<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>I think it would be amazing to co-teach a class. Last summer I taught with a blind artist, who is primarily a clay sculptor. She taught a watercolor class to all sighted folks and I taught a tactile finger painting class to sighted people with eyes - somewhat shut. The finger paints were homemade and textured with cornmeal and flour and a few other ingredients. I would have to look at my notes.</div><div><br></div><div>I have done the Braille / Print labels in two ways that I like. One is I print the labels in about a 24 point font since that is about how much room the Braille is going to take anyway. Then I emboss the Braille on the clear sticky back plastic that they sell at NFB Independence Market. </div><div><br></div><div>Then I need to decide if it is going to be OK to put the Braille over the print text or if they need to be separate. The reason you might want them separate is that the Braille does deform the text a bit. </div><div><br></div><div>I like putting all the text for the show in a print / Braille book so that people can carry it with them or I put it on labels that hang on ribbons. I use a 3 or 4 ply mat board with a hole in the corner and tie one end of the ribbon to the back left hand side of the picture hanger for wall mounted pieces or hanging down the front of the sculpture stand. Having the Braille and print on a ribbon makes it easy for someone to position the label so that it is easiest for them to read. Reading Braille on a wall is not very easy. If someone is VI but reads print it helps if they can hold it so that the light is best for them too. </div><div><br></div><div>If you do the clear plastic I had to do two things to get it through our embosser. First I had to tape it to the tractor feed paper and secondly I had to send it through twice but it looked great then and it still looks just as good and this is ten years later! </div><div><br></div><div>As far as navigating an exhibit goes I just haven't really seen any problems. One show that is held every year out here has a visual arts element and a tactile exhibit as well. It was never a problem when the two parts of the show were installed on opposite sides of the room. The only year they had a problem was when they decided to integrate the two and so it was pretty much impossible not to end up touching the visual works if you were viewing the exhibit tactually because by the time you figured out which piece was visual it was only after we had had our hands all over it. So I wouldn't recommend that!</div><div><br></div><div>Ann</div><div><br></div><div> </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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From: "Lynda Lambert" <<a href="mailto:llambert@zoominternet.net">llambert@zoominternet.net</a>><br>
Date: Wed, January 22, 2014 7:18 pm<br>
To: "An exploration of art by and for blind persons"<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="4">Ann,</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">I think that what you do in Denver is so rich and important. I have been to the museum there as well as to the history museum. Very nice places.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"> I had never thought of it before, but I was talking with some other artists last week and the idea came up and it seems so exciting to me. And, another thought is team teaching by both a sighted and a blind teacher - I think that would be very exciting and that some stunning things could come from it. But, I am just speaking as an artist here, and I am learning every day, too. I do think it is fantastic when blind and sighted artists mingle together and share ideas about art and education. WE all benefit from such discussions.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">OH, I have no problem with calling anything "tactile art." My pottery is certainly tactile art, too. It is made by touch, and it is made to be experienced by touch. The fiber arts I do are very fragile so I don't refer to them as tactile art, but they would be very interesting to experiece via touch. I like to write my descriptions for my art in the form of short essays, memoirs, and poetry so that the imagination can expand even further, along with the experience of the object itself that we touch. </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial"><font size="4">One other thing we blind artists were discussing is that </font></font></div> <div><font face="Arial"><font size="4"> we believe everything in a museum should be available for us to touch to "see" it. One of the other panel members told us about several examples of blind people who were able to determine new things about some classical sculptures that had been overlooked for many years by sighted curators of the objects. It's because we see differently via our touch.</font></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">Well, it is very exciting to be learning new things and I am sure doing that myself. Right now, I have to figure out how to make the labels for my upcoming show in March. I want them to be text as well as Braille - does anyone here have any experience with doing this, and if so, I am in need of advice on how best to do it. This is a new experience for me. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">I was also wondering how some of you have experienced art shows - I mean the physical space of the galleries? As I plan my own shows in the future, I want to think more about the physical space and how I might make it blind friendly. How is it being done in other places around the country? </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">Lynda</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="pece03@gmail.com" href="mailto:pece03@gmail.com">Patricia C. Estes</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a target="_blank" 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>Cc:</b> <a target="_blank" title="AMooney@theiris.org" href="mailto:AMooney@theiris.org">Amber Mooney</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 22, 2014 5:16 PM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!</div> <div><br></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">AnnaAnna,</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">I told you that I am learning as fast as I can. </font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">Let me share with you Lesson Number One:</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">You can't say "tactile art" in front of Linda...she does not want to exclude the sighted, or even imply it. Isn't this genius?</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">Lesson Number Two:</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">It is called "Conceptual Art"...I think I've got that right. </font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">Words mean things and this word "conceptual" is so freeing to me, and inclusive, too!