Post-Election Recovery Day: Featuring special programs to soothe the soul

November 9, 2016 @ 1:00 pm EST - 4:00 pm EST

Election Weary? Norman Rockwell Museum offers Post-Election Recovery Day

Featuring special programs to soothe the soul

  • 1 p.m.  Educator Pat O’Donnell will offer drawing in the galleries at 1 p.m. for those who would benefit from a creative outlet.
  • Enjoy self-guided art activities throughout the day in the Creativity Center.
  • 2:00 p.m.  Director/CEO Laurie Norton Moffatt will discuss her recent Op-ed entitled “Norman Rockwell’s Fifth Freedom, The Freedom to Vote” with community conversation.
  • 3:00 p.m. Curators Barbara Rundback and Venus Van Ness will speak at about earlier contentious elections, as portrayed in the Museum’s exhibition, “President’s Politics and the Pen: the Influential Art of Thomas Nast.” Commemorating the 2016 presidential season, over 30 editorial cartoons by the “Father of the American Cartoon,” published by the provocative Harper’s Weekly between 1864 and 1884 are on view. The illustrations penned by Thomas Nast (1840-1902) reflect his pointed and persuasive opinions on presidential candidates during six different election years.
  • 3:30 p.m.  Kathi Hatch, Kripalu-trained yoga teacher, will offer her popular yoga class at 3:30 p.m. with guided meditation and healing restorative poses; no experience with yoga necessary.

All programs are free for museum members or included with regular admission. Reservations are not required.

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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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