Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped (installation view), at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2017. Photo by Annabeth Rosen. Courtesy the artist.
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ADMISSION: Free with advance registration at access@thecjm.org
Visitors who are blind or have low-vision are invited to experience Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped through a guided verbal description tour. The tour includes tactile experiences with works connected to the exhibition. Presented in partnership with Museum Meanderings, a program of Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Image description: A visitor holds up Singing Mirror II by artist Young Joon Kwak looking happily at herself in the reflection. The mirror has an unusual elongated shape and is made out of a pink clay with pigmented resin and paint, and the back of the mirror has white synthetic fur. Behind her is gathered a group of 4 other tour participants who look on with interest.
Museum Meanderings is a monthly museum meet up organized by Lighthouse for the Bind that offers cultural experiences designed for audiences who are blind or visually impaired. Museum Meanderings encourages the community to come together to learn about the accessibility features that museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and other cultural institutions in our area offer (or don’t offer), and they partner up with savvy Lighthouse volunteers for select exhibition interpretation. For more information contact Lighthouse Adult Program Coordinator Serena Olsen at solsen@lighthouse-sf.org.
The CJM strives for a welcoming environment for all of our visitors. In addition to ample space for wheelchairs and a friendly environment for service animals, sign language interpretation (ASL) can be scheduled for all programs with at least two weeks notice.
FM assistive listening devices (ALDs) for sound enhancement are available for all talks and tours. Please note that we would like to maintain this as a scent-free environment, and encourage visitors to refrain from using scented products out of respect for visitors with allergies or chemical sensitivities. For additional accommodation requests, please contact The CJM’s Access and Community Engagement Manager at access@thecjm.org or 415-655-7856.
Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped is the first major survey of Annabeth Rosen (b. 1957 Brooklyn, NY), Robert Arneson Chair at UC Davis, and 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.
For over two decades, Rosen has interrogated the medium of ceramics in the context of contemporary art. Featuring ceramics and works on paper from over twenty years, this groundbreaking exhibition examines how Rosen’s work radically defies the limits of her primary medium, pushing it beyond spectacle and into conversations about contemporary painting, feminist theory, endurance-based performance, and conceptual art.
Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped (installation view), at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2017. Photo by Annabeth Rosen. Courtesy the artist.
Access Programs are made possible by major support from Wells Fargo Foundation. Additional generous support is provided by The Morse Family Foundation.