{"title": "Discover Design at Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library: Design Across Time", "start": "2026-11-19T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-19T18:30:00-05:00", "place": "Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library", "address": "West 20th Street 40, 10011 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "Discover Design at Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library: Design Across Time is a guided conversation and hands-on workshop exploring the Design Across Time exhibition, with this session focused on the theme Repeat. It is co-hosted by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum staff at the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. Participants join an interactive tactile tour with live verbal description of every object, group discussion, and creative design activities. The program is free of charge, designed for visitors of all ages interested in design, and registration is recommended.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/discover-design-at-andrew-heiskell-braille-and-talking-book-52205/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/discover-design-at-andrew-heiskell-braille-and-talking-book-library-design-across-time-11-19-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e568a5aca59d658944c4d5ceea168d1eeed0e491cf85d945604c9fb4dd64c8be-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-19T18:30:00-05:00", "place": "Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library", "address": "West 20th Street 40, 10011 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Design Night | Sketching from Nature", "start": "2026-11-20T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-20T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "Free for Visitors with Disabilities and their companions", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "Design Night | Sketching from Nature is a sensory-friendly evening of structured fun at the museum, designed for adult visitors who identify as Autistic or with a range of sensory, learning, and developmental disabilities. Hosted by Cooper Hewitt, it invites participants to engage in the creative process of sketching from nature inspired by the Church in Jamaica exhibition through interactive experiences, conversation, and creativity. The night offers a guided 30-minute tour of the exhibition led by museum staff, a hands-on creative activity, wine, drinks, and snacks, and a quiet Break Room for those who need a rest. The museum will be closed to the public, is fully wheelchair accessible, and registration is required for this free program.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/design-night-sketching-from-nature-52207/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/design-night-sketching-from-nature-11-20-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb6d2d1d0fa479ff694591b78ce51093e93999a0cbf581705e7779c37c8a50ad-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Whitney Signs: Roy Lichtenstein and Screenprinting Workshop", "start": "2026-11-07T15:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "Whitney Museum of American Art", "address": "Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "An in-person ASL tour of the exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: Like New followed by a screenprinting workshop, with a wine and cheese reception afterward. The tour is led by Deaf educator Gina Marciona, and the workshop is run with Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, a co-operative printmaking workspace open to artists of every skill level. The program is Deaf-priority; advance registration is required and it is not open to ASL students. Participants meet in the Hearst Artspace on Floor 3.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/whitney-signs-roy-lichtenstein-and-screenprinting-workshop-75753/", "official_url": "https://whitney.org/events/whitney-signs-lichtenstein", "image": ""}, {"title": "Design Lab: Weekend Activities", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York Hall of Science", "address": "111th Street 47-01, 11368", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/design", "science/engineering"], "description": "Design Lab: Weekend Activities is a drop-in program of hands-on design and engineering challenges at the New York Hall of Science, running all day on the weekend. The museum's Design Lab invites visitors to take risks, share ideas, and gain new perspectives on engineering and design through raw materials and real-world problems. This day's activities include Ziplines, where you build a harness to send farm animal figures down the lines, Lego Bridges, a ramp obstacle course for a ball, and color tile puzzles for an Indi bot.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/design-lab-weekend-activities-124707/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3cd9cda9d59709e92038b762297dc9c2d9540c7265cdadf2329a6ce39648d182-2000.webp"}, {"title": "3D Printing and Design for Teens", "start": "2026-11-12T15:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "West New Brighton Library", "address": "Castleton Avenue 976, 10310 Staten Island", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/3d-printing"], "description": "An introduction to 3D printing and design for teens aged 12 to 18. The West New Brighton Library, during Library Open House Week, presents its new Bambu 3D printer. Participants learn how 3D printing works, how to use the Bambu software, and how to design their own 3D printed objects. The library is fully accessible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/3d-printing-and-design-for-teens-136178/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "At the Hearth: Make a Pinch Pot with Greenwich House Pottery", "start": "2026-11-18T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-18T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "Pay What You Wish", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/design", "diy/ceramics"], "description": "At the Hearth is a drop-in program in the museum's historic Carnegie Library where visitors sit by the fireplace for conversations about design. This session offers a hands-on pinch pot workshop: make a simple, un-fired, hand-built clay vessel with Greenwich House Pottery, New York City's home for ceramics education, founded in 1902. Visitors can view inspiration from the organization's archive, recently acquired by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, then make their pinch pot downstairs in the Lecture Room. A warm welcome will be provided by Alexandra Hodkowski, Curator of Public Programs, and Michelle Millar Fisher, Chief Curator.