# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Artist Tour: I SPY! Walter Wick’s Hidden Wonders
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 18 Jul, 2025 at 01:00 pm
- **Event Description**: EVENT SOLD OUT

Explore the fascinating new exhibition, I SPY! Walter Wick’s Hidden Wonders, with the artist himself and NRM Chief Curator Stephanie Haboush Plunkett. Hear how Wick’s early childhood love of play and his early career as a studio photographer led to his breakthrough as a children’s book illustrator at age 38. Wick will reveal his step-by-step process of photographing elaborate arrangements of objects or dioramas he creates by hand. Learn why Wick considers his process to be one of building a picture rather than simply taking a photograph. Plunkett will expand the discussion of Wick’s work in relation to the history of illustration and to Norman Rockwell’s photographic illustration Closing a Summer Cottage (1957) also on view in the exhibition. 

NRM Shop will be open and Walter Wick will be available to sign books after the program. Limited space: reservations recommended

 

About Walter Wick
Walter Wick is the photographic illustrator of the I SPY series, and the author/illustrator of the Can You See What I See? series. Together, they have more than forty-five million copies in print and are translated into more than 10 languages. He is also the author and photographer of the award winning A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder, and Walter Wick’s Optical Tricks, a book of photographic illusions.

After graduating from Paier College of Art, he furthered his technical skills as a commercial photographer in Hartford, Connecticut before starting his own studio in New York City. Clients included such magazines as Psychology Today, Discover, and Newsweek. During this period he also invented many photographic puzzles for Games Magazine.

You can see Mr. Wick’s work up close at numerous museums around the United States where he is often invited to exhibit his amazing photography and hand-built model sets for his search-and-find masterpieces. Mr. Wick lives in Miami Beach, Florida, with his wife, Linda. He continues his love for tinkering, photography, and creating picture books at his studio in the Wynwood arts district of Miami.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/glendale/artist-tour-i-spy-walter-wick’s-hidden-wonders/200028184107603
- **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 17

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.nrm.org/events/artist-tour-i-spy-walter-wicks-hidden-wonders/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=glendale-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Glendale
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 9 Glendale Rd / Route 183 , Stockbridge, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01262
- **lat**: 42.28853
- **long**: -73.33587
- **full address**: 9 Glendale Rd / Route 183 , Stockbridge, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01262, 9 Glendale Rd, Glendale, MA 01229-7702, United States

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- **organizer**: Norman Rockwell Museum (https://allevents.in/org/norman-rockwell-museum/25990681)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 18 Jul, 2025 at 01:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 9 Glendale Rd / Route 183 , Stockbridge, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01262, 9 Glendale Rd, Glendale, MA 01229-7702, United States
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  - **A:** Norman Rockwell Museum
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  - **A:** art, exhibitions, literary-art
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