[Artists-making-art] Artists-making-art Digest, Vol 16, Issue 3
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From: "Patricia C. Estes" <pece03 at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] making art
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Again, thanks for this info...will see how to get on the Crafters' Corner
list serve.
Patty
----- Original Message -----
From: Lynda Lambert
To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2014 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] making art
Hi Amy and Patty,
This conversation is for anyone who is interested in participating, Amy.
Patty, I did not realize I had sent out the list email address to Kirsten
Ervan who runs the Touch Art program, so she was not able to respond - I do
think you have to be on the list to respond and participate - which makes
sense. In the event that there are some folks here who can see a bit via
use of Zoomtext or some other program like that (this is how I see things on
the computer) I will attach a photo of me with a piece of my work and a copy
of a recent article. The photo appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
newspaper a couple weeks ago, along with a story on the Touch Art Seminar
where I was one of the panelists. I am not involved with the program,
except for doing a discussion at the seminar, but it is a very wonderful
program that brings sighted and blind people together to make art and have
fun in the process.
Amy, there is another list through NFB that you may be interested in
contacting, too. It is the Krafters-Korner group, and through that group
blind people can learn how to do just about anything in arts or crafts you
may want to do. They teach classes through conference calls - which is
amazing. I taught several classes this way for the group - I taught an
Intro. to Pottery, and several hands-on pottery making courses. It was fun
for all of us. I have also taken a number of courses with the group, too.
So, look them up and see what might be there for you to learn.
There are also "tools" that can enable blind people to draw - there
are so many things available for learning how to make art through tactile
means - that group can give you lots of additional information on it all.
I will be a speaker at the "President's Conference on Disabilities and
Inclusion" at Slippery Rock University of PA in March. I will do two
different presentations at this conference.
Presentation Number One: Myths of Blindness: Next Steps to Recovery and
Rehabilitation.
Presentation Number Two: Vision and Revision: Making Art with Limited
Sight, Not Limited Vision.
As part of both of the presentations, I will have a display of my
art, both pottery and mixed-media fiber works.
And, of course, I will have some pieces that are "in-process" so that the
people attending can understand how I work non-visually and/or with
technologies to produce my work. And, I will talk about the possibilities
that are taking form for artists who are blind, exhibition opportunities,
and how they can have a very creative and satisfying life in the arts.
I'd be interested in hearing stories from others who are making art
and exhibiting in galleries or museums, too. Art is about communication and
this is how we communicate through our gifts in art, by showing what we do
and bringing others into our world through the work of our hands. I do
believe, as Patricia has said, that art is a common ground where everyone
can meet - and everyone can enjoy. And, yes, Patty, you mention the pure
magic of it all - that is what I feel, too. I say, 'My art is pure magic.
Come and have an experience for yourself when you enter the gallery." My
sight loss has only intensified my love of art, and in many ways, has
expanded it and made it even richer and deeper.
Love hearing from you all!
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: Amy Ragain
To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] making art
sorry to butt in here but I have been following along with your convo. I
wish you guys could somehow teach me what you do. I used to love to draw
when I was younger. now I can't see well enough to do or so I thought
anyway...
anyway, perhaps the motterator can tell me if I'm correct or not but I
don't think you have to be a member of the NFB to message the list. I
thought you only had to join the list.
On Feb 1, 2014, at 8:31 PM, Patricia C. Estes wrote:
Good evening,
Art in all forms is just plain fascinating. You are kind to ask me
about how I became "inspired." But first...
I didn't know one had to be in NFB to be on this list. Too bad-for
NFB! I am so glad that Suzanne tried to reach out to me-have her try my
personal email:
pece03 at gmail.com
I, too, have Stargart's and was found to be legally blind by age
eleven. But before that I was far-sighted and can recall that. I think the
way to describe my vision, now at age 60, is that it is like an
Impressionist painting-it has gone from like a Renoir to more washed out
like a Monet (who they now think had RP). I would be so pleased to speak
with Suzanne, and you, too-but you are pretty busy!
Linda, I have a conference call number that I have used for my
Holistic Healthcare & Psychology business and if you ever want to talk as a
small group, it is no problem to use that line.
Our daughter-in-law's family is from Scranton, is that anywhere near
your exhibits coming up?
I think art, details and writing is just in me. But it didn't hurt to
have a self-taught artist and art teacher for a mom! All four of us kids
produced several pieces through our up bringing just as a part of normal
activity in the house. Mom taught me by age five or so about drawing
perspective by using a square with a point on the horizon line to draw a
barn-kids find those "tricks" fascinating! Then to corral us all and slow us
down, she would put a piece of paper in front of each of us. Then she would
draw three lines of varying styles on our paper and tell us to make a
picture out of it and sometimes she would time us. These were our games with
her-no Candyland, thank goodness.