</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">It is exciting and I have no idea how many are receiving our e-mails...this list serve may think this Mainiac is just that! But I feel this will spread, precisely because of no boundaries.</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">Ahhh! "Art without Borders"!</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">Here's to the Tipping Point forshared experience in art and the message of Dr. Jernigan (in my little opinion...hey! "on the barricades"...what if we decorate it???)</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">Have a good evening-</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">Patty Estes</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="Ann@acunningham.com" href="mailto:Ann@acunningham.com">Ann@acunningham.com</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a target="_blank" 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> Wednesday, January 22, 2014 4:22 PM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!</div> <div><br></div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> <div>Hi Lynda, I have been reading yours and Patty's exchange and am very excited to hear what you guys are cooking up. I would love to be included if I could in the next program and the discussion with the organizers. I teach art at the Colorado Center for the Blind. I am a tactile artist who is sighted. I would love to take workshops from artists who are blind. That is a great idea. </div> <div> I am on my way out to purchase materials for our next exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. We have a new Access Coordinator who is wonderful and we are now making tactile as well as other accessible elements for all the shows. We have been working together on this program since the early 2000s but it seems like now it is really ready to take off. It helps a great deal that the Denver Art Museum has placed enough value on the role of the Access Coordinator to make it a full time job and not an additional part to someone's job.</div> <div> All the best wishes for your upcoming show. </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 target="_blank" href="mailto:ann@acunningham.com">ann@acunningham.com</a></span></div> <div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: andale mono,times"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.acunningham.com">http://www.acunningham.com</a></span></div> <div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: andale mono,times"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.sensationalbooks.com">http://www.sensationalbooks.co</a></span></div> <div><br><br></div> <blockquote id="replyBlockquote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 8px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: verdana" webmail="1"> <div id="wmQuoteWrapper">-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!<br>From: "Lynda Lambert" <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:llambert@zoominternet.net">llambert@zoominternet.net</a>><br>Date: Wed, January 22, 2014 1:56 pm<br>To: "An exploration of art by and for blind persons"<br><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:artists-making-art@nfbnet.org">artists-making-art@nfbnet.org</a>><br><br> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">Good Afternoon, Patty,</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">So very nice to get your comments - and the humor you have here made me smile and sit back and reflect awhile as i listened to the note.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">I just send off the publicity blurbs for our March show, and sent off the labeling to the Blind Association here in my county - they will be doing the labeling for us. I am so excited to do this! </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">OH, I forgot to mention that the Touch Art program is NOW beginning to think about and brainsorm the next round of workshops. AND, we have the notion that the next time we can be doing BLIND artists TEACHING blind folded sited persons how to make art the way WE DO IT. HOW does that sound? I think it is very exciting - WE are the TEACHERS, they are the LEARNERS perhaps. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">If you want to contact the program directors who put that all together I will give you their email addresses by sending an introductory note to them so you THREE can have communications. OK? They can answer any questions you have since they are the founders and owners of the Touch Art Program in Pittsburgh, PA. Perhaps something could be done to connect what they do with NFB artists in the future in some way. Just thinking out loud. lol</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">Lynda</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font><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 title="pece03@gmail.com" href="mailto:pece03@gmail.com" target="_blank">Patricia C. Estes</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="artists-making-art@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:artists-making-art@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">An exploration of art by and for blind persons</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="AMooney@theiris.org" href="mailto:AMooney@theiris.org" target="_blank">Amber Mooney</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 22, 2014 10:18 AM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!</div> <div><br></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">Oh, Linda! Thank you for your time and teaching! You are exactly right and Dr. Jernigan would be pleased. He'd be winking at me,"Ahhh, Patty! You are not thinking this through!" I love learning and to combine it with philosophy and art...just wonderful.</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">I don't mean to gush, Linda, but oh well!</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">Thank you and I am sharing this information from you with Amber Mooney from the Iris Network.</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">Patty Estes</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 title="llambert@zoominternet.net" href="mailto:llambert@zoominternet.net" target="_blank">Lynda Lambert</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="artists-making-art@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:artists-making-art@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">An exploration of art by and for blind persons</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 22, 2014 6:53 AM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!