[Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!
Patricia C. Estes
pece03 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 23 18:48:10 UTC 2014
Linda, if you come across a way to read the book Ann suggested, please let me know.
I am not sure how BLIO works, but we do have an account.
As a lover of art and displays and museums (I just am so curious about the choice of color for walls in a museum! I could go on, but will spare you.) and as a blind person navigating museum space, I totally agree with Ann's suggestion of different walls.
While I understand the creative and practical use of space for an exhibit, unpredictable, independent "walls" and pedestals in the middle of the exhibit room is troubling, sometimes! I am a good traveler, but if a traffic pattern for the space isn't organized, I end up missing some pieces. Maybe I am just too controlling!! hmmm...
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From: Lynda Lambert
To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:21 AM
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You have both been so helpful to me - the Braille Labeling was something I was agonizing over because I had no idea how to do it. And, also the comments you gave me about keeping the tactile on a different set of walls than the visual so as to avoid problems. This was really what I needed to know. I really appreciate the book recommendation and maybe I can get it some other way than through Bookshare? Any thoughts on that?
Keep me in mind for good books on art making and blind issues, please. I am a raw beginner at this and it is me who is learning as fast as I can, Patti! So great to talk with you.
Lynda
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From: Patricia C. Estes
To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 8:56 PM
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Anna, thank you for the name and author of that book. I would love to read it and I hope I can find an audio version.
Brainstorming does get the creative juices going, but I have to hand it to Linda and all of the effort that went into preparing her work for exhibit...essays and all.
I guess an artist knows what type of art they do. But Wicky notwithstanding, I was thrilled to let my mind roam with the larger meaning of "conceptual art" and am going with that. I like this new found limitless view. My mother may not have been a conventional teacher, but the "creativity" in our home was very conventional and traditional...even geometrics was risky. .
Great stuff, Anna! Thank you-
Patty
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From: Ann at acunningham.com
To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 7:52 PM
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There is so much to learn isn't there? I trust Lynda isn't against touch art, she just isn't focused on it.
Lynda is creating conceptual art and I am creating tactile art and Pete Brown is creating multi-sensory art.
Wikipedia's definition of Conceptual Art is:
Conceptual art, sometimes simply called Conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many works of conceptual art, sometimes called installations, may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions.[1] This method was fundamental to American artist Sol LeWitt's definition of Conceptual art, one of the first to appear in print:
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.[2]
I am a big fan of Conceptual Art and I can hardly wait to see what Lynda is up to. My art being tactile is all about the mind / hand connection. I love seeing what kind of acrobatics I can get them to do. It is endlessly fascinating to me to make amusement parks for my hands and to see how my mind reacts.
We should get Pete Brown in on this discussion because he is very focused on multi-sensory art, perhaps the most intentionally inclusive of all. Maybe yes, maybe no. I would love to hear what he has to say about it.
I would also like to suggest Busser Howell, he is the author of 20/20 Blindsight and his input would be really interesting to have too. He has very strong opinions and they are not at all mine. If you haven't read his book you might pick it up. He is a blind painter and he interviews about 20 or so blind artists and asks specific questions about how they conceive of art. It is a book unlike any other and it has given me lots to think about.
Patty, I think you are genius, maybe we can put together an art fair at NFB in Baltimore and all decorate the barricades! I would love nothing better!
Back to work - thanks to you all this conversation is very fun. Ann
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: "Patricia C. Estes" <pece03 at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, January 22, 2014 3:16 pm
To: "An exploration of art by and for blind persons"
<artists-making-art at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Amber Mooney <AMooney at theiris.org>
AnnaAnna,
I told you that I am learning as fast as I can.
Let me share with you Lesson Number One:
You can't say "tactile art" in front of Linda...she does not want to exclude the sighted, or even imply it. Isn't this genius?
Lesson Number Two:
It is called "Conceptual Art"...I think I've got that right.
Words mean things and this word "conceptual" is so freeing to me, and inclusive, too!
It is exciting and I have no idea how many are receiving our e-mails...this list serve may think this Mainiac is just that! But I feel this will spread, precisely because of no boundaries.
Ahhh! "Art without Borders"!
Here's to the Tipping Point forshared experience in art and the message of Dr. Jernigan (in my little opinion...hey! "on the barricades"...what if we decorate it???)
Have a good evening-
Patty Estes
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From: Ann at acunningham.com
To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 4:22 PM
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Hi Lynda, I have been reading yours and Patty's exchange and am very excited to hear what you guys are cooking up. I would love to be included if I could in the next program and the discussion with the organizers. I teach art at the Colorado Center for the Blind. I am a tactile artist who is sighted. I would love to take workshops from artists who are blind. That is a great idea.
I am on my way out to purchase materials for our next exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. We have a new Access Coordinator who is wonderful and we are now making tactile as well as other accessible elements for all the shows. We have been working together on this program since the early 2000s but it seems like now it is really ready to take off. It helps a great deal that the Denver Art Museum has placed enough value on the role of the Access Coordinator to make it a full time job and not an additional part to someone's job.
