Virtual Family Program + Exclusive Q&A

Honor Martin Luther King Day by joining in a read aloud and conversation about the book Ruby Head High: Ruby Bridges’s First Day of School by Irene Cohen-Janca and illustrated by Marc Daniau. Based on the  true story of Ruby Bridges, the first African American student to attend an all-white school in the segregated South, the story is also the subject of Norman Rockwell’s painting The Problem We All Live With which hung outside President Barack Obama’s Oval Office and is currently on view at the Museum. High school student, actress and singer Keely Rose O’Gorman will read.

Following the reading, artist Bria Goeller will join Keely in a conversation about The Problem We All Live With, her meme based on the painting which celebrates Kamala Harris’s groundbreaking Vice President elect status, and the role of imagery in shaping cultural narratives. Bria will also take questions from the audience, and especially from young people interested in her work.

Please submit questions to learn@nrm.org.

This program is supported in part by the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.