Verbal Description Online: Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019
Fri, June 19, 2020
10–11:30 am
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 the various ways artists use textiles in works from the exhibition Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, including works by Elaine Reichek, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Nick Cave, and others.
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.
