Verbal Description Online: Queering the Collection Fri, June 16, 2023, 10–11:30 am

Verbal Description Online: Queering the Collection

Fri, June 16, 2023
10–11:30 am

A black and white photograph of two people on the beach. The man is in the center of the frame in total shadow and silhouette, while the woman sits on the sand in a flowy white garment with her back to the viewer.
A black and white photograph of two people on the beach. The man is in the center of the frame in total shadow and silhouette, while the woman sits on the sand in a flowy white garment with her back to the viewer.

PaJaMa, Jared French and Margaret French, Nantucket, 1946. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 4 3/8 × 6 11/16in. (11.1 × 17 cm) Image: 4 3/8 × 6 11/16 in. (11.1 × 17 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Promised gift of Jack Shear. 

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Online, via 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 Friday mornings through Zoom and over the phone. 

This session will focus on the Whitney’s collection artworks by PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret French).  

On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Maya Man, A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City

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Learn more at whitney.org/artport

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