Educators looking for tools to provide their students with meaningful connections to social justice and human rights will find compelling visual and interactive content in the Norman Rockwell Museum’s Virtual Exhibition, “Imagining Freedom”.
Natalie Johnson, educator
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Norman Rockwell Museum has been creating new online ways for our visitors to discover our extensive collections of art, historical objects, classroom activities, and scholarship.
We are thrilled to now have curated experiences that collect related images, photography, video, audio and history relating to the Museum’s renowned collection of Norman Rockwell’s original paintings, his Stockbridge Studio, as well as the Museum’s vast collection of illustration art. Enjoy your Virtual Museum!
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.
Latest Media
DRAWING LIFE with Illustrators from Norman Rockwell’s Studio
Wonder. Storytelling. Human Connection. From a converted carriage barn on South Street in Stockbridge, MA, Norman Rockwell painted his way into the hearts and lives of people around the world. In this Studio—his last and “best yet”—Rockwell’s imaginative artistry established a legacy of creativity that continues to inspire artists and visitors alike. Today, illustration art is everywhere: books and graphic novels, editorials and advertising, video games and the metaverse, posters, comics, clothing, and tattoos.
A 14 month series of online and on-demand programs features leading illustrators from across the United States demonstrating their craft and discussing ways in which published illustration reflects and shapes society and advances social good.
SYMPOSIUM Illustration, Puppetry, and American Popular Culture:
The Art and Legacy of Tony Sarg
Recorded: October 20 through 21, 2023 LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM >
The Illustrator’s Studio Podcast Learn More>
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.
The Norman Rockwell Museum would like to again thank the many supporters and sponsors of ProjectNORMAN, including:
National Historical Publications and Records Commission; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Save America’s Treasures; National Endowment for the Arts; National Endowment for the Humanities; Henry Luce Foundation; Town of Stockbridge Community Preservation.
The Norman Rockwell Museum would like to thank the following supporters and sponsors of the Museum’s digital presence:
Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation; Dr. Robert C. & Tina Sohn Foundation; Elephant Rock Foundation, and Berkshire Bank