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ROCKWELL CENTER TALK AND BOOK PARTY
Stick Figures: Drawing as Human Practice by D.B. Dowd
Saturday, December 15 at 5 p.m.

Join author, illustrator, and theorist D.B. Dowd for an expansive look into the practice of drawing that resets the terms of an ancient activity and embraces drawing as a communicative practice and process for everyone. Dowd’s recent book, Stick Figures: Drawing as a Human Practice, is published by Spartan Holiday Books and the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies. He is Senior Fellow of the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies Society of Fellows Program, and Professor of Art & American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where he serves as the Faculty Director of the D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library—renamed in his honor in 2016. A reception and booksigning will follow. Free for Museum members, or included with Museum admission. Free for children 18 and under. Program only, $10.

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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