<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>There is so much to learn isn't there? I trust Lynda isn't against touch art, she just isn't focused on it.</div><div>Lynda is creating conceptual art and I am creating tactile art and Pete Brown is creating multi-sensory art. </div><div><br></div><div>Wikipedia's definition of Conceptual Art is:</div><div><br></div><div style=""><b style="">Conceptual art</b>, sometimes simply called Conceptualism, is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art" title="Art" style="">art</a> in which the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept" title="Concept" style="">concept</a>(s) or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea" title="Idea" style="">idea</a>(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics" title="Aesthetics" style="">aesthetic</a> and material concerns. Many works of conceptual art, sometimes called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_art" title="Installation art" style="">installations</a>, may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art#cite_note-1" style="">[1]</a></sup> This method was fundamental to American artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_LeWitt" title="Sol LeWitt" style="">Sol LeWitt</a>'s definition of Conceptual art, one of the first to appear in print:</div><blockquote class="toccolours" style=""><div style="">In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art#cite_note-2" style="">[2]</a></sup></div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">I am a big fan of Conceptual Art and I can hardly wait to see what Lynda is up to. My art being tactile is all about the mind / hand connection. I love seeing what kind of acrobatics I can get them to do. It is endlessly fascinating to me to make amusement parks for my hands and to see how my mind reacts. </div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">We should get Pete Brown in on this discussion because he is very focused on multi-sensory art, perhaps the most intentionally inclusive of all. Maybe yes, maybe no. I would love to hear what he has to say about it.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">I would also like to suggest Busser Howell, he is the author of 20/20 Blindsight and his input would be really interesting to have too. He has very strong opinions and they are not at all mine. If you haven't read his book you might pick it up. He is a blind painter and he interviews about 20 or so blind artists and asks specific questions about how they conceive of art. It is a book unlike any other and it has given me lots to think about<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">.</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Patty, I think you are genius, maybe we can put together an art fair at NFB in Baltimore and all decorate the barricades! I would love nothing better!</span></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Back to work - thanks to you all this conversation is very fun. Ann</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""> </div></blockquote><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: "Patricia C. Estes" <<a href="mailto:pece03@gmail.com">pece03@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Wed, January 22, 2014 3:16 pm<br>
To: "An exploration of art by and for blind persons"<br>
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<div><font size="4" face="Georgia">AnnaAnna,</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">I told you that I am learning as fast as I can. </font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">Let me share with you Lesson Number One:</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">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 size="4" face="Georgia"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">Lesson Number Two:</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">It is called "Conceptual Art"...I think I've got that right. </font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">Words mean things and this word "conceptual" is so freeing to me, and inclusive, too!</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">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 size="4" face="Georgia">Ahhh! "Art without Borders"!</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">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 size="4" face="Georgia"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">Have a good evening-</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">Patty Estes</font></div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; 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-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <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 style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 8px; FONT-FAMILY: verdana; COLOR: black; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id="replyBlockquote" 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 size="4" face="Arial">Good Afternoon, Patty,</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial">Lynda</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; 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 size="4" face="Georgia">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 size="4" face="Georgia"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">I don't mean to gush, Linda, but oh well!</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">Thank you and I am sharing this information from you with Amber Mooney from the Iris Network.</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">Patty Estes</font></div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; 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 size="4" face="Arial">Enclosed: 3 essays to accompany 3 of my art works - </font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"><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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">I had to laugh at the tactile art description you gave here. I understand!!! </font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial">Lynda McKinney Lambert</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.lyndalambert.com" target="_blank">http://www.lyndalambert.com</a></font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; 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 size="4" face="Georgia">Hi Linda,</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">Patty Estes in Maine here.</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">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 size="4" face="Georgia">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 size="4" face="Georgia"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">This is so wonderful-thank you for opening doors for the rest of us!</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Georgia">Patty Estes</font></div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; 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 size="4" face="Arial">Hi Ann,</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">For the March show, I will be showing pottery and mixed-media fibers (bead working). AS for how many pieces:</font></div> <div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; font-size:12pt;" class="MsoNormal" 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 style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; font-size:12pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial">Fibers_ Talisman: 8<o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; font-size:12pt;" class="MsoNormal" 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 style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; font-size:12pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial">Pottery_ For flat display: <o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; font-size:12pt;" class="MsoNormal" 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 style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; font-size:12pt;" class="MsoNormal" 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 style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; font-size:12pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial">Installation Group: 1<o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; font-size:12pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial">Bowls: 10</font></span></div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; font-size:12pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial"></font></span> </div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; font-size:12pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Arial">Lynda</font></span></div></div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; 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-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <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 style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 8px; FONT-FAMILY: verdana; COLOR: black; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id="replyBlockquote" 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 size="4" face="Arial">Hello friends!</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">Click here to read the article:</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"><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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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 size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">This is your PERSONAL invitation from ME!!! </font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">Thanks a million for your long-time support of my art career.</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">With best regards,</font></div> <div><font size="4" face="Arial">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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