Special DART raffle to
Join Peggy for a preview of
Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera at the Brooklyn Museum
Thursday, November 18, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm

Left: Photograph and art from Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera. Right: Reference photo for Boy in a Dining Car, 1946. (Photo montage by Ron Schick), courtesy Little, Brown.

Beginning in the late 1930s, Norman Rockwell adopted photography as a tool to bring his illustration ideas to life. Working as a director, Rockwell staged his photographs, orchestrating every detail.

These photographs were the focus of a recently completed two-year project at the Norman Rockwell Museum that preserved and digitized almost 20,000 negatives. Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera presents a selection of the photographs alongside his paintings, drawings, and related tear sheets to offer a look at the artist's working process. Curators Ron Schick and Sharon Matt Atkins will be on hand to answer questions. Refreshments will be served.

The first 10 replies to this post received by midnight on Sunday, November 14th, with subject: DART Raffle, will be placed in a box for a blind raffle during a party at DART’s new office on East 32^nd Street.
The winner will be announced Monday, November 15, 2010.

But first, tonight, after the AI-AP launch party, revelers are invited to celebrate just a little more: The artists of the Pencil Factory studios invite you to an afterparty in their Greenpoint, Brooklyn stomping grounds to honor colleague Sam Weber, who created this year’s American Illustration cover (below).

The party is being held at Veronica People's Club, at 105 Franklin Street (at Greenpoint Avenue). Ted McGrath (who created the AI 27 cover) and Zach O’Hora will be DJ-in’ into the wee hours.
Directions according to Ted: Hail a cab. Tell driver to go to Greenpoint and Franklin in Greenpoint. Via subway: L to Bedford Ave, G to Greenpoint.