Verbal Description Online: no existe un mundo poshuracán Fri, Apr 21, 2023, 10–11:30 am

Verbal Description Online: no existe un mundo poshuracán

Fri, Apr 21, 2023
10–11:30 am

A worn red, white, and blue sign with text and images of Puerto Rican and American flags attached to a wooden post with wires attached to it.
A worn red, white, and blue sign with text and images of Puerto Rican and American flags attached to a wooden post with wires attached to it.

Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Untitled (Valora tu mentira americana) (detail), 2018. Hurricane ravaged wooden electric post with statehood propaganda, 116 × 118 × 122 in. (294.6 × 299.7 × 309.9 cm). Private collection; courtesy the artist and Embajada, San Juan

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Visitors who are blind or have low vision are invited to explore no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria with educator Gabriela O’Leary. In this landmark survey, Puerto Rican artists respond to the aftermath of devastating hurricanes, civil and political unrest, and other complex social and ecological challenges.

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. 

Listen to a Verbal Description of the artwork pictured here, Untitled (Valora tu mentira americana) by Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, on our Mobile Guide.


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