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/at-the-hearth-make-a-pinch-pot-with-greenwich-house-pottery-52204/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/at-the-hearth-make-a-pinch-pot-with-greenwich-house-pottery-11-18-2026/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society"], "description": "Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design is an exhibition at Van Alen Institute's Brooklyn space that invites five artists and design teams to respond to the institute's historic archive. Van Alen Institute has spent more than 130 years at the intersection of design ambition and civic life, and its archive of competition boards, jury records, travel logs, and correspondence is one of the most extensive records of American architectural history. Working directly with these materials, the participants ask what the archive reveals about who design has historically served and whom it has erased, through works such as sonic installations summoning uncredited voices and core samples grounding architecture in land history. Visitors are invited to explore the exhibition with curiosity and skepticism, treating the archive as living material to be questioned and reinterpreted.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-access-exploring-130-years-of-american-design-57334/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/64844e8853810e08d6817a2b007c3c46562ffdf6503ee3d9177bfd96dd15cd41-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ASL Artist Talk: Patterns and Shapes in Nature", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Botanic Garden", "address": "Washington Avenue at Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY", "price": "Free (preregistration required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design", "nature/plants"], "description": "ASL Artist Talk: Patterns and Shapes in Nature is a guided American Sign Language tour exploring the patterns, shapes, and colors of tropical plants. Artist and designer Trevor Baldwin leads participants in recognizing specific patterns among the plants in Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Conservatory, drawing parallels with the fashions of Iris van Herpen. An outdoor seasonal highlights tour follows, expanding the observation of patterns and building an interactive nature vocabulary. The program is designed for the d/Deaf community, and some portions are without voice interpretation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/asl-artist-talk-patterns-and-shapes-in-nature-79181/", "official_url": "https://www.bbg.org/visit/event/asl_artist_talk_patterns_and_shapes_in_nature", "image": "https://noky.io/images/772f00265c74bdb75ae17cf595537bdf2ecabaf1b3d33b3e7518f261b859346a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "David Reinfurt for Open Flat File", "start": "2026-11-19T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-19T21:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper Union", "address": "7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, New York, NY", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design"], "description": "A lecture by designer David Reinfurt about the magazine Visible Language and TOKENS, part of the Open Flat File lecture series marking the 40th anniversary of the Herb Lubalin Study Center. Ten designers, artists, and researchers were each invited to choose a single object from the Herb Lubalin Center's archive to respond to. Reinfurt and the other lecturers have designed a commemorative poster that will be handed out for free at the event. The talk takes place in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, will be live-streamed on YouTube, and is followed by a reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/david-reinfurt-for-open-flat-file-75371/", "official_url": "https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/david-reinfurt-open-flat-file", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c6aab6b875b413737f0358090cc7ef536ce69a0431fdfe4daf19c0b4f3263437-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Family Program | Botanical Prints", "start": "2026-11-14T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "Free with museum admission", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["science/biology/botany", "diy/printmaking"], "description": "Family Program | Botanical Prints is a drop-in hands-on workshop at Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, where youth ages 5–12 and their adult guardians create botanical prints using gel plates. It is part of the museum's monthly second-Saturday family activities and is inspired by the exhibition Frederic Church in Jamaica, whose botanical sketches made on treks through Jamaica's landscape will be on view. A museum educator guides participants as they use ferns and other botanical pressings to make prints capturing the details of nature; no experience is necessary and all materials are provided. The program is included with museum admission, youth 18 and under are always free, and registration is not required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/family-program-botanical-prints-52202/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/family-program-botanical-prints-11-14-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f8528b50a2390433981e8bf089e447b0be0aade8c1b5754211d3b482fb44c174-2000.webp"}]}