</div> <div><br></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">Enclosed: 3 essays to accompany 3 of my art works - </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"><a href="http://triblive.com/aande/moreaande/5340854-74/art-arts-vision#axzz2qftU80BU" target="_blank">http://triblive.com/aande/moreaande/5340854-74/art-arts-vision#axzz2qftU80BU</a></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">I had to laugh at the tactile art description you gave here. I understand!!! </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">My own art is made exactly as I made my art for the past 30 plus years - I do not think "tactile" at all, but I think "conceptual art." Since I lost my sight 7 years ago, this is something I have encountered, that a blind artist would not be held to the same standards as a sighted artist. That would put me in a very tenuous position, as an artist. When I enter my work in exhibitions it is almost never known by the juror that I have sight loss. It is only after the work is on exhibition that anyone comes to know that about the artist who made it. Blind artists must be held to the same standards as any other artist who expects to be included in high quality exhibitions, I believe.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">The event that occurred last week was a culmination of a series of workshops taught by professional artists who worked with blind people - the artist had to learn HOW blind people learn things and how they envision concepts, and how to place or use the tools and materials so that they are usable to the blind person. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">All of the people who took these workshops were blind - and some of them were artists in other mediums than what they did at the workshops, but most had no art background. They had the desire to learn and as with all people, no sight is ever necessary to use the imagination and intuition - which all artists must have to produce their work.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">I have no experience in putting together a show that is blind accessable - I will be doing it in March for the first time, at the Merrick Art Gallery, New Brighton, PA. It is a two-person exhibition with my pottery and mixed media fiber works, and a painter who is legally blind. We both use the Acrobat CCTV to produce our work. I use it for doing my mixed media pieces, but I use only touch for my pottery <a target="_blank" href="http://work.My">work.My</a> vision is very low, considered to be "profound sight loss." The painter I am doing the show will is at the opposite end of the spectrum, and is "legally blind." </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">One problem for many people with a small amount of vision is the colors of the gallery and the pedestals - white and white. It is blinding to most people with sight loss. They need strong contrast to "see" the space - and to walk in the space. Since most shows have white pedestals, white walks, and wooden floors - it is a nightmare to navigate for a blind person. I can only see strong contrasts, and in such a light space, I have to have on special glasses because that much light would give me severe headaches, and make me unable to see anything at all. With contrasts, I do not even need to use my white cane as I can navagate the space very well.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">The show we are doing in March will have braille labels along with text labels for the works. My pottery would be considered tactile and could be seen by touch - my mixed media works could not be touched at all - so they would hav to have a description. We will have a short video that will run on a loop - it will show the progression of some of the works from beginning to end - and it will have voices behind the photos of the works that will be describing the work and the process. But, it will not be an instructional kind of description - it will be carefully written essays or poems, that will be read. The essay will focus on the CONCEPT, with mention of process in it. I will enclose one of my essays that will accompany one of the pieces so you can get the idea I am working with.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">If I can be of any further help, please just ask me. This is a very exciting thing, TOUCH ART, isn't it! </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">Lynda McKinney Lambert</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"><a href="http://www.lyndalambert.com" target="_blank">http://www.lyndalambert.com</a></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 title="pece03@gmail.com" href="mailto:pece03@gmail.com" target="_blank">Patricia C. Estes</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="artists-making-art@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:artists-making-art@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">An exploration of art by and for blind persons</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 21, 2014 7:28 PM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!</div> <div><br></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">Hi Linda,</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">Patty Estes in Maine here.</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">I am working with a woman from the Iris Center for the Blind to help to make our state museum and a couple of our more famous art museums (Portland Art Museum and the Farnsworth Museum with the Wyeth Center) accessible to the blind through audio description. We are just starting and I am wondering if you could point me to a process or standard that is used successfully.</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">Also, we have had an art exhibit by disabled people, but I am wondering if an art exhibit by blind artists needs/should/would be expected to be all tactile entries? Were there any visual pieces with description at the event you just participated in?</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">This is so wonderful-thank you for opening doors for the rest of us!</font></div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Georgia" size="4">Patty Estes</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 title="llambert@zoominternet.net" href="mailto:llambert@zoominternet.net" target="_blank">Lynda Lambert</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="artists-making-art@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:artists-making-art@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">An exploration of art by and for blind persons</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 21, 2014 5:47 PM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!