Whitney Signs: Amy Sherald Sat, June 7, 2025, 3:30–6 pm

Whitney Signs: Amy Sherald

Sat, June 7, 2025
3:30–6 pm

Person in white shirt and striped pants sits on green beam against a bright blue background.
Person in white shirt and striped pants sits on green beam against a bright blue background.

Amy Sherald, If You Surrendered to the Air, You Could Ride It, 2019. Oil on linen, 130 × 108 × 2 1/2 in. (330.2 × 274.3 × 6.4 cm. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee, Sascha S. Bauer, Jack Cayre, Nancy Carrington Crown, Nancy Poses, Laura Rapp, and Elizabeth Redleaf 2020.148. ©  Amy Sherald

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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 led by Deaf educator Emmanuel von Schack in American Sign Language. The tour begins at 3:30 pm and will be followed by a wine and cheese reception from 5–6 pm in the 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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