Name: Interpreting MoMA: Ruth Asawa
Start: 2025-11-17T17:00
End: 2025-11-17T19:30
Location: Education Center

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Held on Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 5:00–7:30 p.m.

Education Center, Floor 1

The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building

Visitors who are Deaf or hard of hearing

Ruth Asawa. Nasturtiums (TAM.1557). 1965. Lithograph. Proof outside the edition of 20. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co. © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. Courtesy David Zwirner. Image description: A lithograph print of flowers layered in an abstract composition that fills the entire page. The background is a bright yellow-green, with organic petal shapes emerging in warm brown and orange hues.

Please join us for MoMA’s bimonthly program welcoming individuals who are Deaf or hard of hearing to participate in an ASL-interpreted, private gallery talk focusing on one of MoMA’s exhibitions, along with a wine and snack reception.

In November we will explore the exhibition Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective with members of the curatorial team. Featuring some 300 artworks, this retrospective charts the artist’s lifelong explorations of materials and forms in a variety of mediums, including wire sculpture, bronze casts, drawings, paintings, prints, and public works. This survey celebrates the ways in which Asawa continuously transformed materials and objects into subjects of contemplation, unsettling distinctions between abstraction and figuration, figure and ground, and negative and positive space.

Interpreting MoMA is offered free of charge. Space is limited and advance registration is required. Registration opens on October 20, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.

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

Image description: A lithograph print of flowers layered in an abstract composition that fills the entire page. The background is a bright yellow-green, with organic petal shapes emerging in warm brown and orange hues.

Accessibility

Wheelchair Accessible
The Cullman Education and Research Center entrance has a power-assist door. Seating options include gallery stools and minimal gallery benches. Gallery stools, wheelchairs, and rollators are available by request at all Museum entrances on a first-come, first-served basis.

Accessible and all-gender restrooms are located in the Cullman Education Building. Accessible restrooms are also located near the tour galleries.

Service dogs welcome
Guide dogs and other trained service animals are always welcome.

Sign language interpretation available
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for this program.

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Live captioning (CART) and audio description are available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please email [email protected] or call (212) 408-6447 to make a request for these services.

For more information on accessibility at MoMA, please visit moma.org/visit/accessibility. For accessibility questions or accommodation requests, please email [email protected] or call (212) 408-6447.

Major funding is provided by The Taft Foundation.

Additional support is provided by Sarah K. de Coizart, J.E. and Z.B. Butler Foundation, Allene Reuss Memorial Trust, Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Fund for Older Adults at MoMA in honor of Agnes Gund, Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Megara Foundation, Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation, and the Annual Education Fund.

This event accompanies Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective.
This event is part of Interpreting MoMA.

Licensing

If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations).

MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at [email protected]. Motion picture film stills cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. For access to motion picture film stills for research purposes, please contact the Film Study Center at [email protected]. For more information about film loans and our Circulating Film and Video Library, please visit https://www.moma.org/research/circulating-film.

If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email [email protected]. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to [email protected].