[Artbeyondsightmuseums] FW: {Spam?} Tactile Art Center,

[Lisa Yayla]

Hi Sushil,

I tried to find the reference for this - just a quick Google search, so not very in depth. The quote is from the article.

Thinking now one way is to ask the author of the article. If you find out could you post it?

Regards,

Lisa

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Emne: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] FW: {Spam?} Tactile Art Center,

Hi Lisa, in the message you mention that the 18th-tactile experience of art was common in the Century.

If I wanted to quote this fact, do you have a scholarly reference  of your own or from another scholar?

Thanks!
Sushil Oswal


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Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] {Spam?} Tactile Art Center,

Hi,

Sending links to an exhibition about two artist and tactile art plus, video about it - excerpt from the explanation with the vimeo video which I thought was very interesting.

"Prior to the mid-1800s, tactile interaction was commonplace for visitors experiencing collections of art, but as museums of art evolved, rules forbidding touch became the norm. In some cases, these were to protect artwork that truly was not meant to be touched, but in large part these norms had nothing do with preservation and everything to do with nineteenth century politics of gender, race and class control."

This new gallery show encourages you to get hands-on with art

When we think of going to an art gallery <https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/art/best-art-galleries-in-los-angeles>,
we tend to expect to be walking around, looking at pieces with our eyes and considering them from a few feet back. With a show opening on June 24, one West Hollywood gallery is challenging those preconceptions.

/Please Touch the Art/ at Cantor Fine Art <https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/art/cantor-fine-art> features a group of artists’ works which all share one thing in common: an invitation to get a little hands-on. They call the idea "tactile art."

As the gallery’s co-owner,  Sam Cantor, told LAist <http://laist.com/2016/06/16/please_touch_the_art.php>,  inspiration for the show grew out of a story he was told by Laguna Beach artist Andrew Myers. Myers specializes in crafting elaborate mosaic-like pieces from screws which he arranged at various heights and then painted, creating portraits with depth and texture evocative of topographical maps—and one day, a blind stranger walked in and put his hands on the art, almost as if it were printed in Braille. This lead Myers and Cantor to find the man, who turned out to be a furniture maker and artist in his own right, George Wurtzel, about whom Cantor made a short documentary, which you can see below. The experience left Cantor fascinated with the idea of tactile art and using the sense of touch in art and story-telling.

Next up for Wurtzel and the tactile art movement is a project to convert a former grape crushing barn in Napa into the first Tactile Art Center, a space fully dedicated to encouraging the blind to create, observe and sell art.

https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/blog/this-new-gallery-show-encourages-you-to-get-hands-on-with-art-061716

Please Touch the Art video


https://vimeo.com/166149898


http://www.gmwurtzel.com/

Please Touch All Of The Art At This West Hollywood Show

http://laist.com/2016/06/16/please_touch_the_art.php

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/a-rare-sight-app-allows-the-blind-to-see-photos-34631371.html

http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/facebooks-new-feature-for-visually-impaired-users

All in the Family: Artist Larry Walker Debuts at His Daughter’s Gallery

"The earliest works in the exhibition are from his 1960s Children of Society Series. The artist’s Remnant Series is made up of acrylic abstracts with collaged remnants of paper. When Larry started painting again in Atlanta, he continued the Figurative Series he had started in California. That work evolved into the Blindfold Series, a response to learning he had glaucoma.

“Contemplating the notion that I might go blind at some point in time, I started doing these figures that had blindfolds on. In another series, I did figures that had no eyes,” Larry said in the BOMB conversation."

http://www.culturetype.com/2016/06/19/all-in-the-family-artist-larry-walker-debuts-at-his-daughters-gallery/



Art Of The Visually Impaired On Exhibit In Plattsburgh

http://wamc.org/post/art-visually-impaired-exhibit-plattsburgh#stream/0

Artist volunteer wins volunteering award

http://www.charitytoday.co.uk/artist-volunteer-wins-volunteering-award/

Meet young artist Jamie Thomas — who cannot see, hear, taste or balance

http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/meet-young-artist-jamie-thomas-11463649

Art exhibtion opens at Bradford College

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/14550734.Blind_artist_s_loss_of_vision_influenced_her_exhibition_work/


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