</div> <div><br></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">Hi Ann,</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">A film was made during the course of these workshops and it was launched at the seminar last Thursday afternoon. It was a two hour program, with an enormous attendance of blind and sighted people. There were many conversations happening between the two groups and lots of mingling and mixing - not a situation where blind people are here, and sighted people are there, and the two never really mix which is often the case. It was a most wonderful day, celebrating an entire series of interactive workshops since last summer. Discussions are now going on for developing the next round of programming and grant funding. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">For the March show, I will be showing pottery and mixed-media fibers (bead working). AS for how many pieces:</font></div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial">Fibers_ for Walls:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>14<o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial">Fibers_ Talisman: 8<o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial">Pottery for Walls:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>10<o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial">Pottery_ For flat display: <o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial">Boxes:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>16<o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial">Platters:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>3<o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial">Installation Group: 1<o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial">Bowls: 10</font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial"></font></span> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial">Lynda</font></span></div></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 title="Ann@acunningham.com" href="mailto:Ann@acunningham.com" target="_blank">Ann@acunningham.com</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="artists-making-art@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:artists-making-art@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">An exploration of art by and for blind persons</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 21, 2014 1:04 PM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!</div> <div><br></div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> <div>This is really fantastic, both the article and your art! Beautiful. I wish Be nice to get in touch with that piece. Do you think the other artists might want to join us on this listserv? It would be nice to get more threads going. Congratulations. </div> <div>Is there any chance I could listen to a recording of the panel discussion? </div> <div>How many pieces do you anticipate having ready for your March exhibit?</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" target="_blank">ann@acunningham.com</a></span></div> <div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: andale mono,times"><a href="http://www.acunningham.com" target="_blank">http://www.acunningham.com</a></span></div> <div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: andale mono,times"><a href="http://www.sensationalbooks.com" target="_blank">http://www.sensationalbooks.com</a> </span></div> <div><br><br></div> <blockquote id="replyBlockquote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 8px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: verdana" webmail="1"> <div id="wmQuoteWrapper">-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Re: [Artists-making-art] In the NEWS today!<br>From: "Lynda Lambert" <<a href="mailto:llambert@zoominternet.net" target="_blank">llambert@zoominternet.net</a>><br>Date: Sat, January 18, 2014 8:08 am<br>To: <<a href="mailto:riverwoman@gmail.com" target="_blank">riverwoman@gmail.com</a>><br><br> <style></style> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">Hello friends!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">I am so excited to be able to share this beautiful story with you today. It is in the today's issue of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review - you can read the story, and click on the photos. You'll find ME there, with my art work. The photo was taken after the Touch Art Seminar on Thursday, at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. I was one of the four panelists at the seminar - and there was a large audience in attendance. It was such a fulfilling and educational day for all of us!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">My piece I am with in the photo in today's Tribune Review is: <font color="#800000"><strong><em> The Dragon's Healing Breastplate. <font color="#000000">It's</font> </em></strong></font> on display at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, just two more days, as part of The New Collective exhibition. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">Click here to read the article:</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"><a href="http://triblive.com/aande/moreaande/5340854-74/art-arts-vision#axzz2qftU80BU" target="_blank">http://triblive.com/aande/moreaande/5340854-74/art-arts-vision#axzz2qftU80BU</a></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">This particular art work is so special to me because it's creation became my pathway to the healing of my personal and professional life after I suffered profound sight loss in 2007. I had started work on this piece just prior to my sight loss. The piece became the driving force that propelled me to wholeness. I was determined to be the ARTIST I had been my entire life, and I struggled through the creation of this work for nearly 6 (SIX) years before I was able to complete it. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">You will be able to see this work, and many other of my newest pieces in an upcoming exhibition at the Merrick Art Gallery, New Brighton, PA. I'll be doing a 2 person show with Suzanne Gibson. The opening will be <strong><u><font color="#008000">Friday night, March 7th - from 6 - 9 pm.</font></u></strong> It will be a Wine and Cheese reception and I would be so pleased if you would mark your calendar and come see the new works in pottery and mixed-media bead working I have done especially for this exhibition. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">This is your PERSONAL invitation from ME!!! </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">Thanks a million for your long-time support of my art career.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">With best regards,</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="4">Lynda McKinney Lambert, MFA<br>Artist, Educator, Author<br>104 River Road, Ellwood City, PA 16117<br><a href="http://www.lyndalambert.com" 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