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Quieter Hours for Neurodivergent Visitors

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United States

The Whitney welcomes visitors to explore the Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept before public hours. Quieter hours are designed with greater access for neurodivergent visitors, visitors on the autism spectrum, visitors with PTSD, and beyond. A quieter hours social narrative will be provided soon. Tickets...

Free – $25

Verbal Description and Touch Tour

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United States

Verbal Description and Touch Tour for people who are Blind or have low vision with Lisa Alvarado and Natural Information Society Saturday, July 30 Verbal Description Tour: 6:30–7:30 pm Floor 5, Bluhm Kaufman Gallery Sound Performance: 7:30–8:30 pm Floor 3, Susan and John Hess Family Gallery, and...

Free

Verbal Description Online: Exploring Photography in the Whitney Museum

Zoom NY, United States

Explore our current photography exhibitions through vivid description in this online session designed for visitors who are blind or have low vision. Dive into Martine Gutierrez’s billboard project Supremacy and Time Management Techniques, showcasing photographs from the Whitney’s collection that probe the medium’s relationship to...

Free

Horas Mas Tranquilas (Sensory-Friendly tour in Spanish)

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United States

Horas más tranquilas es un programa diseñado para dar la bienvenida a visitantes neuro divergentes, visitantes con estrés postraumático, visitantes en el espectro del autismo y otros invitados que buscan una experiencia sensorial amigable y consciente de experiencias traumáticas. Horas más tranquilas para la exhibición no existe un mundo...

Free

Verbal Description and Touch Tour: In the Balance

Zoom NY, United States

Verbal Description Online: In the Balance Fri, Jan 20, 2023 10–11:30 am 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....

Free

Verbal Description Online: Queering the Collection

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United States

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...

Free

Radical Joy Ball with ADAPT

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United States

Adults 21+ The Radical Joy Ball celebrates the pride of self-expression. At this event we will highlight disability and LGBTQ+ pride. We recognize, honor, and celebrate those within our community who are LGBTQ+, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), and living with a disability....

$18

The Dignity of Our Breathing: A Disability Pride Month Poetry Reading

Susan and John Hess Family Theater, Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY, United States

This Disability Pride Month, join us for a poetry reading facilitated by Joselia Hughes featuring poets Kay Ulanday Barrett, Dan Schapiro, and Jackie Torres, and in conjunction with the thirty-third anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Hughes framed this poetry reading with this...

Free

Whitney Signs: Ruth Asawa Drink and Draw

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United States

Join us for an in-person drink and draw event inspired by Ruth Asawa: Through Line, led by Deaf educator Joyce Hom in ASL. The event will include artmaking activities inspired by Ruth Asawa’s ink drawing and stamping practices, and will be held in the Whitney...

Free