CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Imagining Freedom Virtual Field Trip

Give your students a world-class museum experience without ever leaving the classroom. Students can explore the Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom exhibition through an immersive virtual platform, and teachers can choose from a suite of lessons and activities designed to integrate the experience into classroom curriculum. Each lesson includes a thematic selection of art and objects, questions to spark guided discussion, in-class activities to promote student engagement, and contextual information to deepen learning.

The Virtual Field Trip is FREE to educators and schools, upon request, with unlimited visits and use.


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Beverly Reich
Submitted by Randall de Seve

Who is YOUR “Original Sister?”

Think of a woman you admire who has made a difference in the world or who has had a significant impact on your own life. They might be well-known or simply someone you know or know about. Make a piece of art that represents the woman you chose. Draw a picture, select a favorite photo of them, use objects to create a symbolic portrait, or be creative and come up with your own way to celebrate them. Send us your submission to be included in the exhibition by taking a photo of your completed artwork or image you would like to submit and email it to: learn@nrm.org or click the button below.

Stephanie Haboush Plunkett
Submitted by David Hagen

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New Perspectives on Illustration: Barry Blitt’s “Bromance” by Kevin Valente

A exciting new feature on our website, New Perspectives on Illustration, written by emerging scholars, will offer fresh perspectives on published art. The outstanding analysis here by MICA graduate illustration student Kevin Valente was inspired by illustrator Barry Blitt's "Bromance," an August 2012 cover for The New Yorker. This fall, the Norman Rockwell Museum continues its educational collaboration with Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Stephanie Plunkett, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, and Joyce K. Schiller, Ph.D., curator of the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, teach a Critical Seminar course at MICA for an outstanding group of students in the Master of Fine Arts Illustration Practice Program, chaired by award-winning illustrator Whitney Sherman. Enjoy Kevin Valente's piece, and look for more compelling commentary on the art of illustration soon.

Mini-Con This Saturday

A Festival of Comics Saturday, November 17 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Celebrate the art of comics during this exciting afternoon of artist talks and demonstrations, workshops, signings, and comic book appraisals inspired by our current exhibition, Heroes & Villains: The Comic Book Art of Alex Ross. Come dressed as you favorite superhero and get $2 off admission. Artists Howard Cruse, Marek Bennett, Lynn Pauley, Jerry Craft, Sean Wan, Greg Ruth and others will be with us. See more for the complete schedule of events.

Postman Reading Mail

Norman Rockwell, Postman Reading Mail, 1922. Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 18, 1922.

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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.