From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Mon Aug 6 10:40:22 2012 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 12:40:22 +0200 Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] Free Webinar: The DIAGRAM Center: Making Digital Images Accessible Wed Aug. 8 Message-ID: Forwarding: Free Webinar: The DIAGRAM Center: Making Digital Images Accessible This Webinar next Wednesday is timely and important. I heard these presenters at CSUN last March, and for me it was the best Presentation I attended. Take my word. It is timely and valuable and entertaining. The DIAGRAM Center: Making Digital Images Accessible Presenters: Anh Bui and Fred Slone Wednesday, August 8 at 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern With data visualization and image-heavy content becoming large parts of today's information landscape, the DIAGRAM Center brings together the leading minds in image accessibility to realize its mission of making it easier, faster, and more cost effective to create and use accessible images so that students with print disabilities have timely access to the information they need. This session will cover the free tools and standards that the DIAGRAM Center, managed by Benetech and funded by OSEP, is developing. Poet, DIAGRAM's free web-based tool for adding image descriptions to books, will be demonstrated. We'll also see how Benetech's accessible digital library Bookshare is using DIAGRAM's work to make image descriptions available in the collection. Register at the following link: http://easi.cc/clinic.htm/#august -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Wed Aug 22 06:54:52 2012 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:54:52 +0200 Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] DIAGRAM short Survey on Teaching with Accessible Image Description Message-ID: Forwarding from another list To List, (re-sending due to error messages) We need your participation ASAP !! A short DIAGRAM *Survey on Teaching with Accessible Image Description.* - this survey aims to gather information from educators who are tasked with providing accessible materials to students who are visually impaired. The information gathered will help illustrate how and if image description is currently used in the educational environment. The survey is purposefully brief, and limited to identifying needs in the field to more efficiently target future training programs. The outcome of this survey could benefit many. Here is the survey link: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/972488/DIAGRAM-Survey-on-Teaching-with-Accessible-Images Thank you! ----------- Laurie Vasquez Assistive Technology Specialist Santa Barbara City College Santa Barbara, Ca. 93109 *Phone:* (805) 965-0581 ext. 2529 *Email*: vasquez at sbcc.edu *Fax:* 805 884 4966 -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Wed Aug 29 08:56:01 2012 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:56:01 +0200 Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] Database for tactile /accessible graphics Message-ID: Hello all, Have not sent emails for awhile. Will try to remedy this. Have a question and hope you can help. Do you have any suggestions or experiences with databases for tactile/accessible graphics? Could be either for just inhouse use or free online database. Even if you do not have one now, do you have any wishes, thoughts, suggestions about how they should be? Thanks for any help. Best, Lisa -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From fnugg at online.no Wed Aug 29 12:44:28 2012 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:44:28 +0200 Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] =?windows-1252?q?Vincent_Van_Gogh=3A_Colo?= =?windows-1252?q?rblind=3F=2C=91About_Seeing=92_exhibition_-_Madison?= Message-ID: <503E0EAC.6090207@online.no> Vincent Van Gogh: Colorblind? App Sheds Light On Master Painter's Work excerpt Was van Gogh colorblind? At first blush, the question seems absurd. But a new tool developed by Kazunori Asad, a Japanese vision expert, breathes fresh life into the seemingly-preposterous theory. Asad says he first noticed certain characteristics of van Gogh's work could indicate colorblindness while giving a speech in Hokkaido, Japan, on color deficiencies. An exhibit there cast the artist's masterpieces in various lights, attempting to replicate how they'd be perceived by people with one or more defective sets of cones, a structure in the eye used to view color. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/vincent-van-gogh-colorblind-app_n_1834226.html ?About Seeing? offers visions from artists with limited sight When the lines on the tennis court began to wave and wobble, Dan O?Neal knew something was wrong. excerpt ?I kept blinking my eye and blinking my eye,? he said. There was ?a giant gray area? in the center of his left eye. When O?Neal went to the doctor, the diagnosis was crushing: macular degeneration, which robs a person of the central part of his vision in one or both eyes. O?Neal, a Stevens Point artist, makes his living as an oil painter of still lifes and portraits. ?To take away something that you cherish the most ? is like cutting you at the knees,? O?Neal said. ?You are knocked down. I did not know what was going to happen.? A chronological series of O?Neal?s