Virtual Exhibition, “Imagining Freedom”.

Natalie Johnson, educator

ONLINE SYMPOSIUM:

The Usual Gang of Idiots and Other Suspects: MAD Magazine and American Humor

Zoom Webinar (online) Friday, October 18 from 6pm to 8pm
Saturday, October 19 from 10am to 3:30pm

Join us for this lively exploration of the art and history of MAD—the long-running humor magazine and counter-culture touchstone that has attracted readers and spoken truth to power for more than seven decades. MAD’s unique brand of subversive humor, as well as its evolution and impact, will be discussed by illustrators, cartoonists, editors, writers, historians, and collectors whose deep knowledge of the subject and personal contributions have sustained the magazine’s legacy over time.

The program is organized in conjunction with What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine at the Norman Rockwell Museum, on view until October 27, 2024.

Sam Viviano
Hijinks on the High Seas, 2022
Illustration for “Hijinks on the High Seas!” by John Ficarra, MAD #28, December 2022
Ink and Dr. Martin’s Dyes on Bristol board
Collection of Sam Viviano

DRAWING LIFE with Illustrators from Norman Rockwell’s Studio

Wonder. Storytelling. Human Connection. From a converted carriage barn on South Street in Stockbridge, MA, Norman Rockwell painted his way into the hearts and lives of people around the world. In this Studio—his last and “best yet”—Rockwell’s imaginative artistry established a legacy of creativity that continues to inspire artists and visitors alike. Today, illustration art is everywhere: books and graphic novels, editorials and advertising, video games and the metaverse, posters, comics, clothing, and tattoos.

A 14 month series of online and on-demand programs features leading illustrators from across the United States demonstrating their craft and discussing ways in which published illustration reflects and shapes society and advances social good.

Louis Henry Mitchell

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Norman Rockwell Museum has been creating new online ways for our visitors to discover our extensive collections of art, historical objects, classroom activities, and scholarship.

We are thrilled to now have curated experiences that collect related images, photography, video, audio and history relating to the Museum’s renowned collection of Norman Rockwell’s original paintings, his Stockbridge Studio, as well as the Museum’s vast collection of illustration art. Enjoy your Virtual Museum!

Land Acknowledgement

It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land on which the Norman Rockwell Museum was built. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.

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