Programs

Illustration Partnership Network

The Rockwell Center’s goal is to foster partnership and collaboration with museums, universities and libraries with significant collections and focus on the illustration arts, forming a national network of institutions dedicated to presentation, preservation and scholarship of visual communication art. This network will give prominence to this art form, invite discourse and provide scholars with access to the nation’s richest holdings of illustration collections and publishing.

Illustration Art Digital Image Network and Information Archive 

The Rockwell Center and its Web site will become the primary repository for networked information and research on illustration art collections.

Rockwell Scholars’ Research Program

The Rockwell Center will support research in the field of illustration and visual studies. Senior scholars and advanced graduate students are invited to apply for Rockwell Scholars’ fellowships. Working with art, library and studio collections at the Norman Rockwell Museum and illustration collections nationwide, scholars will study the relationship of illustration art to popular culture, social history, mass media, formal art history and other disciplines. 

Norman Rockwell Archives and ProjectNORMAN

ProjectNORMAN (New Online Rockwell Media Art and Archive Network), a ten-year, comprehensive online publishing project to preserve, catalogue, computerize and digitize its collection of original artworks, and over 150,000 archival objects, making them accessible to researchers, was begun in 2003.