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The New Woman in American Popular Culture
Thursday, August 30
5:30 p.m.

Author and Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies Fellow Barbara Tepa Lupack, Ph.D., will explore the role of magazine illustration and editorial/political cartoons in defining and popularizing the notion of the “New Woman” of the turn of the twentieth century, whose emergence in fashion, art, and society helped to shape the careers of such female illustrators as Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Rose O’Neill, Elizabeth Shippen Green, and Violet Oakley. The work of these and others offer surprising insights into the age and culture, especially in the wake of the world war and the advent of the fight for women’s suffrage. The author or editor of more than 25 books, Dr. Lupack is former Academic Dean and Professor of English at SUNY Rochester, and is currently a New York State Public Scholar. Free for Museum members, or included with Museum admission.

Remember, there are always Thursday Evening Drop-In Programs for all children ages 5 and up. Parents and caregivers can enjoy our Thursday evening programs while their children are engaged in creative art and gallery activities inspired by the works on view. Children’s program is complimentary with adult admission to the evening program.

 

THURSDAY EVENING LECTURE AND PERFORMANCE SERIES
The Narrative Tradition
Thursdays, July 5, 12, 19, 26, August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

Enjoy this engaging series of talks and performances inspired by our current exhibition and the persuasive power of visual imagery in its many forms. Free for Museum members, or included with Museum admission.

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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