ONLINE Sketchatorian: A Contemporary Twist on Classic Illustration with Skylar Smith Thursdays “Drawing You into History, One Illustration at a Time” Join arts and cultural historian Skylar Smith for this series of snappy virtual art experiences exploring the social, cultural, and material underpinnings of classic illustrations, which are re-contextualized for today’s times. The continuity and evolution of American identity, branding, politics, women’s rights, and gender identity is explored with humor, wit, and a deep dive [...]
Museum Members, please join us on Zoom for a live virtual gallery walk with New Yorker cartoonist and visual journalist Liza Donnelly, before NRM's galleries reopen to the public. Please check your email inbox for an invitation to register for the event. Talk with her during a special Q&A following the tour. Become a Member The general public will be able to watch the event on the Museum's homepage and [...]
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. Virtual Program: available on Zoom and YouTube Reservations are no longer being accepted for this program. The program will be live-streamed on NRM.org and the Museum's YouTube page. Could you use a good laugh? We thought so. Join us for a lively conversation about the role of humor in challenging times with four really funny New Yorker cartoonists. Bob Eckstein, Ed Koren, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, and Michael [...]
Join New Yorker cartoonists Liza Donnelly and her husband, Michael Maslin. They’ll talk frankly (eek!) about how their marriage experiences have informed their work. Their cartoon roots and prolific careers will also be explored.
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Explore the work of cartoonists who use their passion for cartooning and social justice to inspire consideration of global issues and human rights through art. Panelists Liza Donnelly, Ann Telnaes, and Ed Hall are members of Cartooning for Peace, a group of international cartoonists working in support of world peace. The organization was envisioned in 2005 by French cartoonist Jean Plantu, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, and other who believe in in the communicative power of the cartoon medium.
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Ring in the upcoming U.S. presidential election season with the provocative and influential art of award-winning political illustrator and visual journalist Victor Juhasz.
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Join cartoonists and illustrators Liza Donnelly, Elwood Smith, Roxie Munro, and Marc Rosenthal as they talk about writing and drawing books for children and the role of humor plays in the many books they've authored.
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Join New Yorker cartoonists Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast, Victoria Roberts, Emily Sanders Hopkins, and Sara Lautman as they discuss their work and what it is like to be a woman in a field historically dominated by men.
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Due to an unexpected scheduling conflict, this program has been rescheduled to Tuesday, September 8, 2020.
Step into Rockwell’s studio with cartoonist Liza Donnelly, whose live digital drawing session and commentary will offer a unique virtual look into the legendary illustrator’s world. Her sketches and notations will document the trappings of the space that Rockwell called his “best studio yet,” from its easel, standing palette, and furnishings to his art supplies, inspirational prints, and travel collectibles.
Quick Pics are short 5-minute videos that target students in grades K-6 and introduce you and your class to a images found in the Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom exhibition. Notice and wonder about the elements and details that go into each image. Learn some fun facts and participate in an activity inspired by each image.
A new image will be released each week, starting on November 9, 2020 and running through the conclusion of the exhibition on January 18, 2021.
Learn more about this activity, download accompanying talking points, and access other curriculum on the NRM Curriculum Lab.
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 (Veteran's Day) - 1pm
Price: Free (Virtual Program + Exclusive Q&A - reservations required)
Join Kristopher Battles, Michael Fay, Victor Charles Juhasz, Elize McKelvey, and Steve Mumford, who will discuss their experiences as embedded illustrators across the branches of the armed forces and the power of art to tell personal stories. The history of artist’s working in the field, from the American Civil War to America’s more recent engagement in the Middle East, will be explored.
Quick Pics are short 5-minute videos that target students in grades K-6 and introduce you and your class to a images found in the Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom exhibition. Notice and wonder about the elements and details that go into each image. Learn some fun facts and participate in an activity inspired by each image.
A new image will be released each week, starting on November 9, 2020 and running through the conclusion of the exhibition on January 18, 2021.
Learn more about this activity, download accompanying talking points, and access other curriculum on the NRM Curriculum Lab.
Virtual Program + Exclusive Q&A
Price: Members: Free | Not-Yet Members: Pay What You Can
Pixar Animation artist Tim Evatt will offer a glimpse into his career in animation and how he draws inspiration from the golden age illustrators, including Dean Cornwell, Mead Schaeffer, J.C Leyendecker, and Norman Rockwell. This exclusive event will demonstrate a compelling, behind-the-scenes look at how Pixar animated movies are made. Tim Evatt is a 13-year art design veteran serving as a set and character artist on many of Pixar’s more recent releases: Toy Story 3, Cars 2, The Good Dinosaur, Finding Dory, Coco, The Incredibles 2 and the forthcoming 2020 release, Soul. He has also been involved in the production of a handful of animated Pixar shorts including: Toy Story Toons: Small Fry, Toy Story That Time Forgot, and was the production designer for the 2020 Oscar-nominated animated short Kitbull. He is currently the lead production designer on a major Pixar production that will be released in 2022.
Virtual Program
Date and Time: December 29, 2020, 11 a.m. EST
Price: Members - FREE | Non-Members - Pay What You Choose
Meet artist and illustrator Jeff Mack for a reading of his new book, JUST A STORY, a related drawing activity, and conversation. What can happen when a boy happens upon a discarded book that transforms a library into an escalating series of near misses and close encounters? With an exuberant art style reminiscent of newspaper comic strips, Jeff Mack brings imagination to life in this riotous tale about the power of reading.
Virtual Program
Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies Event
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 5 p.m.
Magazines are increasingly emerging as critical sites in developing a new understanding of the dynamic relationship between “fine” art and mass culture. Throughout the 20th century, a wide range of American periodicals commissioned artists to produce work for covers and feature stories, but many of these commissions have been left out of histories of modernism.
