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Virtual Symposium: The Usual Gang of Idiots and Other Suspects: MAD Magazine and American Humor

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Virtual Program

Friday, October 18 from 6pm to 8pm
Saturday, October 19 from 10am to 3:30pm
One ticket is good for both days.


Members: $25
Non-Members:  $35
College Students: $10

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Program Overview:

Join us for this lively, in-depth exploration of the art, history, and cultural relevance of MAD—the long-running humor magazine and counter-culture touchstone that has attracted readers and spoken truth to power for more than seven decades. The evolution of MAD’s unique brand of subversive humor and its impact will be discussed by the illustrators, cartoonists, editors, writers, historians, and collectors whose deep knowledge of the subject and personal contributions have sustained the magazine’s notable legacy.

The program is organized by the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies in conjunction with What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine at the Norman Rockwell Museum, on view until October 27, 2024.

Virtual Program: Coming of Age with MAD

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

*Please note: This is a online virtual event held on Zoom. We will not be broadcasting this event at the Museum.

TICKETS
$10, Members free
Join Steve Brodner, co-curator of What, Me Worry?: the Art and Humor of  MAD Magazine for an illustrated talk about political satire, the art of caricature and Brodner’s reflections on his formative experience growing up reading MAD magazine. The presentation will touch on the many ways MAD Magazine with its rich mix of satire, anti-establishment critique, and irreverent humor helped shape the ethos of an entire generation and set Brodner on his path to becoming one of the nation’s foremost political cartoonists.

Virtual Program: Inheriting the Legacy: A Conversation with The Rockwell Family

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Celebrating Norman Rockwell's Birthday!

Price: $10 per person | Members Free

Please note: we will simulcast this virtual program at the Museum.  Access to the simulcast is free with admission.

On the 130th anniversary of Norman Rockwell’s birth, members of the Rockwell family will come together to share personal reflections on Rockwell’s art and to consider the diverse ways that their lives and creative practice have been impacted by the legacy that they have inherited.

Online Symposium: Illustration, Puppetry, and American Popular Culture: The Art and Legacy of Tony Sarg (Day 2)

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Zoom Webinar (online)
Saturday, October 21, 2023 – 10am to 3pm

Organized by the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and the American Theater for Puppetry Arts in Austerlitz, New York, this interdisciplinary symposium brings together artists, puppeteers, and scholars from across the humanities to explore the life, art and adventures of Tony Sarg (1880-1942), the charismatic illustrator, designer, puppeteer, and entrepreneur whose prolific career sheds light on the creative imagination and the ability of artists to inspire a collective sense of wonder and joy.

Online Symposium: Illustration, Puppetry, and American Popular Culture: The Art and Legacy of Tony Sarg (Day 1)

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Zoom Webinar (online)
Friday, October 20, 2023 – 7pm to 8:30pm

Organized by the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and the American Theater for Puppetry Arts in Austerlitz, New York, this interdisciplinary symposium brings together artists, puppeteers, and scholars from across the humanities to explore the life, art and adventures of Tony Sarg (1880-1942), the charismatic illustrator, designer, puppeteer, and entrepreneur whose prolific career sheds light on the creative imagination and the ability of artists to inspire a collective sense of wonder and joy.

The Time We Spend with Words: A Conversation with Bascove & Steven Heller

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

An engaging conversation with Bascove, who will share thoughts on her art, career, and lifelong love of literature with author, art director, and illustration/graphic design historian Steve Heller.

Tickets: $10, free for members

Zoom, Draw & Read with Jan Brett! (Via Zoom)

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Join us for a live art activity with illustrator Jan Brett during this lively, interactive online program. The artist will read Cozy and lead an art activity inspired by her beloved characters. Bring your pencil, paper, and your questions along – a conversation with Jan will follow!

VIRTUAL PROGRAM – Martin Luther King Jr Day – Imprinted: Illustrating Race

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

FREE 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.

ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: Enchanted: Mythology and Fairy Tales

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Saturday, 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

ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: Enchanted: Mythology and Fairy Tales – Keynote Program

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Friday, 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

Tuesday Nights: Meet the Illustrator Series – Gary Gianni

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Tuesday 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.

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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 States

Tuesday 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.

RSVP


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 – Bob Eggleton

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Tuesday 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.

RSVP


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 States

Tuesday 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

Tuesday Nights: Meet the Illustrator Series – Scott Gustafson

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Tuesday 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.

RSVP


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 Artist Series – Tyler Jacobson

Virtual Norman Rockwell Museum Virtual Museum, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Tuesday 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.

RSVP


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 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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