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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Georgia>Linda,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Georgia>wonderful new venues (hospital/therapy settings)
to appreciate art and artists and the Inner Artist in each person.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Georgia></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Georgia>Does your partner in these two exhibits,
Suzanne, have a web site? I am curious how she uses paint in a tactile way.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Georgia></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Georgia>Your "story" is inspiring. My dream was to go to
art school, but growing up blind in Maine, I was told that "blind people can't
do art"...even though I was drawing with different leads, charcoal, etc for
hours daily. And now, as I come back to my art (which had gone the oil on canvas
route and now I "stick stuff to stuff", as you know), I have been diagnosed with
MS.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Georgia>I take courage in your energy and persistence and
imagination and that you see clearly the spaces in daily life for beauty and
creativity.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Georgia></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Georgia>Patty Estes</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=llambert@zoominternet.net
href="mailto:llambert@zoominternet.net">Lynda Lambert</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=hkdawn@yahoo.com
href="mailto:hkdawn@yahoo.com">Heather Kirkwood</A> ; <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> Saturday, January 25, 2014 9:10
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Hi Heather,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Wish you were near here, too! </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Suzanne Gibson and I are working on two
exhibitions for this year - they are scheduled to be in western
Pennsylvania.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Exhibition Title: Vision and Revision: Two
artists with limited sight, not limited vision.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Suzanne Gibson: Paintings on canvas
(tactile)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Lynda Lambert: Pottery (Tactile) and Mixed
Media Fibers/Bead Working (Visual)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Show one: Merrick Art Gallery, New
Brighton, PA</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial> March
7 - April 3</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial> On March
22, we will be in the gallery making art and will have a "meet the artist and
demo"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial> At the
opening reception, we will do a short "Artists Walk Through" of the show for
people - each of us will talk about 2 of
the works we have created for the show.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial> On another afternoon, I will
meet with students in the "Women in the Arts" course, at Geneva
College.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial> I was the professor who
created this course and taught it before my retirement six years
ago.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial> I will meet the class in the
gallery. My discussion will focus on three aspects:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial> historical context of
the work in the show;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial> blindness issues and art
making;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial> philisophical influences,
personal world view, and concepts that shape my work. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>The Second Show will be in a very different kind
of space. It will be in Jameson hospital, New Castle, PA in a brand new
wing that has been created for urgent care. When the rchitects designed
this place, they planned for an exhibition space for artists that would bring
in healing art. The shows change every three months. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>The show will be on display from April 14 - July
5th.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>The format will be the same for the opening
reception, and the artist's demo mid-way into the show's run.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>For both of these shows we will have Braille
labeling along with the regular wall text (thanks to the great advice I just
got from Ann! </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial> We will have a video of the
two artists - with their work in progress and showing time lapse of the work
being created to the finished product. For the video we have written
some very short essays and poems about art, sight loss, and doing the
work. In the background of the video, you can hear the stories of the
artists and the works. This way a blind person can get insight into the work
even when they cannot see the work visually. They can not only
experience the making of the work, the finished pieces, but the thought
process of the artist during creation of the work.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>The video will run on a loop in the gallery, and
will also be playing on small screens in other places for visitors to stop and
have a look and listen to the art/artists.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>One of the venues I am brainstorming with
plans to have my ehxibition available to all patients in the hospital (that is
not yet built) via their TV screen. So even if they are bed fast and cannot
come into the gallery space, they can still visit the show through
technology. That is in the planning stages but not for a year or two
following completion of the building. You know, 50 percent of all new
construction of Hospitals is including art galleries - this is a new way of
thinking about art, isn't it. People are recognizing that art has
healing powers, and that people who are sick and those who are discouraged can
be uplifted and even helped in the healing process through experiencing art.
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Lynda</FONT></DIV>
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Kirkwood</A> </DIV>
<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> Wednesday, January 22, 2014 4:49
PM</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>This work is so exciting. As you all get these shows organized,
please let us know! I'd love to advertise them to my membership if they are
open to the public. Wish I was in the areas myself so I could go -
grin! </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Heather Kirkwood</FONT></DIV>
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Officer</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=5><B>HPS New York Conference - March 7 - 9,
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial>On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:06 PM,
Lynda Lambert <llambert@zoominternet.net> wrote:<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>I am connecting you three to each other via
this email as I think there is mutual interest and information you may each
have for sharing with each other. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Kirsten and Tirzah are the founders, owners,
and coordinators of the Creative Citizens Studio in Pittsburgh, PA.
they coordinated the Touch Art Seminar, a series of workshops that brought
blind and sighted people together last fall, to make art, at one of
Pittsburgh most notable art institutions. It is a very successful
endeavor.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Patricia Estes is working on creating
blind friendly exhibitions at a couple of galleries/museums in Maine, and
she is connected with the National Federation of the Blind, Baltimore,
MD. She recently contacted me with questions about the Touch Art
Seminar after seeing the Tribune Review article - so I think she would love
to have more conversations with you both since you have the answers!
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>This is so exciting on so many levels!
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></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> </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/wordpress" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://www.lyndalambert.com/wordpress</A></FONT></DIV>
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