Please join us for C/Krip Art Chats, a chance to build community among people interested in disability perspectives and aesthetics. No specialized understanding of art, art history, or crip theory is required. Each session is an opportunity for a small group of participants to view and discuss works from MoMA’s collection. Together we will generate ideas and conversation about these works, centering the lived experience of disability as a conceptual and creative framework.
C/Krip Art Chats: Rest, co-facilitated by special guest Jerron Herman with Annie Leist, will explore themes of rest, time, and self-care. Discussion will begin with and expand upon Black Power Naps, a project by artists Navild Acosta and Sosa, who claim power in rest, inviting us to imagine a world in which leisure, downtime, and quality sleep are available to all.
On Thursday, April 20, 6:00–8:00 p.m., we invite you to join us online via Zoom from wherever you may be.
On Sunday, April 30, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m., we will host our first in-person C/Krip Art Chat in the Black Power Naps installation in the Paula and James Crown Creativity Lab, and in other MoMA gallery spaces.
This program is free and open to the public, and advance registration is required.
Each session is two hours long. To keep the conversations relatively intimate, space is limited. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Once a session is full, a wait list will be offered.
Images and descriptions of works to be discussed will be sent to registered participants prior to the programs. Both the online and the in-person sessions will include verbal description, live captioning, and ASL interpretation. If you would like to request any additional accommodations, or let us know how we can best support your full participation in this program, please reach out to us at [email protected] or (212) 408-6447 at your earliest convenience.
Jerron Herman is a disabled dancer and writer who creates works to facilitate welcoming. He currently serves on the board of trustees at Dance/USA and regularly writes on art and culture. His play 3 Bodies was published in *Theater Magazine*’s June 2022 issue. Herman also curated the series Access Check 2.0 at the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation (2019–20) and Discourse: Disabled Artists for the Joyce Theater (2021). His awards include a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship, made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon and Ford Foundation; the 2021 Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts; and a 2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship from the Jerome Foundation.
Image description: A photograph of dancer Jerron Herman and MoMA Associate Educator Annie Leist sitting together on black metal stools in a gallery. Jerron, a Black man wearing a neon orange beanie, holds his hand up to his face as he says something cheeky to Annie, a white woman wearing bright red glasses, who throws back her head in laughter.
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Access and Community Programs are supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
Major funding is provided by The Taft Foundation and by the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Fund for Older Adults at MoMA in honor of Agnes Gund.
Additional support is provided by the Sarah K. de Coizart Article 5th Charitable Trust, the Allene Reuss Memorial Trust, the J.E. and Z.B. Butler Foundation, The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., The Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation, and the Von Seebeck-Share B. Charitable Trust.