Members are invited to celebrate the opening of Imprinted: Illustrating Race during a special “Members Only Exhibition Preview” from 9-10 AM. Meet the curators of the exhibit at 9:30 AM.
As a member, you receive this preferred access to see the exhibition before the Museum opens to the general public. If you would prefer, come anytime on Saturday to see the exhibition and receive an Appreciation Gift as recognition of how much you mean to the Museum we all love.
Guest Curator
Guest Curator Robyn Phillips-Pendleton, Professor of Visual Communications in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Delaware, Newark and Interim Director of the MFA in Illustration Practice program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), is a practicing illustrator, visual storyteller, designer, and educator. She has exhibited her work in national and international exhibitions, and she is also an artist for the United States Air Force Artist Program; her paintings documented the events following the earthquake in Haiti. Robyn has created illustrations for institutions of higher education, children’s CD covers, editorial magazines, picturebooks, and publishing companies. A member of the Norman Rockwell Museum National Advisory Board for Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms, which traveled internationally, she was also a juror for the exhibition’s contemporary component. She is a member of the Board of Directors of New York’s Society of Illustrators. Her research focuses on the history of illustration and the influence of published imagery on perceptions of race. Robyn’s essay, “Race, Perception, and Responsibility in Illustration,” appears in A Companion to Illustration (edited by Alan Male, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2019). Homework for Breakfast is her most recent illustrated picture book.
Norman Rockwell Museum Chief Curator/Deputy Director
Stephanie Haboush Plunkett is the Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Norman Rockwell Museum. She is the curator of many exhibitions relating to the art of illustration including Enduring Ideals: Rockwell Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms; Inventing America: Rockwell and Warhol; Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World; Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs; The Unknown Hopper: Edward Hopper as Illustrator; Ephemeral Beauty: Al Parker and the American Women’s Magazine: 1940-1960; LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel; and The Art of The New Yorker: Eighty Years in the Vanguard, and has held positions at Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and the Heckscher Museum of Art. She leads the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, the first scholarly institute devoted to the study of illustration art. “The Shifting Postwar Marketplace: Illustration in the United States and Canada 1940-1970” in History of Illustration and Drawing Lessons from the Famous Artist School: Classic Techniques and Expert Tips from the Golden Age of Illustration is a recent publication.