SAVE THE DATE
Saturday Night
June 8, 2024
Ready for some MAD Fun?
You won’t want to miss the MAD Bash
celebrating this summer’s most fun and irreverent exhibition
What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine.
Saturday night, June 8, 2024
6—10:34 pm
5 pm early access for Sponsors and Alfred’s VIP ticket buyers!
Art, music, comedy, festive nosh & libations, and a lot of laughs, all benefiting the Museum.
Mingle with some of MAD’s gang—usual and unusual idiots; aka – artists, illustrators, comic creators, writers, collectors, and co-curator/satirical illustrator Steve Brodner.
Laugh with comedian Kevin Bartini, (“Billy Jones” on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; The Daily Show, The Colbert Report; comedy writer for HBO, Comedy Central, and MSNBC; and Berkshire grown!)
MAD & RAD Photo Ops with Berkshire Photo Booth, and some other cheeky surprises. MADly creative Catering by Kate Baldwin.
DANCE or make fun of others dancing to the tunes of BFG ! ! #*%!
Wear your MAD, festive, outrageous party attire… or not; but wear something!
First dibs on New MAD MERCH & hard-to-find collectibles !!!!!!!
Your MAD BASH planners:
A.F. Barbera, Alexander Brown, Tim Butterworth, Jen Capala, Ellen Casey Boyd, Richard Cappellazzo, Alice Carter, Bob & Lynne Horvath, Steph Iverson, Alison Lotto, Kim Ruffing, Suzannah VanSchaick, & Taylor Williams
MAD BASH Underwriters:
George Bain, Bob & Lynne Horvath, Kim & Tom Ruffing, David Schwartz & Nan Thompson, Joe Wheaton, Peter Chase Williams
MAD Bash Tickets
5 p.m. Early Access Tickets
Exhibition preview plus mix-and-mingle with co-curators and MAD artists! Choose from four supporting ticket options:
Mad About MAD Lead Sponsor $10,000
10 Bash Tickets; exhibition sponsor listing in NRM/MAD Exhibition Magazine* and on panel in galleries.* Signed copy of NRM/MAD Magazine. *if confirmed by May 2
Madly Snappy Supporter $5,000
4 Bash Tickets and a signed NRM/MAD Exhibition Magazine
MAD Bash Sponsor $2500
2 Bash Tickets and an NRM/MAD Exhibition Magazine
Alfred’s VIPs $500
1 Bash Ticket with full unadulterated access to the evening’s activities
Usual Gang Tickets $250
6 pm admission to the Bash, comic performance at 7:30, and the dance party!
Fold Me In Dance Party $125
8 pm admission for laughter, irreverence, and dancing with BFG.
MAD exhibition galleries will be open until 8:30 pm
RSVP:
Or call 413-931-2265
Or mail your check to Norman Rockwell Museum, PO Box 308, Stockbridge, MA 01262
Images: above– Richard Williams, Alfred E. Neuman & Norman Rockwell, 2002. Cover illustration for Mad Art: A Visual Celebration of MAD Magazine and the Idiots Who Create It (Watson Guptill, 2002) | Norman Mingo, Help Stamp Out Mad, 1963. #78. James Halperin Collection, Courtesy of Heritage Auctions, HA.com. MAD and all related elements ™ & © E.C. Publications. Courtesy of DC. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.