Tours in American Sign Language
Enjoy ASL tours of exhibitions including One Life: Marian Anderson, Portraits of the World: Switzerland and The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today.
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Enjoy ASL tours of exhibitions including One Life: Marian Anderson, Portraits of the World: Switzerland and The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today.
Take a tour in American Sign Language of One Life: Marian Anderson, with guide Erikson Young.
Take a tour with American Sign Language expert Gabriel Arellano around the inaugural exhibition Portraits of the World: Switzerland. The featured work for this year’s exhibition is “Femme en Extase”, a portrait of the Italian dancer Giulia Leonardi by the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler, on loan from the Musées d'art et d'histoire de Genève.
Take a tour with American Sign Language expert Gabriel Arellano of The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today.
The Portrait Gallery has developed audio descriptions of select portraits from our signature exhibition, “America’s Presidents.” Designed for people who are blind or have low vision, these descriptions use precise, evocative language to convey the visual appearance of art, and are equally valuable for sighted visitors seeking closer observation.