Sequential Art as Autobiographical Outlet for Everyone

By Robert Young, grad student MICA's MFA Illustration Practice, Fall 2013,  Critical Seminar Final Paper.   In 1954, the psychiatrist Frederic Wertham published a book called Seduction of the Innocent. This book described comic books as a detrimental element in American culture that lead to delinquency and stunted the literacy of American youth.  His book and its

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Degrees of Humanity: Anthropomorphism and its development in children’s book illustration

By Megan Jones, grad student MICA's MFA Illustration Practice, Fall 2013, Critical Seminar Final Paper.   Everyone at one point or another in their lifetime has talked to their pet as if it was a person. We name them, groom them, let them live in our homes, and sometimes pamper them as if they were our children. As human

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Winsor McCay: About Fame and the Enjoyment of Art

By Diana Flores Blazquez, grad student MICA's MFA Illustration Practice, Fall 2013, Critical Seminar Final Paper.   Sometimes our work is the way we find to explore fantasy lives and unimaginable worlds. Artists can have a realistic grounded discourse that can express whatever they want to share with the world, but there is always the possibility and

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Modern Comics: The Birth and Evolution of a New Medium of Storytelling

By Danny Torres, grad student MICA's MFA Illustration Practice, Fall 2013 Critical Seminar Final Paper. Pictorial images as a form of communication have existed since the dawn of man, from the cave paintings in Lascaux, to Egyptian hieroglyphics,the stone inscriptions of Mesoamerica.  Sequential narrative is nothing new. This paper will provide an overview of the rise and impact

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Norman Rockwell Museum

 

Hours

Norman Rockwell Museum is Open 7 days a week year-round

May – October and holidays:

open daily: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursdays: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. (July/August 2015)
Rockwell’s Studio open May through October.

November – April: open daily:

Weekdays: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Weekends and holidays: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Holiday Closings:

The Museum is Closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day

 

 

 

Admission

Members: FREE
Adults: $18.00
Seniors (65+): $17.00
College students with ID: $10.00
Children/teens 6 — 18: $6.00
Children 5 and under: FREE

Official Museum Website

www.nrm.org

 

 

 

Directions

Norman Rockwell Museum
9 Route 183
Stockbridge, MA 01262

413-298-4100 x 221

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