Private Artist, Lender, & Sponsor Preview – Invitation Only
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesSpecial guests will join us for a private preview evening for Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration.
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Enchanted Gala (Sold Out)
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesWe invite you to The Enchanted Gala: the annual fundraising party of the year. Join us on a memorable outdoor quest where you can step into the world of fantasy art and live exciting experiences, dreams and be part of fantastical worlds.
Call Bailey Girvan at 413-931-2264 for any questions.
ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: Enchanted: Epic Adventures in Fantasy Illustration – Keynote Program
Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesFriday, June 18 from 7pm to 8:30 p.m.
Keynote:
Jesse Kowalski, Exhibition Curator
A History of Modern Fantasy Illustration
ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: Enchanted: Epic Adventures in Fantasy Illustration
Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesSaturday, 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
- Julie Bell
- Boris Vallejo
- Anthony Palumbo
- David Palumbo
Artist Panel Two: The Epic Fantasy Adventure
- Allesandra Pisano
- Donato Giancola
- Gregory Manchess
Price: One admission price for the entire Symposium.
- $15 members
- $20 non-members - Pay What You Choose option available
Tuesday Nights: Meet the Artist Series – Brom
Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesTuesday 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:
- Free for members
- $5 non-members
Land of Enchantment: A Fantastical Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition Opening
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesExplore the magical grounds and discover original sculptures by regional contemporary artists inspired by the Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration exhibition. Meet the sculptors; find the fairies in the Yellowwood tree, and make a dragon egg. Vote on your favorite sculptures between 10a.m - 1 p.m. Stay for the awards ceremony including Best in Show, People’s Choice, and Kids Choice awards at 3:30 p.m. Visit our ice cream stand on the Terrace!
Free with Admission, Free for Members, children & teens.
Tuesday Nights: Meet the Artist Series – Thomas Blackshear
Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesTuesday 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 Nights: Meet the Artist Series – Tyler Jacobson
Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesTuesday 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.
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:
- Free for members
- $5 non-members
Garden of Easels: Outdoor Art Workshops – From Hobbits to Hulks, Creating Characters for Stories with James Warhola
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesSaturday, July 24 from 2-4 p.m.
Outside on the Museum Terrace
For drawing enthusiasts excited to explore process and technique for creating characters for stories with artist James Warhola. (Nephew of Andy Warhol, James has illustrated over two dozen children’s books.) Bring pencils and sketchbook.
Class limited to 20 people.
Price: One admission price for the entire Symposium.
- $65 members
- $85 non-members
Tuesday Nights: Meet the Illustrator Series – Scott Gustafson
Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesTuesday 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.
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:
- Free for members
- $5 non-members
Tuesday Nights: Meet the Illustrator Series – Anna Dittmann
Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesTuesday 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:
- Free for members
- $5 non-members
Garden of Easels: Outdoor Art Workshops – The Magic of Trees, Plein Air with Ruth Sanderson
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesSaturday, August 7 from 1-4 p.m.
Outside on the Museum Terrace
Fantasy art is a blend of realism and imagination. In this intensive plein air workshop, Ruth Sanderson will demonstrate painting one of the many great trees on the Museum grounds, and incorporating a fantasy element into the painting—such as a tree spirit, fairies, or other imagined creatures, etc., and then instructing participants in creating their own oil painting. An accomplished, award winning artist, Sanderson is featured in the Fantasy exhibition.
Canvas and basic oil paint included; participants may bring favorite colors if desired. See program description online for full supply list.
Price:
- $95 members
- $125 non-members
Tuesday Nights: Meet the Illustrator Series – Bob Eggleton
Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesTuesday 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.
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:
- Free for members
- $5 non-members
Tuesday Nights: Meet the Illustrator Series – Julie Bell
Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesTuesday 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.
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:
- Free for members
- $5 non-members
Garden of Easels: Outdoor Art Workshops – Plein Air Landscape Painting with Dan Howe
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesSaturday, August 21 from 1-4 p.m.
