Name: Create Ability: Color and Form (Ages 5–17)
Start: 2025-03-02T11:00
End: 2025-03-02T13:00
Location: Education Center

Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Ages 5–17

Education Center, Floor 1

The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building

Free, registration or RSVP required

For visitors with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Sam Gilliam. Untitled. 1971. Dye stain on mulberry paper. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired with matching funds from The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. and the National Endowment for the Arts. © Sam Gilliam/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Image description: A piece of frayed, textured paper has been folded with deep vertical and horizontal creases. Deep magentas, blues, yellows, and amber watercolors bleed into one another in a tie-dye effect across the gridded folds.

Please join us for MoMA’s monthly program welcoming individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, with their families and friends, to explore works on view and create artwork together. In each session, participants focus on a different theme during interactive activities in the Museum’s galleries and classrooms.

Registration opens on February 3 at 10:00 a.m.

Create Ability is free of charge. Space is limited and preregistration is required. For more information or to register, please email [email protected] or call Access Programs at 212-408-6447.

Accessibility

Wheelchair Accessible
The Cullman Education Building entrance has a power-assist door.
Seating options include gallery stools, chairs with backs, chairs with backs and armrests, and some gallery benches. Wheelchairs and rollators are available by request at all Museum entrances, on a first-come, first-served basis.

Accessible and all-gender restrooms are located in the Cullman Education Building.

Service dogs welcome
Guide dogs and other trained service animals are always welcome.

Assisted listening capabilities available
Assistive listening devices (including headsets and T-coil compatible neck loops) for sound amplification are available upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these services.

Sign language interpretation available Closed caption
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and live captioning (CART) are available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these services.

The Adobe Foundation is proud to support equity, learning, and creativity at MoMA.

Access and Community Programs are supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

Major funding is provided by The Taft Foundation.

Additional support is provided by the Sarah K. de Coizart Article TENTH Perpetual Charitable Trust, the Allene Reuss Memorial Trust, the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Fund for Older Adults at MoMA in honor of Agnes Gund, the J.E. and Z.B. Butler Foundation, the Megara Foundation, The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., The Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation, and the Annual Education Fund.

This event is part of Create Ability.
This event is part of Access Programs.

Licensing

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