NEW YORK, NY.- The current Museum of Modern Art exhibition One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North expands uptown, beyond the Museum’s galleries, with the launch of a self-guided walking tour that explores the Harlem that nurtured Lawrence as a young artist in the 1930s. Featuring commentary from cultural leaders working there today, this audio tour puts Harlem’s past and present in dialogue. It is available beginning today at MoMA.org/harlemwalkingtour.

The tour introduces audiences to people and places that helped to shape Lawrence’s perspective as an artist, and visits artworks related to the exhibition that can only be seen at their locations in Harlem, such as Aaron Douglas’s landmark mural cycle at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and his mural at the YMCA on 135th Street; and Charles Alston’s recently restored murals at the Harlem Hospital Center. Together, the stops on the walking tour create a portrait of how the Great Migration unfolded in Harlem, and how it came to be the subject of Lawrence’s great masterwork.

Narrated by WQXR’s Terrance McKnight, the tour features rich illustrations, archival interviews with Jacob Lawrence, and commentary by:

Leah Dickerman, The Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA  Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem

• Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, author of Harlem Is Nowhere
• Arva Rice, President and CEO, New York Urban League
• Elinor Tatum, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, New York Amsterdam News
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Elizabeth Alexander, poet and professor, Yale University
• Robert O’Meally, professor, Columbia University
• Marcus Samuelsson, chef, Red Rooster Harlem

The walking tour is part of the in-depth website MoMA.org/migrationseries, where you can also view all 60 panels of the Migration Series in high resolution, and explore the series through music, poetry, video, and images. The website is accessible on any Web-enabled device.

One-Way Ticket also features a rich menu of programs and commissions that explore the legacy of Jacob Lawrence’s work and the Great Migration today.