[Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!

[Patricia C. Estes]

Hi Linda,
Patty Estes in Maine here.
I am working with a woman from the Iris Center for the Blind to help to make our state museum and a couple of our more famous art museums (Portland Art Museum and the Farnsworth Museum with the Wyeth Center) accessible to the blind through audio description. We are just starting and I am wondering if you could point me to a process or standard that is used successfully.
Also, we have had an art exhibit by disabled people, but I am wondering if an art exhibit by blind artists needs/should/would be expected to be all tactile entries? Were there any visual pieces with description at the event you just participated in?

This is so wonderful-thank you for opening doors for the rest  of us!

Patty Estes
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lynda Lambert 
  To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 5:47 PM
  Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!


  Hi Ann,
  A film was made during the course of these workshops and it was launched at the seminar last Thursday afternoon.  It was a two hour program, with an enormous attendance of blind and sighted people.  There were many conversations happening between the two groups and lots of mingling and mixing - not a situation where blind people are here, and sighted people are there, and the two never really mix which is often the case. It was a most wonderful day, celebrating an entire series of interactive workshops since last summer. Discussions are now going on for developing the next round of programming and grant funding.  

  For the March show, I will be showing pottery and mixed-media fibers (bead working). AS for how many pieces:
  Fibers_ for Walls:  14

  Fibers_ Talisman: 8

  Pottery for Walls:  10

  Pottery_ For flat display: 

  Boxes:  16

  Platters:  3

  Installation Group: 1

  Bowls: 10



  Lynda

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Ann at acunningham.com 
    To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons 
    Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 1:04 PM
    Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!


    This is really fantastic, both the article and your art! Beautiful. I wish Be nice to get in touch with that piece.  Do you think the other artists might want to join us on this listserv? It would be nice to get more threads going. Congratulations. 
    Is there any chance I could listen to a recording of the panel discussion? 
    How many pieces do you anticipate having ready for your March exhibit?


    Ann Cunningham
    Tactile Art - a creative way to see the world!
    303 238 4760
    ann at acunningham.com
    http://www.acunningham.com
    http://www.sensationalbooks.com 



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      Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!
      From: "Lynda Lambert" <llambert at zoominternet.net>
      Date: Sat, January 18, 2014 8:08 am
      To: <riverwoman at gmail.com>


      Hello friends!
      I am so excited to be able to share this beautiful story with you today. It is in the today's issue of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review - you can read the story, and click on the photos. You'll find ME there, with my art work. The photo was taken after the Touch Art Seminar on Thursday, at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.  I was one of the four panelists at the seminar - and there was a large audience in attendance. It was such a fulfilling and educational day for all of us!

      My piece I am with in the photo in today's Tribune Review is:  The Dragon's Healing Breastplate.  It's  on display at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts,  just two more days, as part of The New Collective exhibition. 

      Click here to read the article:
      http://triblive.com/aande/moreaande/5340854-74/art-arts-vision#axzz2qftU80BU


      This particular art work  is so special to me because it's creation  became my pathway to the healing of my personal and professional life after I suffered  profound sight loss in 2007.  I had started work on this piece just prior to my sight loss. The piece became the driving force  that propelled me to wholeness. I was determined to be the ARTIST I had been my entire life, and I struggled through the creation of this work for nearly 6 (SIX) years before I was able to complete it. 

      You will be able to see this work, and many other of my newest pieces in an upcoming exhibition at the Merrick Art Gallery, New Brighton, PA. I'll be doing a 2 person show with Suzanne Gibson.  The opening will be Friday night, March 7th - from 6 - 9 pm. It will be a Wine and Cheese reception and I would be so pleased if you would mark your calendar and come see the new works in pottery and mixed-media bead working  I have done especially for this exhibition. 

      This is your PERSONAL invitation from ME!!! 

      Thanks a million for your long-time support of my art career.


      With best regards,
      Lynda McKinney Lambert, MFA
      Artist, Educator, Author
      104 River Road, Ellwood City, PA 16117
      http://www.lyndalambert.com

      You can visit my website (above) for current information on publications, exhibitions, lectures, and new work.





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