paintings, from pre-degeneration through surgery to his post-op work, are part of a new exhibition called ?About Seeing? at the James Watrous Gallery on the third floor of the Overture Center. The show opens Friday, Aug. 31 ... Chuck Close is a contemporary artist with prosopagnosia, or face blindness ? he can?t recognize faces, even those he?s closest to. A 1981 portrait on display in ?About Seeing? looks like a pixilated gray blur. The second half of the show focuses on work by O?Neal and two other artists ? Madison artist Tom Linfield, who works in pencil, oil pastels and mosaic, and Heidi Lasher-Oakes, a sculptor who taught at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. ... ABOUT SEEING James Watrous Gallery, third floor of Overture Center, 201 State St. Aug. 31-Oct. 14; exhibition opening Sunday, Sept. 9, 2-5 p.m. FREE wisconsinacademy.org/gallery/about-seeing Additional talks in the gallery: Saturday, Sept. 29, 3-4:30 p.m.: Color: More than Meets the Eye, a gallery talk and demonstration with chemist Rodney Schreiner (in conjunction with the Wisconsin Science Festival). Friday, Oct. 5, 7 p.m.: Gallery talk with artist Tom Linfield in conjunction with MMoCA?s Gallery Night. Sunday, October 7, 2?3:30 p.m.: Gallery talk with artist Dan O?Neal and ophthalmologist Barbara Blodi on the changes in O?Neal?s color perception after he developed macular degeneration, and the ?eye-mind? relationship revealed through brain-imaging. http://host.madison.com/entertainment/arts_and_theatre/visual/about-seeing-offers-visions-from-artists-with-limited-sight/article_f94b088c-8364-5445-bedb-d42eb8abe2e4.html From fnugg at online.no Wed Aug 29 13:35:11 2012 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:35:11 +0200 Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] Art exhibitions Message-ID: <503E1A8F.8080101@online.no> link to video clip and article New NT Art Gallery Exhibit Helps Visually Impaired NORTH TONAWANDA, NY-- A young North Tonawanda graduate student has taken an old storefront and turned it into an unique art gallery in the heart of the Lumber City. Project 308 Gallery is located at 308 Oliver Street in NT. They opened their doors about 2 weeks ago. The curator is 24-year-old Natalie Brown, who's working on a Master Degree in Art History and Museum Studies at the University at Buffalo. Her first installation is called "Tactile Optics: Seeing through Feeling". And it's attracting a special audience. http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/179533/37/New-NT-Art-Gallery-Exhibit-Helps-Visually-Impaired article What the world looks like for the colour blind An insight into the art of Vincent Van Gogh may allow us to see what it's like to live with colour blindness. The famed 19th century artist has long been suspected to have been colour vision deficient, or colour blind, when he painted his famous pieces of artwork. Van Gogh is famed for his bold brush strokes and use of colour, which have led many to speculate that he was over-compensating for his colour blindness http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/14686997/what-the-world-looks-like-to-the-colourblind/ The incredible images that show how a colour-blind person sees the world (and why it might explain Van Gogh's genius) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2194293/How-insight-Van-Goghs-vision-shape-understanding-colour-blindness--change-view-Masters-work.html?ito=feeds-newsxml article Deaf and Blind School Teaches Under One Roof This is very innovative on a campus that has both deaf and blind students," said Assistant Principal Keith Van Fossen. "Having them both within the same facility in unique. We're one of the first, that I know of in the United States." "An art teacher who is deaf is going to teach blind students art with a voice interpreter," said Superintendent Nancy Armstrong. "Our ASL instructor who is deaf will teach some blind, visually impaired students ASL, which is American Sign Language, using interpreters." http://www.whsv.com/news/headlines/Deaf-and-Blind-School-Teaches-Under-One-Roof-167488945.html?ref=945 blog Design Details No. 8 - Tactile Map at the Musiikkitalo, Helsinki... A few images of the tactile guide map at the Musiikkitalo (Music House) in Helsinki, which not only includes a tactile/ topographical representation of the building's various layers and spaces, but also uses a select set of different materials - each with its own unique texture and temperature - to distinguish and amplify the readability (including visual clarity) of the guide... http://smarchitecture.blogspot.no/2012/08/design-details-no-8-tactile-map-at.html tactile maps aerbvi.org .../documents/brauner-Mapdirections-handout1.doc Arty Margaret wins art contest - despite being blind ARTISTIC FLARE: Care home resident Margaret Whittaker has won a national art competition -- despite being almost completely blind. The 85-year-old, who lives at Hempstalls Hall Care home, Newcastle, used paints and felt tip pens to create a picture depicting the events of 2012. http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Arty-Margaret-wins-art-contest-despite-blind/story-16766519-detail/story.html Louisiana Association for the Blind offers creative arts program Mattie Johnson discovered her inner vision as her eyes failed. Johnson draws, paints