All the best wishes for your upcoming show.
Ann
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.co
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Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!
From: "Lynda Lambert" <llambert at zoominternet.net>
Date: Wed, January 22, 2014 1:56 pm
To: "An exploration of art by and for blind persons"
<artists-making-art at nfbnet.org>
Good Afternoon, Patty,
So very nice to get your comments - and the humor you have here made me smile and sit back and reflect awhile as i listened to the note.
I just send off the publicity blurbs for our March show, and sent off the labeling to the Blind Association here in my county - they will be doing the labeling for us. I am so excited to do this!
OH, I forgot to mention that the Touch Art program is NOW beginning to think about and brainsorm the next round of workshops. AND, we have the notion that the next time we can be doing BLIND artists TEACHING blind folded sited persons how to make art the way WE DO IT. HOW does that sound? I think it is very exciting - WE are the TEACHERS, they are the LEARNERS perhaps.
If you want to contact the program directors who put that all together I will give you their email addresses by sending an introductory note to them so you THREE can have communications. OK? They can answer any questions you have since they are the founders and owners of the Touch Art Program in Pittsburgh, PA. Perhaps something could be done to connect what they do with NFB artists in the future in some way. Just thinking out loud. lol
Lynda
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From: Patricia C. Estes
To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons
Cc: Amber Mooney
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!
Oh, Linda! Thank you for your time and teaching! You are exactly right and Dr. Jernigan would be pleased. He'd be winking at me,"Ahhh, Patty! You are not thinking this through!" I love learning and to combine it with philosophy and art...just wonderful.
I don't mean to gush, Linda, but oh well!
Thank you and I am sharing this information from you with Amber Mooney from the Iris Network.
Patty Estes
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From: Lynda Lambert
To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 6:53 AM
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Enclosed: 3 essays to accompany 3 of my art works -
http://triblive.com/aande/moreaande/5340854-74/art-arts-vision#axzz2qftU80BU
I had to laugh at the tactile art description you gave here. I understand!!!
My own art is made exactly as I made my art for the past 30 plus years - I do not think "tactile" at all, but I think "conceptual art." Since I lost my sight 7 years ago, this is something I have encountered, that a blind artist would not be held to the same standards as a sighted artist. That would put me in a very tenuous position, as an artist. When I enter my work in exhibitions it is almost never known by the juror that I have sight loss. It is only after the work is on exhibition that anyone comes to know that about the artist who made it. Blind artists must be held to the same standards as any other artist who expects to be included in high quality exhibitions, I believe.
The event that occurred last week was a culmination of a series of workshops taught by professional artists who worked with blind people - the artist had to learn HOW blind people learn things and how they envision concepts, and how to place or use the tools and materials so that they are usable to the blind person.
All of the people who took these workshops were blind - and some of them were artists in other mediums than what they did at the workshops, but most had no art background. They had the desire to learn and as with all people, no sight is ever necessary to use the imagination and intuition - which all artists must have to produce their work.
I have no experience in putting together a show that is blind accessable - I will be doing it in March for the first time, at the Merrick Art Gallery, New Brighton, PA. It is a two-person exhibition with my pottery and mixed media fiber works, and a painter who is legally blind. We both use the Acrobat CCTV to produce our work. I use it for doing my mixed media pieces, but I use only touch for my pottery work.My vision is very low, considered to be "profound sight loss." The painter I am doing the show will is at the opposite end of the spectrum, and is "legally blind."
One problem for many people with a small amount of vision is the colors of the gallery and the pedestals - white and white. It is blinding to most people with sight loss. They need strong contrast to "see" the space - and to walk in the space. Since most shows have white pedestals, white walks, and wooden floors - it is a nightmare to navigate for a blind person. I can only see strong contrasts, and in such a light space, I have to have on special glasses because that much light would give me severe headaches, and make me unable to see anything at all. With contrasts, I do not even need to use my white cane as I can navagate the space very well.
The show we are doing in March will have braille labels along with text labels for the works. My pottery would be considered tactile and could be seen by touch - my mixed media works could not be touched at all - so they would hav to have a description. We will have a short video that will run on a loop - it will show the progression of some of the works from beginning to end - and it will have voices behind the photos of the works that will be describing the work and the process. But, it will not be an instructional kind of description - it will be carefully written essays or poems, that will be read. The essay will focus on the CONCEPT, with mention of process in it. I will enclose one of my essays that will accompany one of the pieces so you can get the idea I am working with.
If I can be of any further help, please just ask me. This is a very exciting thing, TOUCH ART, isn't it!
Lynda McKinney Lambert
http://www.lyndalambert.com
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From: Patricia C. Estes
To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 7:28 PM
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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
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From: Lynda Lambert
To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 5:47 PM
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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
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From: Ann at acunningham.com
To: An exploration of art by and for blind persons
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 1:04 PM
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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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