Outside on the Museum Terrace
Accomplished Artist Dan Howe will present plein air landscape painting techniques in oils , and then guide participants in the creation of their own artworks on the Museum grounds. Participants will be welcomed to add fantasy elements, inspired by the Enchanted exhibitions, to their paintings.
Up to 20 people; supply list provided.
Price:
- $65 members
- $85 non-members
3rd Annual Art of Brewing Festival
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesTickets: $20 for members, $35 for non-members.
(valid ID with proof of age required to participate in beer tasting)
Join us for the third annual Art of Brewing Festival on August 21st. Spend an afternoon sampling some of the best local brews and local food. Be inspired by illustration art in the galleries and on the beer cans!
Participants receive ten sample pours and a souvenir pint glass. Purchase food from some of the best local food truck vendors, view current and past label art from the brewers, and see the summer’s featured exhibits in the galleries during the day. There will be music, lawn games and fun. You’ll get inspired by illustrations found on everyday objects – like beer cans!
Tuesday Nights: Meet the Illustrator Series – Gary Gianni
Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesTuesday 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.
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:
- Free for members
- $5 non-members
Outdoor Screening: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM,
BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL,
& OLD MILL ROAD MEDIA
Invite you to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
with a special outdoor screening of the movie
and special guest KAREN ALLEN
Wednesday August 25, 2021 - 6:00 pm
at Norman Rockwell Museum, 9 Glendale Road, Stockbridge, MA
$125 per person (includes reception and movie)
$20 per person – movie viewing on the lawn
Children under 17 are free on the lawn.
August Adventures – Free Admission Day
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesOn Tuesday, August 31, 2021, the Museum has partnered with the Highland Street Foundation to offer free admission day as part of their August Adventures program.
We thank the Highland Street Foundation for their support of August Adventures.
PLEASE NOTE:
Capacity to the Museum is limited. Please reserve your tickets online to guarantee your entry into the Museum on August 31, 2021.
Norman Rockwell: The Rising Tide – Live Webinar
Live WebinarThis event is organized by the Appraisers Association.
September 20, 2021 1-2 p.m. EST
America’s most prominent twentieth-century illustrator,
Norman Rockwell was revered by his public and reviled
by many in the art world, but his paintings were made
to last. Replaced at the turn of a page by a succession
of magazine issues and illustrations, his visual narratives
called the history of European art into play, employing
classical painting methodology to weave contemporary
tales inspired by everyday people and places. A cast of
affable, exquisitely painted characters and a plethora of
supporting details kept him and his audience engaged,
and inspired belief by millions in the uniquely American
vision that he conceived and continued to refine.
$25 – $30
ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: Enchanted: Mythology and Fairy Tales – Keynote Program
Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesFriday, 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.
- $15 members
- $20 non-members - Pay What You Choose option available
$15 – $20
ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: Enchanted: Mythology and Fairy Tales
Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesSaturday, October 23, from 10am to 12:30pm
Opening Remarks:
Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, Deputy Director/Chief Curator
Real and Imagined: Fantastical Rockwell
Artist Panel One: The Fairy Tale in Fantasy Art
- Ruth Sanderson
- Jane Yolen
Artist Panel Two: The Making of Myth
- Victo Ngai
- Justin Gerard
- Iain McCaig
Price: One admission price for the entire Symposium.
- $15 members
- $20 non-members
$15 – $20
Opening Weekend: Jan Brett – Stories Near & Far
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesJoin us to explore our new holiday/winter exhibition, complete with creative scavenger hunts for children and families; recorded story readings by Jan Brett; and artist signed books available in the Museum store. Included with admission; free for kids & teens, and Members.
Member’s Viewing Party with Jan Brett
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesMeet the artist at this exclusive member’s exhibition preview of Jan Brett Stories Near & Far. Pre-order personalized and signed books. Free for Members, by reservation only; limited capacity and timed tickets.
