Whitney Signs: American Sublime and Long Line Sat, Apr 5, 2025, 3:30–6 pm

Whitney Signs: American Sublime and Long Line

Sat, Apr 5, 2025
3:30–6 pm

Woman centered in blue sundress blowing in the wind. She wears a tan visor and leans against a bicycle. In the background is soft green grass, a white picket fence, and sunflowers blooming.
Woman centered in blue sundress blowing in the wind. She wears a tan visor and leans against a bicycle. In the background is soft green grass, a white picket fence, and sunflowers blooming.

Amy Sherald, A Midsummer Afternoon Dream, 2021. Oil on canvas, 106 × 101 × 2 1/2 in. (269.24 × 256.54 × 6.35cm). Private Collection. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photograph by Joseph Hyde

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This event is free but registration is required. If you have not registered, we cannot add you to the tour day of. Due to a limited capacity, this program is Deaf-priority, and we do not allow ASL students to attend.

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Floor 5

Join us for an in-person tour of Amy Sherald: American Sublime and Mary Heilmann: Long Line led by Deaf educator Emmanuel Von Scheck in American Sign Language. The event begins with a tour at 3:30 pm and will be followed by a wine and cheese reception from 5–6 pm in the Hess Theater. Please plan to meet in the lobby at 3:15 pm. 

This tour will be in ASL and will not have voice interpretation. To request interpretation for Tactile, Protactile, International Sign Language, another language, or additional accommodations, including Braille, please email accessfeedback@whitney.org or call (646) 666-5574 (relay calls welcome) with two weeks’ notice.


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