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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hello<BR><BR>My name is Kestrell and I live in the Boston
area. I am totally blind, but was low vision until my early twenties. Growing
up, I was an art <BR>student. <BR><BR>For the past few years, I have been
helping to organize a tactile art show for a Boston-area science fiction
convention, and it resparked my interest in making and appreciating art, so last
year about this time, I decided that I wanted to get more art in my life.
A number of great events, such as this list, seem to have occurred during
this year. Another great event was the visit of Simon Hayhoe, an academic who
studies and writes books about teaching art to blind people (you can find his
books on Bookshare, and he also has a Web site which you can find through his
Wikipedia entry).<BR><BR>I've been trying different art media, including tactile
tapestrymaking (I use things like ribbon, hemp cord, beads, and fabric for
this), wire sculpture, and tie-dying. On Thursday, the blind crafters list will
be having a class on creating tie-dye with permanent marker, so I'm looking
forward to that, as it is a lot less messy than using powder dyes and gives the
artist a lot more control.<BR><BR>I've also been blogging about different
resources I have found and writing a book about my experiences reintroducing
myself to art as a blind person.<BR><BR>Kestrell<BR><A
href="http://kestrell.livejournal.com">http://kestrell.livejournal.com</A> </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>