Art pencils and erasers were always around and I still had quite a bit
of vision and loved to sketch and would draw a portrait from a photo, sketch
dried oak leaves but mostly spent hours daily drawing fashion design. I went
from realism to the minimalist and suggestive lines of fashion. I didn't
want to go through all of the intro art at the Liberal Arts college (Colby)
I went to-"The History of Art" was a staple on our coffee tables and often
part of discussion-especially as Mom lectured on art appreciation and had a
fun way to take apart the Mona Lisa and then reconstruct the genius of it,
in spite of the ill proportioned body parts.
I say it was all a part of me because when my dad (Yankee that he
was) suggested making money with art talents (He told us to paint rocks and
the tourists would buy them...what a silly thought! and it sounded like
work...the selling part.) and when my English professor suggested that my
writing could be published, that sounded like work, too. I just do what I
do. Sharing what I do for the fun and love of it is entirely another thing.
Now, as I have returned to art with much less vision, I am sorting out
what it is that I do. I like working with mica, spraying paint and discover
lots of uses for doo-dads like feathers and sand paper and old lace and
pressed flowers. But would love to work with large clumps of oil paints!
Linda, I can't imagine losing sight so suddenly. What you are doing is
an illustration not only of your spirit, but also of the creative drive. I
certainly agree with you that most people do not think of things like
artists do or even those who appreciate art do. Everything around us is
magical. Painting a sky at sunset the way it is truly playing out...well,
people would find the painting or image unbelievable. Nature is the Master
Artist. And seeing balance and composition in every day life is such fun and
no accident.. It just all shows up as a gift!! And then there's textures,
textiles and a whole 'nother email!
OK...enough. I have no formal training and would not know how to do a
Touch Art sort of event and guide people through. But the concept is
irrestable! It would be great to have an art class in the large room at the
center. It is wonderful how you describe the sighted and the blind mingling
at an exhibit and how you are bringing art into hospitals...Do you really
think that the person in the next bed will turn down their TV??
I am exited about our discussion and know that there are no
coincidences-like Suzanne and I both having Stargart's, for one thing. I do
feel a sense of urgency because of the MS, but art and the peace that it
brings for me are my passion and can keep me in the game. (oh, y'know after
family, my faith and all that!) But what if art is the way to common ground
and a level playing field between sighted and blind?? This is most
exiting-Tipping Point exiting!
Off to bed with a head full of ideas!
Patricia Estes/Patty
207 344 8292
----- Original Message -----
From: Lynda Lambert
To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] making art
Patricia, my friend tried to send you a note but it was rejected by
the source as she is not a member of NFB. If you should want to talk with
her, I can give you her phone number or else you could send her an email
with her address.
I think it's so interesting that you have always made art and had a
life-long interest in art. It's so very different than what most people
would think about, isn't it.
She does not have a personal website. This will be her first
exhibition of her art work, ever! She has never participated in anything
like this before.
I think the way she is making the art is not tactile at all because
she uses a CCTV to do it. That would indicate to me that she is working
visually, but she is intentionally making some of the paintings tactile so
that people with sight loss can feel the images in them. She has stargardts
disease, so have been very gradually losing her sight over many years. She
has just been diagnosed about a year ago as being "legally blind" so she
still had a lot of vision, sees detail and color very clearly, she says. I
would be at the opposite range of the scale as I am about two steps away
from completely blind. My sight was lost very quickly, with Ischemic Optic
Neuropathy - that means something happened to make my optic nerve swell and
shut off oxygen to the brain and made me blind nearly instantly.
All of my pottery is made non-visually from beginning to end. I have
help with mixing my glazes - my hubby helps me with that. And, he helps me
when glazing to be sure that glaze has gone where I expected it to be.
How did you begin drawing? what inspired you to begin doing it, as
a child? Can you talk a little bit about how it all began and how you
experienced it during the process of art making? I am so interested in
learning more of what you do, Patricia.
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: Patricia C. Estes
To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] Introduction
Linda,
wonderful new venues (hospital/therapy settings) to appreciate art
and artists and the Inner Artist in each person.
Does your partner in these two exhibits, Suzanne, have a web site?
I am curious how she uses paint in a tactile way.