and practices sculpture techniques in an art program at the Louisiana Association for the Blind in Shreveport. Her works are among those hanging in the halls of the LAB's Low Vision Rehabilitation Center. Instructor Patty McAllister --- who's losing her sight to macular degeneration --- started the program in January. The classes are part of a multi-pronged approach to help people facing blindness or limited vision learn independent living skills. McAllister covers art history, theory and design techniques. Besides allowing creativity, the program lets clients practice learning with their sense of touch. Field trips to Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport also give them a chance to navigate with canes, an essential skill http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20120825/LIVING02/120824037/Louisiana-Association-Blind-offers-creative-arts-program Silhouette artist Karl Johnson works his magic at Hicklebee's in San Jose Snipping his way through approximately 90 sittings, silhouette artist Karl Johnson made his second visit in two years to Hicklebee's bookstore on Aug. 14. Following in his father Edward's footsteps, Johnson started making silhouette portraits at the age of 12 and has been working professionally at this now rare art form since 1985. It is all the more remarkable since he was born legally blind in his left eye. Using a single pair of German steel surgical scissors handed down to him by his dad, Johnson travels around the world approximately 100 days a year, creating lasting memories in just 90 seconds. "There's a rhythm to the cutting," Johnson says as pieces of paper flutter to the floor while he works on creating a silhouette of his current client, a squirmy 3-year-old sitting on his mother's lap. Johnson's work has also become a favorite of Hollywood celebrities, and he has created his timeless keepsakes for the likes of Steven Spielberg, Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Lopez, to name just a few. For more information about Karl Johnson and his silhouette artistry, visit www.cutarts.com . http://www.mercurynews.com/san-jose-neighborhoods/ci_21387990/silhouette-artist-karl-johnson-works-his-magic-at Link sent by Simon Hayhoe Festival de Cinema de Gramado exibe filme 'Colegas' com audiodescri??o http://g1.globo.com/rs/rio-grande-do-sul/noticia/2012/08/festival-de-cinema-de-gramado-exibe-filme-colegas-com-audiodescricao.html Blind and Low-Vision Artists Translate Their "Mind's Eye" Through Artwork MILWAUKEE---An art exhibition held here last month featured the work of nine artists, some blind and some with low vision, working in a variety of media: photography, sculpture, watercolors, collage and tactile. Hosted by a coalition of non-profits in Wisconsin that support people with vision loss, "Through the Lens of Others: A Tribute to the Vision of the Mind's Eye" was held at the Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin Eye Institute in conjunction with Connections in Sight . http://www.visionmonday.com/ViewContent/tabid/211/content_id/36215/catId/307/Default.aspx From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Tue Sep 25 09:26:51 2012 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:26:51 +0200 Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] LAST SEATS AVAILABLE for the Multimodal Approaches to Learning Conference at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Message-ID: Hi, Forwarding from Marie Clapot. Note - did not include .pdfs for registration and schedule. Contact Marie at aeb at artbeyondsight.org or call (212) 334-8723 for these. Sounds like an excellent conference. Best, Lisa Fra: Marie Clapot, Project Coordinator, Art Beyond Sight [mailto:aeb at artbeyondsight.org] Sendt: 24. september 2012 17:06 Til: Marie Clapot, Project Coordinator, Art Beyond Sight Emne: LAST SEATS AVAILABLE for the Multimodal Approaches to Learning Conference at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Dear 2012 ABS Month participants, If you have not yet purchased your tickets for the Fourth Multimodal Approaches to Learning Conference, now is your last chance. Check out the program, speakers and optional events at: http://artbeyondsightconference.blogspot.com/ This conference has become a forum for cross-disciplinary creative thinking and the exchange of ideas. We will continue to foster dialogue between such diverse disciplines as neuroscience, cognitive psychology, education, museum studies, disability and cultural studies, technology, architecture, product design, and media art. Conference participants and organizers aim to define a framework for engaging diverse audiences through multimodal experiences, and identify new trends and innovation in learning and museum practice. Attached are the registration form and schedule. If you have difficulty opening the files, let me know and I will resend in the body of an email. I can be reached at aeb at artbeyondsight.org or call (212) 334-8723. Please pass along to staff or anyone who might be interested. Sincerely, Marie Clapot Marie Clapot Project Coordinator/Educator Art Beyond Sight 589 Broadway, 3rd fl. New York, NY 10012 (212) 334-8723 fax:(212) 941-6024 www.artbeyondsight.org www.nybeyondsight.org www.projectaccessforall.org -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services-