Verbal Description Tour: What It Becomes Sat, Sept 7, 2024, 11:30 am–1 pm

Verbal Description Tour: What It Becomes

Sat, Sept 7, 2024
11:30 am–1 pm

Person applying black face paint in intricate patterns, covering half of their face. The paint forms symmetrical lines and shapes.

Maren Hassinger, Daily Mask, 1997-2004. 16mm film, color, sound; 3:32 min., transferred to video. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Film and Video Committee 2020.77. © Maren Hassinger

Person applying black face paint in intricate patterns, covering half of their face. The paint forms symmetrical lines and shapes.

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Join us for a virtual program focused on the exhibit, What It Becomes, led by educator, Stina Puotinen. The event begins with a tour at 11:30am 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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