[Artbeyondsightmuseums] library, InSight art competion, Esref Armagan

[Lisa Yayla]

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Lisa
Disabled-friendly Environment at Suvadi Digital Library 
<http://www.suvadi.org/2010/08/disabled-friendly-environment-at-suvadi.html>
...This facility can be extended not only to English language but one 
can also produce Braille text in Indian languages. Besides, one can also 
provide Braille print-outs not only in text but also charts, maps, 
diagrams, pictures incorporated along with the text.
http://www.suvadi.org/2010/08/disabled-friendly-environment-at-suvadi.html
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Amazing Paintings by a Blind Man
http://visboo.com/amazing-paintings-by-a-blind-man.html

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wins prize in InSights art competition for visually impaired 
<http://www.therecordherald.com/features/x2143019890/Kaytlyn-Floyd-5-wins-prize-in-InSights-art-competition-for-visually-impaired>
http://www.therecordherald.com/features/x2143019890/Kaytlyn-Floyd-5-wins-prize-in-InSights-art-competition-for-visually-impaired

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Vision-impaired children find way to see art 
<http://www.uticaod.com/news/x162775068/Vision-impaired-children-find-way-to-see-art>
UTICA ---
The visual arts became more than something that could be seen at 
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute on Tuesday and Wednesday when 
five children from the Central Association for the Blind and Visually 
Impaired participated in a two-day art workshop.

The children, who had varying types of visual impairments, experienced 
art not with their eyes, but with the rest of their senses.

They observed paintings of birds through the touch of a feather or by 
running their hands along a paint palette or canvas. They perceived 
pottery by handling the soft and hard bricks, cone packets, textiles, 
glazed pots and soft-fired plates.
http://www.uticaod.com/features/x162775068/Vision-impaired-children-find-way-to-see-art

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The Paintings of a Congenitally Blind Man.
Esref Armagan was born blind, in a poor family, but that hasn't stopped 
him from becoming a successful artist, with .....

http://www.unp.co.in/f44/the-paintings-of-a-congenitally-blind-man-101249/