<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>this is indeed very exciting to hear of two more artists. If either of you are in Orlando this week we have a drop in art room with lots of things to explore. I think you are here Chris, correct? Did you come in today? We are open Wednesday too from 1pm to 6pm. We have five artist exhibiting tactile artwork. Three are blind and two sighted but all touchable. </div><div><br></div><div>We are in room W202A which is in the Orange County Convention Center but easy to get to from the Rosen Center Hotel. Take the bridge from the second floor and it is the first door on the right along the main hallway after you pass the escalators on your right. Hope to see you both there and be sure to introduce yourself I would love to meet you. </div><div><br></div><div>We have home made play dough and Sensational BlackBoards, the raised line drawing boards that you can play with until your heart is content. I can show you some techniques that we have been using at the Colorado Center for the Blind. </div><div><br></div><div>All the best, </div><div><br></div><div>Ann</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: andale mono,times;">Ann Cunningham</span></div><div><span style="font-family: andale mono,times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Tactile Art - a creative way to see the world!</span></em></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: andale mono,times;">303 238 4760</span></div><div><span style="font-family: andale mono,times;"><a href="mailto:ann@acunningham.com">ann@acunningham.com</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: andale mono,times;"><a href="http://www.acunningham.com">http://www.acunningham.com</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: andale mono,times;"><a href="http://www.sensationalbooks.com">http://www.sensationalbooks.com</a> </span></div><div><br><br></div>
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Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] Chris Heckel<br>
From: "Lynda Lambert" <<a href="mailto:llambert@zoominternet.net">llambert@zoominternet.net</a>><br>
Date: Tue, July 02, 2013 12:04 pm<br>
To: "An exploration of art by and for blind persons"<br>
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<style></style> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">this is very exciting to me! I am a visual artist who lost my sight 6 years ago - and have learned how to create again by learning how to adapt to non-visual techniques and adaptive technologies. After nearly 6 years of working very hard, I have come back to "full steam ahead" with my work.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">Thank you for sharing this information.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">Lynda McKinney Lambert, Author and Fine Artist</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lyndalambert.com">http://www.lyndalambert.com</a></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com">http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com</a></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">Recent feature stories on my career: see attachment.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <blockquote style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a target="_blank" title="chris.richard.heckel@gmail.com" href="mailto:chris.richard.heckel@gmail.com">Chris Heckel</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a target="_blank" title="info@cfb.ca" href="mailto:info@cfb.ca">info@cfb.ca</a> ; <a target="_blank" title="aebteam@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:aebteam@nfbnet.org">aebteam@nfbnet.org</a> ; <a target="_blank" title="art_beyond_sight_advocacy@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:art_beyond_sight_advocacy@nfbnet.org">art_beyond_sight_advocacy@nfbnet.org</a> ; <a target="_blank" title="art_beyond_sight_educators@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:art_beyond_sight_educators@nfbnet.org">art_beyond_sight_educators@nfbnet.org</a> ; <a target="_blank" title="art_beyond_sight_learning_tools@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:art_beyond_sight_learning_tools@nfbnet.org">art_beyond_sight_learning_tools@nfbnet.org</a> ; <a target="_blank" title="art_beyond_sight_theory_and_research@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:art_beyond_sight_theory_and_research@nfbnet.org">art_beyond_sight_theory_and_research@nfbnet.org</a> ; <a target="_blank" title="artbeyondsightmuseums@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:artbeyondsightmuseums@nfbnet.org">artbeyondsightmuseums@nfbnet.org</a> ; <a target="_blank" title="artists-making-art@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:artists-making-art@nfbnet.org">artists-making-art@nfbnet.org</a> ; <a target="_blank" title="blindkid@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:blindkid@nfbnet.org">blindkid@nfbnet.org</a> ; <a target="_blank" title="nabs-l@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nabs-l@nfbnet.org">nabs-l@nfbnet.org</a> ; <a target="_blank" title="nfb-announce@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nfb-announce@nfbnet.org">nfb-announce@nfbnet.org</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 02, 2013 2:27 PM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> [Artists-making-art] Chris Heckel</div> <div><br></div> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">Hi</div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">My name is Chris Heckel. I’m a student of Dr. Paul Gabias, a leader in the National Federation of the Blind who lives in Canada, and works as a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna BC. I have taken two of his courses, the Psychology of Touch I and the Psychology of Touch II. </div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">In the Psychology of Touch II course, I Learned about the research to date on how blind and sighted people take lines and patterns of lines to represent objects, layouts of objects and events. </div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">During one class, I had the opportunity to meet Dr. John Kennedy, the pioneer in the field of haptic pictures of and for the blind. My respect for Dr. Kennedy and Dr. Gabias, among other things, led me to pursue this line of investigation. I am fascinated by the similarities and possible differences with respect to how blind and sighted people deal with representational systems for depicting objects, scenes and events. I’m interested in drawings, because that’s what I’ve studied so far.</div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">Dr. Gabias and I will be meeting with Dr. Al Maneki and his team at E.A.S.Y. LLC. <span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px">They have the beginnings of an entire line of products that allow for the creation, editing, digital transmission and reproduction of raised line drawings. In a draft article that Dr. Maneki has sent to Dr. Gabias, entitled:</span></div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 26px">The Dawn of the Age of Tactile Fluency:</span></b></div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 26px">Let the Revolution Begin!</span></b></div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px">Dr. Maneki wrote: “Up to now, parents of every blind child have inevitably run up against this vexing problem: “My blind child will be taking Geometry next year. Now, what do we do with all of those drawings?””</span></div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px">Indeed, what do we do with “all of those drawings”? And further, what meanings can lines and patterns of lines take on, in “all of those drawings”?</span></div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px">That’s the question that I would like to explore in my studies with Dr. Gabias</span></div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px">So, Dr. Gabias suggested that I become familiar with the National Federation of the Blind, its people, its philosophy of blindness and its structure. That’s what I’m coming to the convention to do. I anticipate that this convention will only be my first, in a long line of future conventions.</span></div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px">I’m writing this article, simply to introduce myself to you, and to ask for your help.</span></div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px">Because my explorations are very preliminary, I’m wanting to have conversations with people about all kinds of things, but particularly depiction. In the course of our conversations, I hope to be able to show you a few drawings and ask you for your impressions about them.</span></div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px">I wanted you to know a little something about me, before the convention, should I get the opportunity to meet you. Please look me up if you are interested in meeting me. I’m staying at the Rosen Centre Hotel. I’ll be arriving on the 30<sup style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px">th</sup> of June, at around 10 PM. You just have to look me up, by asking to be connected to my room by the hotel switch board.</span></div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px">I’m looking forward to meeting you all,</span></div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px">Best Regards</span></div> <div class="" style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.35em; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px">Chris Heckel</span></div></div> <div> </div><hr> <div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Artists-making-art mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Artists-making-art@nfbnet.org">Artists-making-art@nfbnet.org</a><br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/artists-making-art_nfbnet.org">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/artists-making-art_nfbnet.org</a><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Artists-making-art:<br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/artists-making-art_nfbnet.org/llambert%40zoominternet.net">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/artists-making-art_nfbnet.org/llambert%40zoominternet.net</a></blockquote> <hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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