Accessibility

Website Accessibility

The Foundation is committed to expanding digital accessibility and maintaining an inclusive and equitable user experience on our website. To meet the needs of a wide range of web users, we employ responsive and high contrast text, keyboard navigation, alt text for images, and video captioning as standard practices. Our site is accessible on mobile devices.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities, with three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. The Joan Mitchell Foundation’s website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of the Joan Mitchell Foundation website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on joanmitchellfoundation.org.

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: (212) 524-0100
• Postal address: 137 W. 25th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001

We will respond to feedback within five business days.

Site Accessibility: Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York

The Foundation’s main office at 137 W. 25th Street, New York, is ADA Compliant.

Key accessibility features include:

• Elevator access to the floor
• Generously spaced doorway and corridors
• Two wheelchair accessible bathrooms
• Bathroom signage includes braille
• Lever door handles throughout
• Motion sensor-based light switching for all public areas
• Adjustable height, wheelchair accessible workstations in some rooms and work areas
• Directional signage for exits
• Private room available for sensory breaks
• Air purifiers in office spaces, and set policies for COVID-19 and other infectious disease mitigation. Masking is optional. Masks and hand sanitizer are available at entry, and sanitation kits are available throughout the offices.

In addition to being accessible, the spaces at the main office are set up to be flexible and open in order to accommodate emergent needs as easily as possible.

Known accessibility challenges include:

• There is no dedicated parking for the Foundation. Street parking is potentially available, but challenging to secure. The closest ADA-accessible MTA stations are 34 St Penn Station (1•2•3•LIRR, 0.4 miles away) or 14 St / 8 Av (A•C•E•L, 0.7 miles away).
• Public areas of the building including the street door entrance and elevator do not have braille signage.

View photos of Joan Mitchell Foundation offices for additional context about the space here.

Accommodation Requests, Questions, and Feedback

Please send questions or access needs before you visit to the contact below. You may also reach out to this contact if you encounter accessibility barriers while in our office. We welcome your questions and feedback on the accessibility of the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s New York office.

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: (212) 524-0100 x 206
• Postal address: 137 W. 25th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001

Site Accessibility: Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans

The Joan Mitchell Center strives to be an inclusive and welcoming gathering place for artists and guests. With that in mind, we are continually working on improving accessibility on our residency campus.

Key site accessibility features include:

• ADA-accessible entry and exit points for all campus buildings
• Wheelchair accessible bathrooms
• Auto-openers for the studio building front door, back door, and Studio 8
• Lift for the Admin Building side porch
• Adjustable height work tables in studios
• Certain studio building doors are left open in order to make them accessible (media room, bathrooms, tool room)
• ADA compliant signage on restrooms and public gathering rooms
• ADA designated parking space available in gated parking lot accessible via 1464 N Rocheblave Street. Parking lot requires numeric code to enter; see Accommodation Requests contact information below to request access in advance.
• Set policies for COVID-19 and other infectious disease mitigation. Masking is optional. Masks and hand sanitizer are available at public events.

Known accessibility challenges on campus follow:

• Bayou Road gates: Both gates into campus are difficult for unaided wheelchair access, as a support person will be needed to hold open the gate to pass through. An attendant is available to assist with gate access during public events.
• Campus pathways and the back parking lot are composed of a semi-loose medium-to-large gravel on top of packed sand that is difficult to navigate in wheelchairs, as gravel can shift and is not an ideal stable surface. It is inaccessible to some wheelchair users without support. Power chair users are better able to navigate this surface, but may still find it suboptimal. Rubber mats currently cover the pathways between the Studio Building front and back doors, which make the pathways more accessible to lighter power wheelchair users, however they are not as compatible with heavy power chair users or manual chair users. A support person can be provided to assist wheelchair users; see Accommodation Requests contact information below to request support in advance.
• Ramps: There are small gaps at the bottom of the cement building ramps that make it difficult for some wheelchair users to get onto the ramp on their own. See Accommodation Requests contact information below to request support in advance. Auto-opening doors for the studio building require a code for entry. An attendant is available to assist with door access during public events.

View photos of the Joan Mitchell Center campus for additional context about the spaces here.

Accommodation Requests, Questions, and Feedback

Artists-in-Residence are individually interviewed for accessibility needs, accommodations, food or medical allergies, and more before arriving to campus.

Campus visitors are asked to send accommodation requests, questions, or access needs before you visit to the contact below. You may also reach out to this contact if you encounter accessibility barriers while on site at the Center. We welcome your questions and feedback on the accessibility of the Joan Mitchell Center campus.

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: (504) 940-2500
• Postal address: 2275 Bayou Road, New Orleans, LA 70119