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Crocker Art Museum patrons enjoy works by Norman Rockwell in November. The City Council is willing to forgive up to $7.5 million in loans to the museum. To qualify, though, the museum must raise $2.5 million for its endowment.

The opening of the Crocker Art Museum in 2010 featured the Core Dance Collective and other performers. The museum still faces a funding gap to pay for the museum's expansion.

Travis Somerville, a San Francisco artist, prepares to hang "The Only Begotten Son" at the Crocker Art Museum as part of a mixed-media presentation on Somerville growing up in the 1960s in the South. Somerville said the work was in a Martin Luther King Jr. show at the Smithsonian Institution that was seen by King's widow, Coretta Scott King. The artist said he was summoned to a meeting with her and she said the painting was her favorite work in the show.

Three-year-old Audrey Cook of Davis admires a paper doll in the hand of workshop leader and paper doll collector Arabella Grayson on Monday at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. About 1,500 parents and children took part in Crocker events Monday that were part of Black History Month.