Sensory Friendly Sunday

Pipe Cleaner Creations
With help from teaching artist May Ling Kopecky, visitors will create small flowers out of colorful pipe cleaners. These flowers can be used for decorations, ornaments, and more. Visitors will create petals and leaves that can then be inserted into foam balls, which act as the center of the flower.

Pencil Personalities
While exploring the exhibition Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night, you’ll see how facial expressions, especially in American Sign Language (ASL), can be important for communication. In this gallery activity, visitors will be prompted to draw a pencil showing different expressions.

To access Gallery 5, take the accessible lift down one level from floor 6. To access Gallery 2, take the accessible lift down one level from floor 3.

Videos on view within the exhibition Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night contain flickering effects and sounds that change in volume, pitch, and tone.

The exhibition Rosy Simas: A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:’ (i hope it will stir your mind) has low light levels. Videos include shifting light effects. Information in the exhibition is provided in Onondowa’ga:’ Gawe:no’, English, and American Sign Language (ASL). Samples of several significant materials used in the installation are available to touch. To experience the exhibition sound of Onondowa’ga:’ Gawe:no’ through vibration, touch the pillar near the benches inside the installation.

The short film will be captioned in English.

To prepare for your visit, check out this Social Narrative.

For questions about accessibility or to request accommodations, call 612-375-7564 or email access@walkerart.org.

May Ling Kopecky is an artist who specializes in highly detailed, hyper-realistic drawings and paintings. Kopecky holds a BFA from the University of Minnesota and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). Her work has received multiple awards in exhibitions across the US. Kopecky was a grant recipient of the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council’s Next Step Fund in 2019. In 2021, Kopecky was awarded Second Place for the Kennedy Center VSA Emerging Young Artist Competition in Washington, DC, where she advocated for students with disabilities and accessibility in the arts. She has been featured in publications such as New American Paintings, the National MS Society’s Momentum magazine, the Star Tribune, Practical Neurology, and the Mayo Clinic News Network. Kopecky currently works in the Learning Center and Accessibility Services department at MCAD. Through her work, she strives to spread disability awareness and advocate for people with invisible illnesses.