Your "story" is inspiring. My dream was to go to art school, but
growing up blind in Maine, I was told that "blind people can't do
art"...even though I was drawing with different leads, charcoal, etc for
hours daily. And now, as I come back to my art (which had gone the oil on
canvas route and now I "stick stuff to stuff", as you know), I have been
diagnosed with MS.
I take courage in your energy and persistence and imagination and
that you see clearly the spaces in daily life for beauty and creativity.
Patty Estes
----- Original Message -----
From: Lynda Lambert
To: Heather Kirkwood ; An exploration of art by and for blind
persons
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] Introduction
Hi Heather,
Wish you were near here, too!
Suzanne Gibson and I are working on two exhibitions for this
year - they are scheduled to be in western Pennsylvania.
Exhibition Title: Vision and Revision: Two artists with limited
sight, not limited vision.
Suzanne Gibson: Paintings on canvas (tactile)
Lynda Lambert: Pottery (Tactile) and Mixed Media Fibers/Bead
Working (Visual)
Show one: Merrick Art Gallery, New Brighton, PA
March 7 - April 3
On March 22, we will be in the gallery making art and
will have a "meet the artist and demo"
At the opening reception, we will do a short "Artists
Walk Through" of the show for people - each of us will talk about 2
of the works we have created for the show.
On another afternoon, I will meet with students in the
"Women in the Arts" course, at Geneva College.
I was the professor who created this course and taught it
before my retirement six years ago.
I will meet the class in the gallery. My discussion will
focus on three aspects:
historical context of the work in the show;
blindness issues and art making;
philisophical influences, personal world view, and concepts
that shape my work.
The Second Show will be in a very different kind of space. It
will be in Jameson hospital, New Castle, PA in a brand new wing that has
been created for urgent care. When the rchitects designed this place, they
planned for an exhibition space for artists that would bring in healing art.
The shows change every three months.
The show will be on display from April 14 - July 5th.
The format will be the same for the opening reception, and the
artist's demo mid-way into the show's run.
For both of these shows we will have Braille labeling along with
the regular wall text (thanks to the great advice I just got from Ann!
We will have a video of the two artists - with their work in
progress and showing time lapse of the work being created to the finished
product. For the video we have written some very short essays and poems
about art, sight loss, and doing the work. In the background of the video,
you can hear the stories of the artists and the works. This way a blind
person can get insight into the work even when they cannot see the work
visually. They can not only experience the making of the work, the finished
pieces, but the thought process of the artist during creation of the work.
The video will run on a loop in the gallery, and will also be
playing on small screens in other places for visitors to stop and have a
look and listen to the art/artists.
One of the venues I am brainstorming with plans to have my
ehxibition available to all patients in the hospital (that is not yet built)
via their TV screen. So even if they are bed fast and cannot come into the
gallery space, they can still visit the show through technology. That is in
the planning stages but not for a year or two following completion of the
building. You know, 50 percent of all new construction of Hospitals is
including art galleries - this is a new way of thinking about art, isn't it.
People are recognizing that art has healing powers, and that people who are
sick and those who are discouraged can be uplifted and even helped in the
healing process through experiencing art.
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: Heather Kirkwood
To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] Introduction
This work is so exciting. As you all get these shows
organized, please let us know! I'd love to advertise them to my membership
if they are open to the public. Wish I was in the areas myself so I could
go - grin!
Heather Kirkwood
Vice President/Chief Communications Officer
Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network
One South Road
Oyster Bay, NY 11771
1 (800) 789-9HPS
www.hpsnetwork.org
Personal blog: www.heatherkirkwood.blogspot.com
Search the Web at www.goodsearch.com and choose the HPS
Network as your charity!
HPS New York Conference - March 7 - 9, 2014
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:06 PM, Lynda Lambert
<llambert at zoominternet.net> wrote:
I am connecting you three to each other via this email as I
think there is mutual interest and information you may each have for sharing
with each other.
Kirsten and Tirzah are the founders, owners, and coordinators
of the Creative Citizens Studio in Pittsburgh, PA. they coordinated the
Touch Art Seminar, a series of workshops that brought blind and sighted
people together last fall, to make art, at one of Pittsburgh most notable
art institutions. It is a very successful endeavor.
Patricia Estes is working on creating blind friendly
exhibitions at a couple of galleries/museums in Maine, and she is connected
with the National Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, MD. She recently
contacted me with questions about the Touch Art Seminar after seeing the
Tribune Review article - so I think she would love to have more
conversations with you both since you have the answers!
This is so exciting on so many levels!
Lynda
Lynda McKinney Lambert, MFA
Artist, Educator, Author
104 River Road, Ellwood City, PA 16117
http://www.lyndalambert.com/wordpress
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