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Norman Rockwell Museum Launches Award-Winning Virtual Field Trip Program to Enhance Art Education Nationwide
Stockbridge, MA – November 25, 2024 – The Norman Rockwell Museum (NRM) is pleased to announce the launch of its innovative Virtual Field Trip (VFT) Imagining Freedom, designed to bring art and civic education directly to students and teachers nationwide. Leveraging advanced interactive technology, the program delivers an engaging virtual museum experience, showcasing Norman Rockwell’s iconic works and significant American illustration art alongside the Museum’s rich educational resources—all digitally accessible to classrooms across the country....
Observer features “Original Sisters”
Anita Kunz has made a career of drawing famous people: presidents and other world leaders for the covers of the New Yorker, Variety and Time…, and rap and rock stars for Rolling Stone. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. For the past four years, however, she’s focused less on portraying VIPs and more on depicting subjects and stories unfamiliar to many or even most of us.
The Berkshire Edge reviews “Original Sisters”
Stockbridge — Portraits of historically famous women, as well as some less well known, are all part of the exhibit “Original Sisters: Portraits of Tenacity and Courage” on display at the Norman Rockwell Museum. The exhibit opened earlier this month and will be on display until May 26. Toronto native Anita Kunz created these portraits during lockdown amidst the COVID pandemic.
The Daily Heller reviews “Original Sisters”
Kunz has long deserved the distinction of leader and master as a conceptual (satiric and editorial) artist/illustrator. With this latest exhibition and the book on which it is based, she has become elevated into a higher realm of both intellectual and expressive power. Visiting the Norman Rockwell Museum’s galleries, seeing the precise rows of over 200 of her forgotten “Original Sisters,” one will doubtless be rendered speechless by the beauty, gravity, intelligence and passion in each of these works.
NRM Presents Heartwarming Exhibition Norman Rockwell: Home for the Holidays Now on View
Stockbridge, Mass. --November 14, 2024--The Norman Rockwell Museum is thrilled to announce its seasonal exhibition, Norman Rockwell: Home for the Holidays, running through February 23, 2025. This heartwarming collection showcases the artist’s iconic holiday-themed works, capturing the spirit and warmth of American life across various festive occasions—from Valentine’s Day and Independence Day to Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s.
Magazeum features “Original Sisters”
Norman Rockwell Museum is the first American museum, and just the third venue worldwide, to present original portraits from Kunz’s Original Sister series. Approximately 240 Sister portraits will be on view at the Museum, accompanied by brief written profiles compiled by the artist.
NRM and Berkshire Immigrant Center host Naturalization Ceremony Celebrating New American Citizens
Stockbridge, MA – October 28, 2024 – Norman Rockwell Museum served as a fitting backdrop for a naturalization ceremony held in the Museum’s galleries. In a standing-room-only event, 28 individuals from 20 different countries, including Bhutan, Brazil, El Salvador, Haiti, Iraq, Liberia, Russia, Ukraine, and other nations, took the solemn Oath of Allegiance, officially becoming citizens of the United States.
The Berkshire Eagle features “Unity Project”
STOCKBRIDGE — As the 2024 election season enters its final moments, you can inspire friends, family, neighbors and strangers to cast a ballot with one of six digital get-the-vote-out campaign posters courtesy of The Unity Project 2024.
Rural Intelligence Reviews “Anita Kunz: Original Sisters”
History pop quiz: Can you name the leader of the largest pirate fleet in history? Who was the first person to fly solo, non-stop, from England to North America, a more difficult trip than Charles Lindbergh’s eastbound flight? What about the youngest playwright to win a New York Drama Critics’ Circle award, or the author of the first English language autobiography? The feats themselves may be entirely unknown to you, and the commonality between each may surprise you: All of these individuals were women. No, it isn’t Women’s History Month. Not yet...
The Daily Heller features “Anita Kunz: Original Sisters”
Toronto-based Anita Kunz has employed a distinct contemporary classical style of painting to create some caustic caricature and satire of the late 20th and 21st centuries (though to see her, you wouldn’t know she’s been working as long as she has). Her assignments as an editorial illustrator, however, like many of her generation, have not been consistent. So, she’s turned inward and outward to find inspiration for current projects.