Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms Opens at Museum of Fine Arts Houston Texas
Museum of Fine Arts December 15, 2019 –March 22, 2020 1001 Bissonnet Houston, Texas 77005 (713) 639-7300 www.mfah.org
Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms Closes at Museum of Fine Arts Houston Texas
Museum of Fine Arts December 15, 2019 –March 22, 2020 1001 Bissonnet Houston, Texas 77005 (713) 639-7300 www.mfah.org
Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom Opens at the Denver Art Museum
Denver Art Museum May 3 - August 23, 2020 100 W 14th Avenue Pkwy Denver, CO 80204 (713) 639-7300 www.denverartmuseum.org
Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom Closes at the Denver Art Museum
Denver Art Museum May 3 - August 23, 2020 100 W 14th Avenue Pkwy Denver, CO 80204 (713) 639-7300 www.denverartmuseum.org
Imagining Freedom opens at Norman Rockwell Museum
Norman Rockwell Museum Stockbridge, MA October 17, 2020 – January 17, 2021 Read more...
Imagining Freedom Virtual Gala
Host or join a Gala roundtable with your friends and family, together with a special guest — one of the contemporary illustrators whose work is featured in the exhibition, and support the Museum we all love.
Imagining Freedom: Curator Preview
Join exhibition curators James J. Kimble and Stephanie Haboush Plunkett for a virtual conversation about Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom. Freedom as an aspirational idea and its realities through American history will be discussed through the art and artifacts on view.
Exploring the Four Freedoms
Join three Imagining Freedom catalogue authors – outstanding scholars who will bring little known aspects of the Four Freedoms and Rockwell’s famed paintings into view. What did these stand for in their time? How did they shape perception and generate support for the war effort? Who were they speaking to and who was left out? What do they mean to us today? Commentators include D.B. Dowd, Professor of Art and American Culture Studies, Washington University in St. Louis; James McCabe, Chief Collections Manager, Henry Ford Museum; and others.
Election Day!
Norman Rockwell Museum steps into the public square in a new way with a unification project in support of democracy—a rally to vote campaign highlighting original concepts by six leading contemporary illustrators commissioned by the Museum to create motivational art in the great illustrated poster tradition.
Embedded: Illustrators and the Armed Forces
Join political illustrator Victor Charles Juhasz and other combat artists who will discuss their experiences as imbedded illustrators across the branches of the armed forces and the power of art to tell personal stories. The history of artist’s working in the field, from the American Civil War to America’s more recent engagement in the Middle East, will be explored.
Freedom from Want: Food Security and Environmental Health
How can society meet the needs of all Americans for food sustainability, shelter, and global health? Join a conversation with noted scholars and artists to explore the history of need in our nation and new strategies that are being developed to meet the challenges. Panelists to be announced.
Freedom v Fear: A History of Anti-Fascist Art
Author and illustration and design historian Steven Heller will explore how graphic symbols through time endure and influence life—for good and evil—for generations. A nuanced examination of the most powerful symbol was examined in his recent book, The Swastika and Symbols of Hate. Steven Heller has written extensively on and design/illustration. For thirty-three years he was art director at The New York Times, originally on the OpEd Page and for many years with the New York Times Book Review. Currently, he is co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author Department and writes the Visuals column for the New York Times Book Review. He also writes The Daily Heller for Print magazine.
