Imprinted

Illustration has been at the forefront of significant defining events in the United States, from the Civil War and Reconstruction Era to the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s and today. Imprinted: Illustrating Race, published by the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA, examines the role of published images in shaping attitudes toward race and culture over the course of more than three centuries. Essays by noted authors, scholars, curators, and artists...
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Illustration has been at the forefront of significant defining events in the United States, from the Civil War and Reconstruction Era to the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s and today. Imprinted: Illustrating Race, published by the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA, examines the role of published images in shaping attitudes toward race and culture over the course of more than three centuries. Essays by noted authors, scholars, curators, and artists trace prolific stereotypical representations of race circulated through mass publication, and explore the efforts of twentieth and twenty-first century artists to shift the cultural narrative, emphasizing full agency and emphasis equity for all. A related exhibition is co-curated by University of Delaware Professor of Visual Communications and guest Curator Robyn Phillips- Pendleton, who has written and spoken widely on the theme of this topic, and by Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, the Norman Rockwell Museum's Deputy Director/Chief Curator. We have been joined by a distinguished National Exhibition Advisory Board of ten academic scholars, curators, and artists with expertise related to the focus of the book and exhibition's thesis. Robyn Phillips-Pendleton; Stephanie Haboush Plunkett; Michele Bogart, Ph.D.; Heather Campbell Coyle, Ph.D.; Karen Fang, Ph.D.; William H. Foster III; Colette Gaiter; Nancy Goldstein; Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Ph.D.; Theresa Leininger-Miller, Ph.D.,; Andrea Davis Pinkney; Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Ph.D. have contributed essays on a range of notable themes relating to illustration and perceptions of race.