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Growing up MAD – Talk with gallery viewing and online via Zoom

Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Museum’s Covered Terrace, with a cash bar.
Special Gallery Viewing: 5-6pm
Program: 6:pm


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PRICE:
Members free
$25 Program with special gallery viewing.
$10 Program only
$10 Online via Zoom only

A conversation about MAD Magazine’s impact on artists and writers working today. Join cartoonist, illustrator, and performer Emily Flake and cartoonist and comedian Jason Chatfield for a lively program exploring the impact MAD magazine has had on a younger generation of artists and writers. Together Flake and Chatfield will share stories about their experiences reading MAD as kids and later what it was like to be contributors to this influential and beloved magazine. The presenters will delve into some of their favorite MAD signature features including Spy vs. Spy, MAD Fold-ins, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, the Marginals, and The Strip Club. The conversation will also trace the importance of MAD as a space for cultural critique and irreverent satire that continues to inspire their work today.

Artist Workshop: Joke in a Box with Emily Flake

Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United States

90-minute workshop
Price: Members free. Free with Museum Admission

Materials provided. 

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An introduction to the art of gag cartooning, led by New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake. In this all-ages workshop, participants will be introduced to exercises meant to generate ideas, spark jokes, and inspire cartoons in the single-panel format. All drawing skill levels (including “none”) are welcome; art technical guidance will be provided.

Recurring

Totally MAD! Artmaking Activities (every Saturday thru 8/31)

Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Price: Free with Museum Admission

Join us to make your own art inspired by the art and antics of MAD Magazine! Inspired by the progressive, provocative, and always playful MAD magazine, join us for drop-in art-making every Saturday, this summer. Projects will highlight different aspects of MAD magazine, featuring recurring characters, comic strips, bits, and other highlights of its history through drawing, collage, and more.

Curator Tour: Norman Rockwell: Illustrating Humor

Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Price: $10 members, $20 public - Museum admission required
Duration: 40 minutes

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Join Jane Dini, Curator of Exhibitions and Curator of Norman Rockwell: Illustrating Humor for a tour of a new thematic exhibition organized in conjunction with What Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine. Exploring a range of Rockwell works drawn from the collection, this exhibition examines how the artist used humor to reveal the humanity and emotional life of his subjects. Dini will discuss the works on view and describe how Rockwell was a master humorist who could depict a funny story in a single frame better than any illustrator of his day.

Curator Tour: Rockwell & Humor

Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Price: $10 members, $20 public - Museum admission required
Duration: 40 minutes

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Join Jane Dini, Curator of Exhibitions and Curator of Norman Rockwell: Illustrating Humor for a tour of a new thematic exhibition organized in conjunction with What Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine. Exploring a range of Rockwell works drawn from the collection, this exhibition examines how the artist used humor to reveal the humanity and emotional life of his subjects. Dini will discuss the works on view and describe how Rockwell was a master humorist who could depict a funny story in a single frame better than any illustrator of his day.

My Nephew Jamie – Film screening and discussion

Norman Rockwell Museum Terrace Café 9 Glendale Rd/Rte 183, Stockbridge, United States

Museum’s Covered Terrace, with a cash bar.
Special Gallery Viewing: 5-6pm
Program: 6:pm

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PRICE:
Members free
$25 Program with special gallery viewing.
$10 Program only

Artist James Warhola illustrated over 300 Sci-Fi book covers, created the wildly popular Garbage Pail Kids card series, and produced covers and illustrations for MAD Magazine. His work is included in the new exhibition: What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine. Warhola is also the author and illustrator of several children’s picture books including ”Uncle Andy’s: A Faabbbulous Visit with Andy Warhol.” James Warhola’s career as an illustrator and his relationship with his famous uncle, the ever-elusive Pop artist Andy Warhol, are the subjects of a yet-to-be released documentary film by Bonnie Bien.

The Art of MAD – Talk with gallery viewing and also online via Zoom

Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Museum’s Covered Terrace, with a cash bar.
Special Gallery Viewing: 5-6pm
Program: 6:pm

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PRICE:
Members free
$25 Program with special gallery viewing.
$10 Program only
$10 Online via Zoom only

Join Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, co-curator of What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine for an illustrated lecture that chronicles the history of MAD Magazine and the legendary artists, art directors, and writers who made MAD such a success. Plunkett will discuss highlights from over 250 original illustrations and cartoons on view; created by MAD’s “Usual Gang of Idiots” and from a younger generation of MAD creators. Learn more about the origins of MAD’s clueless, but loveable mascot Alfred E. Neuman and MAD’s parodies of Norman Rockwell illustrations. In addition to the iconic covers, Plunkett will also discuss MAD’s signature features such as Spy vs. Spy, Fold-ins, caricatures and MAD’s satirical send-ups of politics, parodies of movies, television, and brand-name advertisements.

MAD at Night – Talk, Artmaking, & Reception

Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Light snacks and soft drinks provided; cash bar.

Price:
Members free.
$35, includes Museum admission

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A special evening program celebrating all things MAD. Join co-curators Stephanie Haboush Plunkett and Steve Brodner for an introduction to What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine with a discussion on the organization of the show and select highlights. Rediscover the magazine that defined a generation or see it for the first time.

Norman Rockwell Museum in collaboration with Tanglewood Learning Institute

Linde Center for Music and Learning 3 West Hawthorne Road, Lenox, United States

NOTE: This program takes place at Tanglwewood in Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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Price:
Tickets: $15 Adults
Kids are free

Join Hip Hop and theater artist Baba Israel, Illustrator Louis Henry Mitchell, Jazz and electronic artist Sean Nowell, Boston Symphony Orchestra percussionist Will Hudgins, and host Rebecca Sheir for an adventure through visual art, storytelling and music. In this interactive program, participants will help shape the creative direction of a series of musical improvisations that create the score for Mitchell’s original illustrations and storytelling performance.  The music will combine live instruments, wind and mallet synths, live looping and beatbox. Baba Israel will take audience input, words, and ideas to help shape Mitchell’s improvised drawings of a character whose unique features and storyline will evolve in real time guided by the audience's feedback.  Audience members will be invited to learn to beatbox, play with vocal fx, trigger samples and synths and contribute their voices and sounds to the loops and music created. No musical experience needed just a sense of curiosity and a celebration of our collective imagination.

6th Annual Art of Brewing

Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd / Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, United States

Tickets: $30 for members, $40 for not-yet-members
Each ticket buyer receives 10 drink tickets to redeem for sample pours.


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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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