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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Adrienne Fernandez [mailto:Adrienne.Fernandez@wssb.wa.gov] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 06, 2014 1:03 PM<br><b>To:</b> Outreach<br><b>Cc:</b> shlurie@spiritone.com; HEIDI BATCHELOR (batchelor6@msn.com); jeffandrachellawson@comcast.net; 'Renee CORSO'; nadyavb@yahoo.com; Lisa Fagg (tropicalsafari@gmail.com); luminouslyliving@yahoo.com; robertsellers500@comcast.net; tkmcrobert@aol.com; Bruce Elgort (bruce.elgort@gmail.com); C E A E WILLIAMS (wcejr1001@msn.com); cindy.vw@gmail.com; darznapa@yahoo.com; David Hammond - Volunteer (davidw.hammond23@gmail.com); dawn@keystoadvancement.com; Board - Denise Vestman; dewaldpianotuner@gmail.com; donmi@pianotuningschool.org; dlmcnew@wwestsky.net; Doug Trimble; rushmillerfoundation@hotmail.com; gdonaghey@msn.com; heathersimmons1996@gmail.com; helens@wa-net.com; blindguy64@gmail.com; Jacquelyn Patching (jpatching1993@gmail.com); JaReda Webb; Coni Barnes (conibarnes@comcast.net); jessimp@comcast.net; jessica.cummings@email.wsu.edu; Jillian Quigley (jillian.raeq@gmail.com); goddardmail@comcast.net; Jim Selby (selbyjb@comcast.net); jodyrunt@gmail.com; jogsix@q.com; Joanne Gibbons (cgibbo@comcast.net); Joe Pyles (joepyles@gmail.com); John Donnelly (donnellyj@comcast.net); KaDo Gorman - VP Foundation (vpfoundation@portlanddg.org); lowsky@q.com; kkipp123@gmail.com; Kimloan Le (kimloan36054@yahoo.com); Lief Lackey (hilief@hotmail.com); Lilly L. (awaterlilly@comcast.net); Lisa Fagg (tropicalsafari@gmail.com); Maurice Mines - General Volunteer (kd0iko@icloud.com); Melanie Lindquist (heres-mel@hotmail.com); michbin@comcast.net; ADELE OLSON (aolson@wildblue.net); Paul Van Dyck (publicradio113@gmail.com); Richard and Jackie Baker (tsadick@yahoo.com); Ron Plath (rplath@easystreet.net); Shaleena Miller (shaleenamiller@yahoo.com); Sunny Apareci (sunnyapareci@gmail.com); jsrihahn@gmail.com; Tristen (tristenbreitenfeldt@gmail.com)<br><b>Subject:</b> Visual Impaired Tours at Portland Art Musem<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Sylvia Lurie organizes Portland Art Museum Tours for Visually Impaired (See email below). Please contact Sylvia at <a href="mailto:shlurie@spiritone.com">shlurie@spiritone.com</a> if you are interested in below tours and would like to be on her mailing list for future tours. Also, please share email with anyone you who might be interested in visually impaired tours at Portland Art Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Thanks so much,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>A<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Sylvia Lurie [<a href="mailto:shlurie@spiritone.com">mailto:shlurie@spiritone.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 31, 2014 2:04 PM<br><b>To:</b> S. McCallum; I. M. McConachy; Adrienne Fernandez; Leslie Anderson; Karmay Miller "><br><b>Cc:</b> Barbara Hart; Alice Williams<br><b>Subject:</b> Would your visually impaired students be interested in an art tour?</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Dear Educator:<br>The Committee for Touring the Blind has scheduled the following tour topics for the coming months:<br>February 20 - <b>The Romance of the West<br></b>March 20 - <b>Venice's Golden Age of Art and Music</b><br>April - 17 - <b>Guest Artist demonstrates print-making</b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Please let me know if you would like your visually impaired students to visit the museum for a tour on one of these topics. We can schedule a special tour for your group on another Thursday afternoon. There is no charge for the tour, and students and an appropriate number of "helpers" receive free admission to the museum.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Regards,<br>Sylvia Lurie</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>PS. Here is additional information about the February 20 tour.... </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>.......<br>Artists have been drawn to the American West since stories of the Lewis and Clark expedition were revealed in the early 1800s. With its vast, rugged landscape, Native American population, and tough-as-nails cowboys, the West was a larger than life experience artists wanted to share with urban Easterners. Their creative renditions captured the imagination of those who yearned to see for themselves the beauty and power of this still untamed wilderness. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> Our tour will focus on three different types of western art, as interpreted by artists who were, if briefly, part of the western legend. <i>Tour participants will be able to touch one of the pieces (a sculpture) with gloved hands.</i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span></i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The tour begins at <u>2:30 p.m. Thursday, February 20</u>. Participants assemble at the museum’s main entrance, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland. (Those requiring a ramp should come in at the Members Entrance on the north side of the building.)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The tour is free with museum membership. Non-museum members who are visually impaired pay $3 for museum admission and may bring in one helper at no charge. Children 17 and under are free. Seating is provided, and guide dogs are welcome. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Please let us know if you will attend the tour by calling and leaving a message at 503-276-4290.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>