This session considers three case studies to convey the rich trajectory of art and magazines: Edward Hopper’s covers for the Wells Fargo Messenger, Mine Okubo’s drawings in Fortune magazine, and Saul Steinberg’s work for such publications as Life, Look, Sports Illustrated, and Time. The papers explore the origins of and motivations behind such commissions and analyzes the art as it was originally published in print, showing how advertisements, adjacent articles, and captions shaped the initial reception and understanding of the works.
Presenters and Topics:
Chair: Erika Doss - Professor of American Studies, University of Notre Dame; Rockwell Center Distinguished Fellow
Virtual Program - Free Event
Thursday, April 29, 2021 – 7 p.m.
Friday, June 18 from 7pm to 8:30 p.m.
Keynote:
Jesse Kowalski, Exhibition Curator
A History of Modern Fantasy Illustration
Saturday, June 19 from 10am to 12:30pm
Opening Remarks:
Sara Frazetta, Frazetta Girls
Artist Panel One: The Frazetta Legacy in Contemporary Fantasy Illustration: A Family of Artists
Tuesday evenings in July and August at 5:30p.m.
Featured Artist: Brom
One of the most highly regarded artists of his generation, Brom creates haunting imagery for the horror novels that he writes and illustrates.
Meet the international artists featured in the Fantasy Art exhibition on view at the Museum this summer. Join us in person, or online to hear from these world class illustrators. Learn about what inspires them, their current work, and future aspirations, followed by a Q&A.
The artists will stream in from their studios far and wide. Join in person, via a large digital screen, on the Museum’s scenic terrace; now offering beer, wine and a specialty cocktail, and ala carte menu; bring your friends! Enjoy online with our NRM global community; we’ll share a fantastical cocktail recipe to make.
Price:
Access to the online stream at the Museum is free with regular admission, cash bar.
Online participants:
Tuesday evenings in July and August at 5:30p.m.
Featured Artist: Thomas Blackshear
Over the past four decades, Blackshear has painted artworks for magazines, movie studios, and postage stamps, including a series he later released in a portfolio titled, The African American Tradition: Heroes of Our Heritages, which featured Rosa Parks, Dorothy Height, Ida B. Wells, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and others.
Meet the international artists featured in the Fantasy Art exhibition on view at the Museum this summer. Join us in person, or online to hear from these world class illustrators. Learn about what inspires them, their current work, and future aspirations, followed by a Q&A.
The artists will stream in from their studios far and wide. Join in person, via a large digital screen, on the Museum’s scenic terrace; now offering beer, wine and a specialty cocktail, and ala carte menu; bring your friends! Enjoy online with our NRM global community; we’ll share a fantastical cocktail recipe to make.
Price:
Access to the online stream at the Museum is free with regular admission, cash bar.
Online participants:
Tuesday evenings in July and August at 5:30p.m.
Featured Artist: Tyler Jacobson
Tyler Jacobson combines vivid colors with a captivating composition to emphasize the action-packed scenes in work he has created for role-playing games, periodicals, and advertisements.
Tuesday evenings in July and August at 5:30p.m.
Featured Illustrator: Scott Gustafson
In Gustafson’s delightful style of illustrating fairy tales, the characters come to life as they are imagined, in such classic stories as “Peter Pan,” “Red Riding Hood,” “Snow White,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “The Lion and the Mouse,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” and many more.
Tuesday evenings in July and August at 5:30p.m.
Featured Artist: Anna Dittmann
As a rising young star in the field of fantasy illustration, Dittmann has taken advantage of changes in the way artists learn and produce their craft illustrating for a variety of media, including book covers, comic books, tattoos, magazines, and advertisements.
Meet the international illustrators featured in the Fantasy Art exhibition on view at the Museum this summer. Join us in person, or online to hear from these world class illustrators. Learn about what inspires them, their current work, and future aspirations, followed by a Q&A.
Illustrators will stream in from their studios far and wide. Join in person, via a large digital screen, on the Museum’s scenic terrace; now offering beer, wine and a specialty cocktail, and ala carte menu; bring your friends! Enjoy online with our NRM global community; we’ll share a fantastical cocktail recipe to make.
Price:
Access to the online stream at the Museum is free with regular admission, cash bar.
Online participants:
Tuesday evenings in July and August at 5:30p.m.
Featured Illustrator: Bob Eggleton
One of the established superstars of “weird fantasy” artwork, Eggleton has illustrated and written numerous science fiction and fantasy books, and between 1994 and 2004 won the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist eight times.
Tuesday evenings in July and August at 5:30p.m.
Featured Illustrator: Julie Bell
After becoming a nationally ranked bodybuilder, Julie Bell began a career in illustration, creating advertisements for numerous companies, designing video game packaging art, and working in the comic book industry, where she became the first woman to illustrate Conan the Barbarian for Marvel Comics.
Tuesday evenings in July and August at 5:30p.m.
Featured Illlustrator: Gary Gianni
Gary Gianni follows in the footsteps of artists like N.C. Wyeth and Hal Foster, illustrating the comic strip Prince Valiant, classic tales such as Moby Dick and Kidnapped, and the latest book in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.
Friday, October 22 from 7pm to 8:30 p.m.
Keynote:
Alice A. Carter, Author and Illustration Historian
On the Side of the Angels: Fantasy in an Age of Discovery
Price: One admission price for the entire Symposium.
Price: $10/ free for Members
Virtual Event on Zoom In this wide-ranging illustrated talk, children's book historian and exhibition co-curator Leonard Marcus will pinpoint the key art and life experiences that shaped Leo Lionni's many-faceted career and highlight his ongoing legacy in the creative work of illustrator-designers Eric Carle, Lois Ehlert, and others.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.
