Verbal Description Tour: Edges of Ailey Sat, Oct 5, 2024, 11:30 am–1 pm

Verbal Description Tour: Edges of Ailey

Sat, Oct 5, 2024
11:30 am–1 pm

Black and white photograph of a dance performance with three male and three female figures arranged in a group on stage, hands outstretched above.
Black and white photograph of a dance performance with three male and three female figures arranged in a group on stage, hands outstretched above.

Jack Mitchell, Alvin Ailey, Myrna White, James Truitte, Ella Thompson, Minnie Marshall, and Don Martin in “Revelations", 1961. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. ©️ Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. and Smithsonian Institution

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Join us for a virtual program focused on the exhibit, Edges of Ailey led by educator Stina Puotinen. The event begins with a tour at 11:30 am on Zoom. 

Verbal Description Online provides an opportunity for visitors who are blind or have low vision to experience the richness and diversity of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American art through vivid description. Ninety-minute sessions are free-of-charge and are offered monthly on weekend mornings through Zoom and over the phone.

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