University-level students were invited to submit design ideas for a premier showcase of student projects on solutions for improving accessibility or inclusion. All accepted entries will be on view in the Barbara and Morton Mandel Design Gallery February 5–25, 2018. Join us as students present their...
9:00am – 9:30am: Registration, Breakfast & Welcome 10:00AM – 10:20AM: Workshop 1: Designing Accessible Presentations, with Walei Sabry & Claire Kearney-Volpe 10:30AM – 12:00PM: Workshop 2: Empathy Building for Innovation, with Margaret Price, Principal Design Strategist, Microsoft How can diversity act as a source of innovation and disruption?...
Building a more inclusive city is a design opportunity. Join us for a day of ignite talks and critical discussions presented in partnership with the NYC Mayor’s Office for Disabilities to explore the barriers that make cities inaccessible and the innovations that promote intentional user-focused...
Visitors will participate in an orientation session using tactile models of our historic tenement as well as architectural features before going on a tour that will include touch objects, braille materials, and verbal description. The tour will be an hour and a half long, followed...
Join us for a free film screening of Getting Up followed by a conversation on future technologies and how they will help us to reimagine user-centered accessible design. Getting Up tells the story of graffiti artist TemptOne, who was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou...
Experience the Whitney’s world renowned collection of modern and contemporary American art in American Sign Language. Join us for a tour of An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017 led by an expert Deaf educator. The tour begins at 5 pm, with a...
Please join us for a tour of Laura Owens. Whitney verbal description and touch tours provide an opportunity for visitors who are blind or have low vision and their companions to experience the richness and diversity of twentieth and twenty-first century American art through vivid description...
We are pleased to invite you to join us for Interpreting MoMA, our bimonthly program for deaf adults. Each month’s program will begin with a wine and cheese reception, followed by a sign language-interpreted private gallery talk focusing on one of MoMA’s special exhibitions. Interpreting MoMA...
This program is held monthly in the Museum galleries. Specially trained Museum lecturers highlight specific themes, artists, and exhibitions, engaging participants through extensive verbal descriptions. Art inSight is free of charge. Space is limited and preregistration is required. For more information or to register, please call Access...
The Museum of Modern Art welcomes you to join us for Create Ability, a program for individuals with learning and developmental disabilities and their families. Each month participants focus on a different theme, exploring various artworks in the galleries and creating artworks in the classroom. Create...