[Home-on-the-Range] FW: Queens Museum Virtual Verbal Description Tour this Saturday

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From: 'Chancey Fleet' via Technology Programs at Andrew Heiskell Braille & Talking Book Library <HeiskellTech at googlegroups.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 3:16 PM
To: heiskelltech at googlegroups.com
Subject: Fwd: Queens Museum Virtual Verbal Description Tour this Saturday

I’m sharing an announcement about an upcoming free online program from the Queens Museum.

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Chancey Fleet

Assistive Tech Coordinator — Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library

Call or text: 347-632-8383 

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From: Lindsey Berfond <lberfond at queensmuseum.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 3:02:32 PM
To: Chancey Fleet <chanceyfleet at nypl.org>
Subject: Queens Museum Virtual Verbal Description Tour this Saturday 

Hi Chancey, 

I hope this email finds you well! I wanted to reach out with some information about a verbal description tour we're hosting on this Sunday, September 8 from 12 to 2pm via Zoom. The tour is in conjunction with our current exhibitions at the Queens Museum. We'd greatly appreciate it if you might be able to share information about this event with the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library community! I'm including further details below:

ONLINE: Verbal Description Tours with Cameron A. Granger, Nsenga Knight, and Catalina Schliebener Muñoz

Visitors who are blind or have low vision are invited to join Cameron A. Granger, Nsenga Knight, and Catalina Schliebener Muñoz in a virtual verbal description tour of their respective exhibitions:  <https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/cameron-a-granger-9999/> 9999,  <https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/nsenga-knight-close-to-home/> Close to Home, and  <https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/catalina-schliebener-munoz-buenos-vecinos/> Buenos Vecinos. Using various media and approaches across sculpture, printmaking, painting, collage, and video, these three artists engage with archives and history to reframe and consider new perspectives.

Join these three artists as they each verbally describe an artwork from their solo exhibitions and discuss their practice with participants. 

Cameron A. Granger: 9999 unmasks power structures and their hidden, yet accumulative, violence in shaping Black neighborhoods. Through film, sculptures, and prints, Granger blends history and the supernatural to both scrutinize the construction of systemic oppression and imagine alternative futures. Granger combines histories of Black magicians and conjurers with the iconography of video games to examine the insidiously concealed influences of urban planning on Black communities.

Nsenga Knight: Close to Home contextualizes personal and communal histories with that of postcolonial self-representation of Afro-Muslim national pavilions in 1964-65 World’s Fair and the history of the Queens Museum’s building. Drawing from her Afro-Caribbean American Muslim background and six years living in Cairo, Egypt, Knight explores the expansive meanings of home as a space of spiritual refuge, as well as a space for fostering understanding and reflecting on calls for peace amidst global conflicts and oppression. Knight’s installations and artworks resituate archives and histories within this domestic setting, which is elaborately composed with Knight’s videos, photography, prints, paintings, and a reference library.

Catalina Schliebener Muñoz: Buenos Vecinos confronts the legacy of two Walt Disney films that emerged from state-sponsored research trips to Latin American nations. Schliebener Muñoz examines how these films functioned as a form of soft power, enlisting children’s media towards the economic and geopolitical interests of the United States. Through installation, sculpture, collage, and large-scale mural works, the artist questions how forms of caricature and othering further exploited and infantilized the relationship between North and South America.

This two-hour program will be facilitated by Sarah Cho, Assistant Curator and Lindsey Berfond, Assistant Curator and Studio Programs Manager. The virtual description tour will be accessible by Zoom link or by dial-in, depending on your preference. 

 <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-9999-buenos-vecinos-and-close-to-home-verbal-description-tours-tickets-982329924247?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl> RSVP Required via Zoom. Please sign up through the hyperlink here.

For questions or assistance registering for the program, please email  <mailto:accessibility at queensmuseum.org> accessibility at queensmuseum.org or call 718 592 9700.

Thank you so much!

Lindsey

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