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Online Symposium: Illustration, Puppetry, and American Popular Culture: The Art and Legacy of Tony Sarg (Day 1)

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Zoom Webinar (online)
Friday, October 20, 2023 – 7pm to 8:30pm

Organized by the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and the American Theater for Puppetry Arts in Austerlitz, New York, this interdisciplinary symposium brings together artists, puppeteers, and scholars from across the humanities to explore the life, art and adventures of Tony Sarg (1880-1942), the charismatic illustrator, designer, puppeteer, and entrepreneur whose prolific career sheds light on the creative imagination and the ability of artists to inspire a collective sense of wonder and joy.

Online Symposium: Illustration, Puppetry, and American Popular Culture: The Art and Legacy of Tony Sarg (Day 2)

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Zoom Webinar (online)
Saturday, October 21, 2023 – 10am to 3pm

Organized by the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and the American Theater for Puppetry Arts in Austerlitz, New York, this interdisciplinary symposium brings together artists, puppeteers, and scholars from across the humanities to explore the life, art and adventures of Tony Sarg (1880-1942), the charismatic illustrator, designer, puppeteer, and entrepreneur whose prolific career sheds light on the creative imagination and the ability of artists to inspire a collective sense of wonder and joy.

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

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Virtual Program

Friday, October 18 from 6pm to 8pm
Saturday, October 19 from 10am to 3:30pm
One ticket is good for both days.


Members: $25
Non-Members:  $35
College Students: $10

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Program Overview:

Join us for this lively, in-depth exploration of the art, history, and cultural relevance 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. The evolution of MAD’s unique brand of subversive humor and its impact will be discussed by the illustrators, cartoonists, editors, writers, historians, and collectors whose deep knowledge of the subject and personal contributions have sustained the magazine’s notable legacy.

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

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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