Arts Council Director to speak at Artel Gallery

Artel Gallery continues its educational lecture series, Art Explorations, on Wednesday, April 26 with a presentation by Paul Berg, Executive Director of the Arts Council of Northwest Florida. The informal talk, entitled aoeArts for Tomorrow,a will involve a look ahead at the future of the arts in Escambia County, including arts education and plans for public art.

Doors open at 5 p.m. and the lecture begins promptly at 5:30 p.m. A question and answer period will follow the one hour long presentation. Light refreshments will be served. Art Explorations lectures are free and open to the public.

Artel is a not-for-profit educational gallery providing a venue for experimental, cutting edge art. Located at 505 South Adams Street in Seville Square, the gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm. For more information call 850 432-3080. Rockwell on display until July 1 at PMA

Pensacola Museum of Art is showing Norman Rockwell in the 1940's: A View of the American Homefront.

Times of the exhibit are Tuesday Friday, 10 a.m. 5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon-5 p.m.

Admission is $5 for adults and $2 for students/active duty military.

The Pensacola Museum of Art presents "Norman Rockwell in the 1940s:A View of the American Homefront" which opened April 8 and will be on display through July 1. This exhibition of over 40 Norman Rockwell Illustrations is organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and sponsored locally by the Pensacola Museum of Art Guild. Norman Rockwell's name and likeness are licensed by Norman Rockwell Licensing, Niles IL.

Many of Norman Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post covers during the 1940s were inspired by life on the American homefront during World War II. Rockwell's powerful Four Freedoms, inspired by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's famous War-time speech, the unforgettable Rosie the Riveter, exuberant Homecoming Soldier, and hapless but lovable G.I. Willie Gillis are among the many memorable images contained within this exhibition of original tearsheets featuring fortyfour Rockwell illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post.

Through his illustrations, Norman Rockwell created images that portrayed everyday images yet within an American context. His ability to capture deeper meanings in these everyday images, especially while America was at war in the 1940's, still draws in audiences today.

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