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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>I found this is my DRAFTS folder so I think I did
not send it out. If I did, sorry for the duplication. If not, then I am glad I
just found it today. Lynda</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=llambert@zoominternet.net href="mailto:llambert@zoominternet.net">Lynda
Lambert</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <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><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 10, 2014 9:17 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Artists-making-art] Highlights for Art
lovers</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>Good morning to my fellow arts lovers, special
friends and NFB family: it's nearly Spring and that must
mean our Pennsylvania winter might be about to leave for a few months of warm
weather. We are all looking forward to that by now. I have a few things I want
to share with the folks on this group today. We all need a boost of
encouragement some times, and that is my inspiration for this note today. For
us, as artists with sight loss, it is not an easy path to make our work and get
it "out there" to the public audience. It takes a ton of work from the time we
begin to think of having an art show, till the time we are standing in the
gallery and smiling and greeting the visitors. For artists with
significant sight losses, it is so much more of an effort and careful planning
and getting everything we need in place for it all to happen. It is my
firm belief that we all need each other; we need to promote each other every
chance we get. I had some opportunities recently and want to share them
with you today.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#ff0000
size=5><STRONG> First, my article on the art work of
Tammy Ruggles</STRONG></FONT>, a sight impaired artist in Kentucky. *Click on
the attached article to read it. The article was published in Arts Across
kentucky Magazine - just released last week. I am attaching a copy of the
article so you can view Tammy's beautiful and powerful paintings and learn more
about her work through this article I wrote about it. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT face=Arial> <A
href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Arts-Across-Kentucky-Magazine/165127260238287">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Arts-Across-Kentucky-Magazine/165127260238287</A></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT face=Arial>Tammy launched the new BlogTalk station,
"The Promo Show." I was one of her first guests and it was so much
fun to speak with her about making art as an artist who has lost sight. I am
scheduled to do another Blog Talk Radio show with my friend, Alvaro Alvarito of
Bogota' Columbia in the next week, too. Alvaro is the host of the "Low Vision
Bureau" show on BlogTalk Radio. He has asked me to speak about one of the most
important pieces of equipment that enabled me to return to doing academic
lectures, public speaking, and a myriad of other functions that are essential to
my life. The electronic device is the Milestone, a very small digital
device that holds hundreds of "files" in electronic "folders." We will
also discuss other technologies that make life so good for blind people
these days. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#ff0000
size=5><STRONG> Second, the exhibition: Vision and
Revision, Two Artists with Limited Sight, not Limited Vision ...opened Friday
evening, March 7th at Merrick Art Gallery in New Brighton,
PA.</STRONG></FONT> Many of my enthusiastic art supporters and
patrons attended the opening night. We gave short
presentations on pieces in the show. The most important aspect of my
talk focused on the stories about other artists who are making
dynamic work despite their sight impairment. I shared the insights of Karen
Bailey of Muncie, Indiana who makes the most powerful images of birds and other
animals out of clay that I have ever seen. I recently purchased one of
her pieces and when it arrived we were thrilled with it. There is a "livingness"
to her birds that show an understanding of the life force of the bird, and the
interior structure that forms the outward appearance of them. Karen
has no sight and uses a guide dog to get around by herself in the city, and gets
to her pottery studio where she creates her stunning work. I am looking forward
to several more commissioned works from Karen - they are ordered! You can see a
YouTube video of Karen working, just Google her name - Karen Bailey,
Blind Sculptor, and you'll find interviews and videos. This should take you
there:</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20131216/LIFESTYLE/312160003/Blind-sculptor-s-hands-serve-eyes?nclick_check=1">http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20131216/LIFESTYLE/312160003/Blind-sculptor-s-hands-serve-eyes?nclick_check=1</A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT face=Arial> In my talk, I spoke of
Jeannie Nylander of Lacrosse, Wisconsin, who is currently creating
sculptures of musical instruments out of clay. She is deeply
involved in the art scene in her city. She has no eyes because they were removed
a few years ago. Yet, she continues to follow her vision in creating meaningful
art that is respected and honored by her peers in the art world. The stories of
such artists reflect the character of the women who have continued to live a
victorious life after sight loss. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG><FONT color=#008000 size=5> You
can have a look at the photos from this exhibition by visiting me on Face Book,
Search for: Lynda McKinney Lambert - or - River Road Studio on FaceBook. I
have attached three photos of works in the show, too. Be sure to "like" my
River Road Studio page, and sign up to be a member of my page and get updates as
I post new information on art.</FONT></STRONG></FONT> <STRONG><FONT
color=#008000 size=5>I am not sure if this will take you there, but if not, you
can Google me, too.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008000 size=5><A
href="http://www.facebook.com/lyndamckinneylambert">http://www.facebook.com/lyndamckinneylambert</A></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=4><FONT color=#ff0000
size=5><STRONG> Third, I was a presenter at Slippery
Rock University of PA last week. I did two presentations for the President's
Conference on Disabilities and Inclusion.</STRONG></FONT> </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=4> I shared information on
the technologies that I use, and spread awareness of the myths of blindness that
are challenges. </FONT><FONT size=4>All of this has happened in just the
last six days, and you can imagine there are other exciting and challenging
writing and art projects on the horizon that I am currently working
on. I am taking a little "break" for a couple of weeks, and then I will be
back in the studio creating works for my forthcoming solo exhibitions in the
next couple of years. Stay tuned for information on those later
on!</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=4></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=4> If you want to catch a
view of the Vision and Revision exhibition, it will be on display until April 3
at the Merrick Art Gallery, New Brighton, PA. The opening on Friday night
was a tremendous success, filled with excited and positive people, and sales of
my work were beyond any expectations I could have had. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=4> Thank you for your support
of my work - it is created in an atmosphere of peace and joy, and it is my
privilege to share it as I do through exhibitions. I am very pleased to visit
the exhibition with you or your GROUP, just let me know when you would like a
personal walk through (or Talk Through) the show and I will do my
best to help you out. I am already scheduled to present a
unique class in the gallery for Geneva College humanities students - and can do
the same for you!!!! I will speak to them about the historical and
philosophical bases of my art. It's a course that I developed and taught, and I
am glad it is still offered 6 years after my retirement. This brings my teaching
to full circle, that a course I developed is now coming to visit me in the
gallery and learn more about art history and humanities through my own work in
the field. What a good life I have had and still enjoy - I am ever grateful.
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<DIV>I guess my most important message is this: Artists who have disabilities
must be held to the same standards of excellence as any other person in our
field. Our art should reflect excellence, solid crafsmanship, and inspired
philisophical thought. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=4>Thank you! Lynda</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4></FONT> </DIV></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">http://www.lyndalambert.com</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>"Human beings are creatures who conceal an interior
of uncharted chaos which lies beneath the surface reality"James Baldwin, The
Creative Life (1962)</FONT></DIV>
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