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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=hkdawn@yahoo.com
href="mailto:hkdawn@yahoo.com">Heather Kirkwood</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 19, 2011 11:23 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=artists-making-art@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:artists-making-art@nfbnet.org">An exploration of art by and for
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Artists-making-art] exhibit</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=5>I think it's a lot like what we teach kids about the
sciences, or other activities - that vision has nothing to do with what
you can choose to do in life, and what you might enjoy. Get out there, try
new things, and have fun! </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=5>My trouble with art as a kid was my art was always used
against me. Because I did something that everyone thought of as visual,
when my parents would try to get appropriate services for me, my art was
held up as proof that I didn't need them. In fact, I needed them quite
badly! I think loved ones also used my artwork to deny that I had bad
vision. Now, not sure how that works into a lesson, but just
saying....grin! I shouldn't have to choose in the sighted or blind world
as some sort of way to define my "vision" or lack thereof. One has little
to do with the other. I do what I do because I like it. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Heather Kirkwood</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Director of Outreach, Vice President</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>One South Road</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Search the Web at <A href="http://www.goodsearch.com/"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>www.goodsearch.com</A> and choose the HPS
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<DIV><FONT size=5><STRONG>HPS New York Conference - March 16-18,
2012</STRONG></FONT></DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 12/19/11, Kendra Schaber
<I><Baltimore777@comcast.net></I></B> wrote:<BR>
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Kendra Schaber <Baltimore777@comcast.net><BR>Subject: Re:
[Artists-making-art] exhibit<BR>To: "An exploration of art by and for
blind persons" <artists-making-art@nfbnet.org><BR>Date: Monday,
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi all, that would be an interesting idea!
If we were to do a workshop, we would have to think about what we would
want to teach blind children. What do you think? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Kendra Schaber </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><B>From:</B> <A
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<DIV>A tactile exhibit would be awesome. I'm going to be in
Dallis, and would help put something together. We should have
some sort of workshop for children or something as well, maybe?
What do you think. </DIV>
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<DIV>Is anyone interested in seeing if we can put together a tactile
art exhibit in Dallas at the 2012 NFB Convention? I know I would
like to show some new work. Anyone else care to ship art to Dallas
for the week or as much time as we can arrange? Ann</DIV>
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Art - a creative way to see the
world!</SPAN></EM></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=yiv1857918117MsoNormal>I was so
excited to learn of a list for artists at NFB. I am a
retired Professor of Fine Arts and Humanities. I lost my sight 4
years ago. I had been a painter/printmaker and after sight
loss I began making pottery. After four years of working on
relearning to do it non-visually, I am finally back to exhibiting
my work in juried exhibitions and just recently had my first
museum one-person exhibition last Sept./Oct.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=yiv1857918117MsoNormal>With the
aid of a great cc tv, the Acrobat, I have figured out how to once
again do encrusted beadworking, and I am extremely happy to be
doing that again. I had just started to learn it before my sight
loss. I had thought that I would never be able to do it again, but
I am!</DIV>
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