Joyful Holidays Family Day
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesChildren’s Book Readings from Jan Brett: Stories Near and Far, on the hour
Throughout the day:
- Winter Wonderland Scavenger Hunts (for children & families)
- Drawing in the Galleries – Join chief curator Stephanie Habboush Plunkett and the Museum staff for an interactive gallery drawing experience that will inspire a closer look at the art on view.
- Meet Hedgie! Meet and take a pic with the beloved iconic character from Jan Brett’s books. (Costumed character; not a real hedgehog!)
Jan Brett-signed books available in the Museum Store.
Included with admission; free for kids & teens, and Members. Advance admission tickets at NRM.org
Winter Wonderland Scavenger Hunts
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesThroughout the Day!
Winter Wonderland Scavenger Hunts (for children & families)
Jan Brett-signed books available in the Museum Store. Included with admission; free for kids & teens. Advance admission tickets at NRM.org
SOLD OUT! Book Launch Celebration: Jan Brett’s The Nutcracker
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesBook Launch Celebration: Jan Brett’s The Nutcracker
Sorry, this day is at capacity, no more RSVPs permitted. Pre-signed books are available through the Museum Store at Store.NRM.org.
Meet author/illustrator Jan Brett and Hedgie, a costumed character and beloved favorite from her stories! Set out on a Winter Wonderland Scavenger Hunt for kids and families; and enjoy recorded book readings by the artist herself.
11 - 11:30 Meet, Greet & Book Signing* with Jan
11:30 - 12:00 Meet, Greet & Book Signing* with Jan
1 p.m. : Remarks, Reading, Drawing Demo, and Book Signing*
Enjoy a drawing demo, readings, and book signing* of her newest book, Jan Brett’s The Nutcracker, as well as other classic favorites.
2 - 3 p.m. : Book Signing* with Jan
3 - 4 p.m. : Book Signing* with Jan
Included with admission; pre-ordered book required for book signing. (Minimum of one book, max of two please.*) Free for kids & teens, and Members, with book purchase.
*Please note: Jan will do her very best to sign books with personal inscriptions; depending on the number of attendees, she may provide hand-signed bookplates as an alternative; these will be available for all personal book copies.
December School Vacation Week – Jan Brett’s Winter Wonders
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United States
An indoor adventure with the beloved stories and animals featured in Jan Brett’s books, on view in our featured exhibition Jan Brett: Stories Near & Far. Explore the art on view by going on a Winter Wonderland Scavenger Hunt. Readings from Jan Brett’s books are scheduled throughout the week and take-home activities are available. Find your favorite books in the Museum store, signed by the artist!
Included with admission; free for kids & teens, and Members. Advance admission tickets at NRM.org
Museum Closed (January 1 – 7, 2022)
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesThe Norman Rockwell Museum will be closed Saturday, January 1st through Friday, January 7th, 2022. The Museum will be re-open again on Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 10AM. Have a happy and safe holiday season!
VIRTUAL PROGRAM – Martin Luther King Jr Day – Imprinted: Illustrating Race
Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesFREE EVENT
Illustration has been at the forefront of significant, defining events in America from the Civil War and Reconstruction Era to the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s and today. Robyn Phillips-Pendleton, co-curator of the Norman Rockwell Museum’s upcoming exhibition, Imprinted: Illustrating Race, will discuss her thesis and preview the exhibition focusing on widely circulated published imagery, produced over the course of four centuries, which has impacted public perception about race in America.
Phillips-Pendleton’s talk will trace damaging and prolific stereotypical representations of race, commissioned by publishers and advertisers and created by illustrators, engravers, and printers—images psychologically imprinted upon us through their mass proliferation. Her comments will also highlight the work of twentieth and twenty-first century creators working to shift the cultural narrative for our times. We hope that the exhibition, which opens in June 2022, will spark dialogue and raise awareness about the role of published art in reflecting and shaping firmly held beliefs and attitudes.
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.