Name: Interpreting MoMA: Just Above Midtown
Start: 2023-01-24T17:00
End: 2023-01-24T19:30
Location: Film, and Administrative Entrance

Visitors who are Deaf or hard of hearing

Tue, Jan 24, 5:00–7:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor 1, Film, and Administrative Entrance

Senga Nengudi performing *Air Propo* at JAM, 1981. Courtesy Senga Nengudi Image description: A horizontally-oriented photograph shows the artist Senga Nengudi performing in the Just Above Midtown gallery. She wears pink drawstring pants and a navy and red long-sleeved top. Her hands are held to her lips to create an instrument, and she uses her breath to make sound.

Please join us for The Museum of Modern Art’s bimonthly program for individuals who are Deaf or hard of hearing. Each program includes a sign language–interpreted private gallery talk focusing on one of MoMA’s exhibitions, along with a wine and cheese reception.

In January, we will explore the exhibition Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces. Just Above Midtown—or JAM—was an art gallery and Black space that welcomed artists and visitors of many generations and races in New York City from 1974 until 1986. Together we will discuss the artists and artworks shown at JAM and contextualize the experimental ethos that defined the gallery, with the curatorial team from the Department of Media and Performance

Interpreting MoMA is offered free of charge. Space is limited and advance registration is required.

For more information or to register, please email [email protected] or call Access Programs at 212-408-6447.

Volkswagen of America is proud to be MoMA’s lead partner of learning and engagement.

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

Major funding is provided by The Taft Foundation and by the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Fund for Older Adults at MoMA in honor of Agnes Gund.

Additional support is provided by the Sarah K. de Coizart Article 5th Charitable Trust, the Allene Reuss Memorial Trust, the J.E. and Z.B. Butler Foundation, The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., The Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation, and the Von Seebeck-Share B. Charitable Trust.

This event accompanies Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces.
This event is part of Interpreting MoMA.

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