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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Century Gothic">Thank you so much, Linda, for your
encouragement and inspiration. Of course, no "lesson" or experience is "wasted!
Maybe that's why I like circles and arches...everything eventually comes
around!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Century Gothic">Patty</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Patty,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So nice to hear a little of your story. I am a
retired art professor and taught studio art courses as well as art history for
years in an expensive private college in PA.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I lost my sigth just 4 years ago, and I used my
sight loss as a reason to make enormous changes in my life and my art. Instead
of painting and printmaking and weaveing, I am now doing pottery. It had been
over 20 years ago that I had done pottery in college, and with the sight loss
I decided to give it a try again - because at that time I had no help, did not
know that rehab existed, and was really lost at sea. A friend took me to
pottery classes with her, and there I began all over again. But, the
wonderful thing is that my HANDS remembered how to FEEL the clay and very
quickly I became ONE with the CLAY and we were a team, the clay and me,
working together to create something amazing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Before my sight loss, I have had no experience
with blind people, and was unaware of anything that could be done by blind
people who wanted to make art. Nothing in my past academic experiences had
prepared me for the transition into this new world. But, somehow, I
instictively knew that I was an artist and that was something that nothing
could ever take away from me. I was an artist and my entire body, mind, and
spirit knew it. All I had to do was begin again. And, I did!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Finding NFB has been fantastic, too, because I am
now in touch through the internet with others like me who have faced
challenges and come through them by learning to adapt and make art in new
ways.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One thing I will say about your past art
experiences at college is that you have a CORE of knowlege and there is no
substitute for that. You are so fortunate to have it - you have a
structure, a core, something that gives you a place to stand on and now you
can come on from there to do YOUR art, whatever that may be. All our
past experiences have led us to this place - nothing is ever lost or useless
to us. It is our story, and our own personal and creative
history.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lynda Lambert</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=pece03@gmail.com href="mailto:pece03@gmail.com">Patricia C.
Estes</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=artists-making-art@nfbnet.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:58
AM</DIV>
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<DIV>Heather, you are exactly right and your experience not unique! I grew
up with an artist/art teacher for a mom and all four of us kids were so
"into" art that we would make the local paper (desperate for human interest
stories in a small town in Maine!) and my dad would say:"You kids should
paint rocks and sell them to tourists!" Which sounded absurd to us, but is
exactly is what is sold in tacky-trinkets shops all along our coast! But
more to the point, my counselor from the state said that "blind people can't
go to Rhode Island School of Design", which is just the kind of sketching I
did by the hour every day. OK. I applied to one of the U of Maine campuses
known for graduating successful artists. "No. Blind kids can't go to a big
campus." OK. So, I applied to a small college with an Ivy League
reputation and price tag and was admitted my junior year in high school. But
when I got there, I found out that they only taught classical art
appreciation and art, with no real major in art. I was there for two years,
started a family and four children and nine grand children later, I am back
to *MY* art. </DIV>
<DIV>Although my mother encouraged me and said that I had a way of reducing
a form to it's simplest lines, I am only in this last year picking it up
again. I've had more vision loss and my stuff is very different from ten or
twenty years ago. But it's mine and I just have an inner need to paint,
write or re-shuffle the house. And I hear you about the health problems,
they are trying to decide whether or not I have MS or Lyme...what's the diff
if your hand shakes??!</DIV>
<DIV>NFB has always been inspiring and so is this group. Heather, perhaps
our "stories" could encourage young creative spirits to "go for it"!</DIV>
<DIV>I worked with a Creativity Coach for a bit about a year ago. Her basic
point is that we are all "creative creatures" and brought my attention (and
intention) to the fact that I just live creatively....and to expand that
where ever I can. People always comment on the colors I wear....maybe they
think that's the way blind people dress, because we can't see...or don't
have a clue...what we are wearing! Even just that feels good.</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Century Gothic">Here's to Creatively encouraging
all of us and to passing it along to the future!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Century Gothic">Patty Estes</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Century Gothic">Maine</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Century Gothic">"Attitude is the mind's
paintbrush."</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<A title=hkdawn@yahoo.com href="mailto:hkdawn@yahoo.com">Heather
Kirkwood</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=artists-making-art@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:artists-making-art@nfbnet.org">An exploration of art by and
for blind persons</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 19, 2011 11:23
PM</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>Personal blog: <A
href="http://www.heatherkirkwood.blogspot.com/" target=_blank
rel=nofollow>www.heatherkirkwood.blogspot.com</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Search the Web at <A
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rel=nofollow>www.goodsearch.com</A> and choose the HPS Network
as your charity! </FONT></DIV>
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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:
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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?
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kendra Schaber </FONT></DIV>
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2011 12:36 PM</DIV>
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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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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Tactile Art - a creative way to see
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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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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
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