Draw inspiration from the Famous Artists School Cartoon Course! Creative Director of Character Design for Sesame Workshop, Louis Henry Mitchell walks us through elements of chapter one of the course - The Cartoon Head. Pick up a pencil, grab a piece of paper and join in!
Illustrator Ryan Hartley Smith and NRM Chief Curator Stephanie Haboush Plunkett host this lively talk about the art of cartoons and comics. The discussion focuses on the dramatic evolution of the field and the resulting changes in how cartooning is taught –from the introduction of the popular Famous Artists Cartoon Course, in 1956, to the diverse stylistic and storytelling approaches of our time.
What did “famous” cartoonists Al Capp, Whitney Darrow, Barney Tobey, Dick Cavalli, Willard Mullin, Rube Goldberg, and Harry Haenigsen have in common? They were all celebrated visual humorists in the mid-twentieth century and faculty of the Famous Artists Cartoon Course—a popular correspondence course launched in the 1950s that was designed to teach artists to be funny.
Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women. To create the series, award-winning illustrator Anita Kunz carefully researched, wrote about, and portrayed each subject, sometimes compiling scant available information to establish a more complete picture.
Artist Anita Kunz shares stories of her subjects, including Josephine Baker, Joan of Arc, Greta Thunberg at the Norman Rockwell Museum. Show closes May 26.
