HOME IS 2020 – Call for Art
The current exhibit, Finding Home: Four Artists Journeys and accompanying Berkshire Immigrant Stories Project, inspired a series of art-making workshops designed to explore the meaning of home to be led by Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Professor Melanie Mowinski and her advanced design students.
Where it is not possible to hold spring workshops at the Museum, workshops are not cancelled, they are reimagined!
The relevance for exploring what home means right now has only increased.
We are one world. Engaging together in art making now as a means for observing and noticing the emotions and nuances of the time will help sustain and connect us. The virtual exhibit of art shared from around the globe will also become a window to look through and reflect on this moment in history.
We invite you to make art on the meaning of home while you are at home. And we hope you will share your work with us for inclusion and community building in an exhibition in the Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum!
There are a few ways to participate.
Linoleum Cutting
The artist Frances Jetter inspired us to create a linoleum cutting workshop. Make a linoleum block, send it to us, and we will combine it with other linoleum blocks to print a large mural using a steamroller when we reopen.
Need linoleum materials?
A limited number of linoleum blocks and cuttings tools are available for pickup in Berkshire County.
Mixed Media, Drawing, Singing, Poetry, Writing
Draw, doodle or make a collage from your mail, recyclables or whatever is available at home. Or send us your poetry or song you have written.
The Details
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Sending in your Linoleum Block?
Mail to:
Norman Rockwell Museum
Attn: Mary Berle, Chief Educator
PO Box 308
Stockbridge, MA 01262
Taking a photo of your art instead?
Email to: homeis2020@nrm.org
Rather post your art on Instagram?
Post using: #homeis2020
This program is powered by:
Elephant Rock Foundation in memory of Marion Simon.
Berkshire Immigrant Stories
Berkshire Immigrant Stories was a collaborative effort to record and share Berkshire County residents’ stories of their journeys to the United States and our region. Some of these stories are personal, while others recount familial immigration journeys. These rich local stories were incorporated into Norman Rockwell Museum’s 2019-20 exhibition, Finding Home: Four Artists’ Journeys, which explores similar themes.
Norman Rockwell Museum is so thankful for the first-, second-, and third-generation stories we were honored to receive. Please click on the videos below to hear Berkshire County residents describing their journeys and reflecting on themes of home, hope, and belonging.
The Berkshire Resident Stories and Storybooth project were generously supported by the Elephant Rock Foundation.
A special note about the photograph: This photograph features Berkshire County residents who generously shared their immigration journeys. The individuals are arranged in a manner to evoke Norman Rockwell’s iconic 1961 painting, The Golden Rule. This painting distilled the principle that Rockwell believed was at the core of the world’s religions: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” His montage portrait brings together people of many backgrounds, cultures, and races to offer a powerful vision of acceptance, tolerance, and peace. Rockwell pursued and refined versions of this painting for eight years. “I never stopped thinking that it was worthwhile,” he said.