Sidewalk U NYC - Thursday

On Thursday we spent most of the day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  The students were tasked with a list of artists with disabilities and their location in the museum.  We asked them to think about how the disability may have informed the art.  After lunch we met with the Disability Access staff and had a presentation from Annie Leist, an artist with severely limited vision.  Check out her beautiful paintings on her Facebook page.  For dinner some of us went to a Korean restaurant.  I tasted kimchi for the first time and was pleasantly surprised.  The students really rose to the challenge to try a variety of different foods while in NYC

These lovely murals were in the subway near the Museum of Natural History

  Students listening to Melissa about their day in the Met.

 I can't describe how cute it was to hear ten plus young women squeal "Jackson Pollack" and rush forward to examine the painting

Chuck Close painting.  Chuck suffered a collapsed spinal artery resulting in quadreplegia He credits occupational therapists with helping him return to painting.  I love Chuck Close.

 One of the many pieces of art I recognized from my art history book.

 Off to lunch at the cafeteria - hard to negotiate in a wheelchair.

  The inside of a handicapped bathroom stall.  See the extra handle on the door - very helpful.

The outside of the Met at night.

Handicap accessible swing at a near by playground.

An avenue near the Met

Another mosaic.

  More mosaics.

 US flags are stickered on many of the subway trains.

Waiting for the right train.

At the Korean restaurant.

Broccoli and beef - delish

Checking out the condiments

So this is a screen shot, one of many from that week. As the transit app didn't work in the subway, you would look up directions above ground, take a screen shot and you were good to go,