Amy Sherald: Accessibility Guide
Explore detailed verbal and visual descriptions, exhibition labels, and video transcripts for select artworks across the exhibition.
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Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons)
Handsome
A Golden Afternoon
As Soft as She Is…
The Boy with No Past
They Call Me Redbone, but I’d Rather Be Strawberry Shortcake
The Bathers
Try on dreams until I find one that fits me. They all fit me
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Planes, Rockets, and the Spaces in Between
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it
As American as Apple Pie
Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama
She Always Believed the Good about Those She Loved
Breonna Taylor
A Bucket Full of Treasures (Papa Gave Me Sunshine to Put in My Pocket)
Kingdom
What’s precious inside of him does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence (All American)
American Grit
Trans Forming Liberty
A God Blessed Land (Empire of Dirt)
For Love, and for Country
A Midsummer Afternoon Dream
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