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Animals Galore!
Monday, April 21 - Saturday, April 26,
1 to 4 p.m.
Get inspired by the art on view! Find animals real and imagined in the Museum's galleries and create a creature of your own design. Free with Museum admission. Learn more...
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Hearsay to Heresy:
An Evening of Satire, Balladeering, and Political Unrest
Saturday, April 19, 5 p.m.
Enjoy this one-man, three-act play by poet/author Nathan Smith, which traverses the 19th century and explores humanity's interactions with nature. A reception and refreshments will follow. Adults: $10, $6 for Museum members; children 12 and under: $5; or free with Museum admission.
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Form, Function, and Furnishings
Sunday, April 27 at 2 p.m.
What's in a couch? Dr. Joyce K. Schiller, curator of the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, will discuss the stories that illustrations of interior spaces reveal by analyzing the furnishings and decorative objects that appear in them. Tea and treats will be served! Free with Museum admission.
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An Afternoon with Author Mary Higgins Clark and Wendell Minor
Saturday, May 10, 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Join us for an exciting afternoon with renowned suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark, whose forty-plus book have been bestsellers in the United States and throughout the world. Ms. Higgins Clark will be joined by illustrator Wendell Minor in conversation about their long-running friendship and their collaboration on two illustrated children's books, The Magical Christmas Horse and Ghost Ship.
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Image credits:
Wendell Minor, illustration for The Wolves are Back by Jean Craighead George, 2008. ©Wendell Minor. All rights reserved.
Wendell Minor, illustration for If You Spent a Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond by Robert Burleigh, 2012. ©Wendell Minor. All rights reserved.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), The Decorator, 1940. Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 30, 1940. Norman Rockwell Museum Digital Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN.
Murray Tinkelman, New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, 1991. Ink on paper. ©Murray Tinkelman. All rights reserved.
Image courtesy Daisy Rockwell. All rights reserved.
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