Verbal Description Online: Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 10–11:30 am

Verbal Description Online: Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019

Fri, Aug 21, 2020
10–11:30 am

Hands hold a touch object of Alexander Calder’s wire sculpture The Brass Family
Hands hold a touch object of Alexander Calder’s wire sculpture The Brass Family

Hands hold a touch object of Alexander Calder’s wire sculpture The Brass Family, on view in the exhibition American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 22, 2012–June 29, 2014) 

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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 Friday mornings through Zoom and over the phone. This session will focus on works from the exhibition Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019.

Space is limited, and reservations are required. Please contact accessfeedback@whitney.org or call (646) 666-5574 to learn more or register. A Zoom link will be provided upon confirmation of reservation.


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