Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of North Carolina Wilmington is organizing a day trip to the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh to see American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Tickets are $75 for OLLI members and $105 for non-members, which includes transportation, exhibit fee and lunch at the museum.

The group will travel by coach bus to the newly renovated N.C. Museum of Art to see the highly anticipated Rockwell exhibition in the museum's new wing.

The nation's premier illustrator for more than six decades, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was the people's painter, depicting scenes from American life for the covers and pages of the most prominent publications. Rockwell is most recognized for his illustrations featured on the covers of The Saturday Evening Post from 1916 to 1963. This important exhibition will offer a multidimensional view of America across the 20th century, as seen through Rockwell's narrative images, which continue to have a singular impact today.

American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell traces the evolution of Rockwell's art and iconography throughout his career-from carefully choreographed reflections on childhood innocence in such paintings as Day in the Life of a Little Girl (1952) to powerful, consciousness-raising images for Look in the 1960s, documenting the traumatic realities of desegregation in the South. Rockwell's artistic contributions and the impact of his images on American popular culture are explored within the context of his life and times through in-depth exhibition commentary, a decade-by-decade installation of 40 original works of art, and a complete set of 323 Saturday Evening Post cover tear sheets, spanning 47 years. The exhibition travels to 12 national venues through 2013.

The registration deadline for the OLLI trip is Monday, Jan. 17. For more information about the trip or about membership in OLLI, go online to www.uncw.edu/olli or call 962-3195. To register online for the trip, click here.

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Dana Fischetti, media relations manager, 910.508.3127 or fischettid@uncw.edu