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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>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<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>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=artists-making-art@nfbnet.org
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blind persons</A> </DIV>
<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>
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title=artists-making-art@nfbnet.org
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<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>
<DIV><FONT size=5></FONT> </DIV>
<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=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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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
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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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Cunningham</SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Tactile Art - a creative way to see the
world!</SPAN></EM></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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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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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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