Visitors who are blind or partially sighted are invited to join us for an interactive verbal description and touch tour in the museum’s galleries. The tour incorporates verbal imaging techniques and the museum’s Touch Collection, which includes objects that are expressly meant for handling.

Several artists in the exhibition Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler have created their own visual language, which often include intricate, mesmerizing patterns and dizzying repetition. Participants will explore the artwork on a guided tour, then return to the studio to use mixed media to create their own pieces that focus on detailed patterning.

Sugar, house paint, tin foil, and typewriter parts are just a few examples of the many found and unusual materials self-taught artists used to create their artistic vision. This discussion will convene scholars to discuss the innovation of self-taught artists and how studying materials and process can lead to a deeper understanding of their work. Speakers include curators Aleesa P. Alexander and Choghakate Kazarian.