[Artbeyondsightmuseums] Touch Art blog, Legally blind photographer Angela Geis

Mon Oct 16 18:05:54 UTC 2017

Hello Sandra

I received a copy of your email this morning.
I am the Advisor to the Art Beyond Sight tour program at the Seattle Art
Museum.  SAM has offered described and tactile tours for vision loss
visitors on a monthly basis for 10 years.
The co-chairs and I would love to share ideas and details with you.

Please just email me and we will coordinate a conference call or additional
emails.

Take care.

Donnie Wilburn 

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Subject: Re: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] Touch Art blog, Legally blind
photographer Angela Geis

Dear Shirley

I came across this mail and see I never responded at the time Wonder if this
will reach you ?

I have been involved too with exploring approaches to tactile
interpretations of paintings and would be so interested in the information
that  you offer

with kind regards

Sandra

Sandra Eastwood
MAP Coordinator
Meaningful Access Projects

> On 24 Mar 2014, at 10:10 PM, Shirley Confino-Rehder <scr at univdesign.com>
wrote:
> 
> To All,
> 
> I developed a touch tour several years ago and it has been 
> successfully implemented in several museums including the the UA 
> Museum of Art and at the Time Machine (Miniature Museum) in Tucson on 
> a permanent basis, the Museum of Contemporary Art in VA Beach and the 
> Muscarelle Museum in Williamsburg, for selected shows, and the 
> Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, for descriptive tours.
> 
> The full tour consists of tactile paintings and description of the 
> paintings.  I will be glad to send you a copy of the tour, with 
> examples on how to do the description of the art work, and how to 
> create the tactile "paintings".
> 
> This is free, a low cost budget, and often can be done in-house for 
> the artwork and sent out for the completion of the tactile "painting".
> 
> Please don't hesitate to contact me for more information.
> 
> Shirley Confino-Rehder
> Shirley Confino-Rehder cid
> Chair, Norfolk Mayor's Commission for Persons with Disabilities Chair, 
> Hampton Roads Disabilities Board
> 
> 757 513-4880 Mobile
> 757 502-8255 Fax
> hrdb at univdesign.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/29/13 3:45 AM, "fnugg at online.no" <fnugg at online.no> wrote:
> 
>> Touch Art
>>  With funding from the Sprout Fund,  the Touch Art project is able to 
>> open new art making possibilities for people who are blind or 
>> visually impaired in Allegheny County. This traditionally 
>> under-served audience will have access to professional art making 
>> resources and engaging workshops with specially trained teaching artists.
>> Touch Art's six workshops will focus on tactile and three-dimensional 
>> art forms such as making memory vessels from fiber, hollow beads made 
>> from precious metal clay, hand building clay sound sculptures, and 
>> handmade paper. Touch Art creates an inclusive art-making space to 
>> develop the untapped creativity and art skills of an audience that 
>> has historically lacked access to art making.
>> The project also offers educational opportunities to local 
>> artist-teachers who will receive studio-specific accessibility training.
>> This process will be documented on film and shared with a larger 
>> audience of educators in a seminar for artists and educators. Through 
>> this educational seminar and public display of work, Touch Art hopes 
>> to expand the perceptions of Pittsburgh art-viewers throughout the city.
>> Working with artists who have visual impairments, art educators who 
>> want to make their classes more accessible and art audiences at 
>> large, Touch Art hopes to expand the perceptions of Pittsburgh 
>> art-viewers throughout the city, not only about aesthetics, but also 
>> about the capabilities of people who are blind or visually impaired.
>> http://touchartblog.wordpress.com/about/
>> 
>> Alt-week 7.27.13: The blind pixel-painter, redirecting the sun and 
>> Saturn's view of Earth 
>> http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/27/alt-week-7-27-13-the-blind-pixel-p
>> ainter/?u 
>> tm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget
>> 20/20 Blindsight: Powerful New Book Illuminates the Accomplishments & 
>> Challenges of Blind Artists 
>> http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/2020-blindsight-powerful-new-boo
>> k-illumin 
>> ates-the-accomplishments-challenges-of-blind-artists-290394.htm
>> 
>> Bits 'n' Pieces: Blind painter's watercolor vision rewarded Vancouver 
>> watercolor artist Susan Gustafson paints the world as she sees it, as 
>> her sight shrinks and dims.
>> Gustafson was diagnosed more than 30 years ago with retinitis 
>> pigmentosa, a progressive, degenerative genetic eye condition that 
>> squeezes her visual field into a tiny frame.
>> "So whatever I see is always a composition," she said. "My mother and 
>> brother are also blind, save for a few inches of light."
>> She will be honored with the Shared Visions Artists Award by the 
>> Marshall B. Ketchum University in California on Sept. 19 as part of 
>> its annual gala. Gustafson submitted her watercolor "Tulip Time" to 
>> the university's annual art show for visually impaired artists, 
>> earning Best of Show.
>> http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/aug/30/blind-painters-watercolor-v
>> ision-awa
>> rded/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Blind RAF veteran presents Andy Murray painting to tennis star's 
>> grandparents
>> 
>> 
>> Blind Tasmanian artist James Newton has recreated some of the world's 
>> famous artworks and pop culture icons using sock monkeys.
>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-15/artworks-and-pop-culture-icons-
>> recreated
>> -with-sock-monkeys/4957942
>> 
>> Our Colorado News : Artist Ann Jennings describes her new tactile art 
>> installation to celebrants at CCB's 25 birthday party as they feel 
>> their way around it
>> <http://www.ourcoloradonews.com/news/colorado-center-for-the-blind-ce
>> lebrates- 
>> turning/article_220ecd00-1fd5-11e3-b9d1-001a4bcf887a.html?mode=story>
>> http://celebrated-her-25th-birthday.rsspump.com/?key=20130909002537.d
>> kny-celeb
>> rating-25th-birthday
>> 
>> 
>> video and article
>> Legally blind photographer Angela Geis shares giftPhotography is a 
>> visual art that often requires strong eye focus, but for 
>> photographers who are legally blind, like Angela Geis, it's a unique
gift.
>> 
>> She chooses black and white photography of cemeteries and bleak 
>> landscapes not for depth, history and emotions, but because they're 
>> more artistic.
>> 
>> "It was amazing how people took time back in the day to spend time on 
>> the architectural," said Geis."It is just easier for me to take 
>> still-life things and it's always been an interest of mine."
>> 
>> Angela Geis has been taking pictures since she was a child.
>> 
>> "Then it wasn't until I took an Art of Psychology at NEU and part of 
>> the course work was to contact a professional artist in a field of 
>> our interest and so, sense photography kind of interests me."
>> http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/disability_issues&id=92
>> 57328
>> 
>> Angela Geis
>> 
>> http://visionsinthedark.net/Visons_In_the_Dark/Welcome.html
>> 
>> 
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