Hello!

Hello, Norman Rockwell Museum enthusiasts! My name is Angela and I’m interning with the Education Department at the Museum this summer. I’m the new kid on the block—I just started work on Tuesday and, now that I have my very own locker and gave my first official introduction (for the Pneuma Brass Quintet, who gave a fantastic performance in the main gallery on Thursday evening as part of our summer American Storytellers series), I feel like I’m settling in.

I’ve been a fan Norman Rockwell for just about my whole life—I discovered his paintings in a giant (or at least it seemed so at the time) coffee table book that my grandma had proudly displayed in her home. I would lie on her white-carpeted floor paging through the oversized images, a tradition that had been passed down to me by my older cousins. I developed a reverence for Rockwell and a genuine interest in the stories he paints that stayed with me as I became engrossed in U.S. History in high school and declared an Art History and American Studies double major in college. I’ll be starting my senior year in the fall (eek!) and I know that, somehow, those hours spent studying Rockwell’s images of American life have carried me through to where I am today.

I'm so happy to be here and I encourage you to leave comments for me! You can also reach me at apratt@nrm.org. Happy Fourth of July!