HOME, April 2020
What makes home? Steamroller/ Mixed Media Community Project developed by MCLA Professor Melanie Mowinski, Norman Rockwell Museum Chief Educator Mary Berle and  powered by MCLA advanced design students and the Elephant Rock Foundation

Informed by Current Conditions
With the rapid change to social distancing and stay at home orders across our nation and the world to stop the spread of Covid-19 the question what makes home takes on fresh meaning. This community project was initially designed to be completed at the Museum, at MCLA, in classrooms, and community centers across the Berkshires and with groups of people working in conversation and close proximity to one another. We’ve pivoted with rapidly changing conditions. Now participants will work from home using video tutorials produced by students to guide their work.

Contribute a linoleum block for steamroller printing, or make a drawing or written reflection on the meaning of home in April 2020 for incorporation into a mural. Each participant will create a small linoleum cut matrix that will be printed as part of larger collection of linoleum matrixes at the big steamroller event at the Norman Rockwell Museum. (Original date was May 2, 2020. We will still aim for that and we will reschedule if necessary.)

This sign-up will reserve your linoleum, allow the organizers to be in touch to schedule your pick-up of materials, and track participants!