This summer, the popular Big Umbrella Festival takes bloom as a free 1-day campus takeover full of relaxed spaces with multi-sensory experiences, performances, installations, and workshops specifically welcoming neurodivergent audiences and their families. Be awed by the high-flying aerial stunts of SWAY’s Bloom!, tap into your...
Join Poster House on the First Friday of every month for free admission and extended hours! Explore the museum’s latest exhibitions and get in on the fun by attending a tour, workshop, performance, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique...
Join experts for lively 30-minute dialogues on works of art on view in the galleries. In this talk, author, filmmaker, and founder of Disability/Arts Consultancy Simi Linton first considers the historical and physical significance of the Great Hall stairs. She then continues in the Patio...
Friday, July 21, 2023; 6:30 & 7:30 pm (2 showings, 30-minutes each) The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden WORLD PREMIERE Jerron Herman, choreographer, dancer, and sound artist Sugandha Gupta, costume designer Dancer and choreographer Jerron Herman responds to The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey with LAX, a solo...
Friday, July 21, 2023; 6:30 & 7:30 pm (2 showings, 30-minutes each) The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden WORLD PREMIERE Jerron Herman, choreographer, dancer, and sound artist Sugandha Gupta, costume designer Dancer and choreographer Jerron Herman responds to The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey with LAX, a solo...
Join us July 22 as we celebrate the history and contributions of people with disabilities to the botanical world—past and present—as we offer multi-sensory plant activities for all ages, a live performance from Heidi Latsky Dance, and tours. 12–3 p.m., Vanishing Art Featuring Heidi Latsky Dance, Performing...
Building with what we have discovered in the Cultivating Access Ecologies series, this Closing Party acts as a beautiful experiment about what it means to share space, ideas, joys, and dilemmas. We will experience access as a set of possibilities and invitations. We will dance with Silent...
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...
This fall, come explore our new drop-in discovery and play space for kids ages 3-11 and their families and caregivers. Save the date for the opening celebration of the 81st Street Studio on Saturday, September 9, 2023, 12–5 pm. Join us for a festival of activities, storytelling, games,...
For individuals living with dementia, together with their family members or care partners. Take a break from the everyday with in-person explorations of works of art. Free, though advance registration is required. Space is limited. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of...
