[Nfb-krafters-korner] Crafting a Show

[Annette Carr]

That is so exciting.  Please keep us up to date on how it is progressing and
all of the wonderful things that come out of it.

Annette


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Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Crafting a Show

Good Morning, Krafter's-Korner Friends,

 

I have been fairly quiet lately because I am "up to my EYES"  in an exciting
new project. I will most likely be inactive for the next few months because
I have to focus my attention on the project. For those of you who are
interested in art, I wanted to pass along my news to you to give you an idea
of how our passions in making beautiful things can sometimes be so uplifting
to others in a very different way.

 

My news to share this morning is this:

 

I have begun work on a new  museum exhibition with Suzanne Gibson; she is a
blind painter and the owner of River's Edge Gallery, New Brighton, PA. 

 

Our two-person show is tentatively set to open in the Spring, 2014. Dates
will be confirmed in late July by the Merrick Art Gallery and Museum, New
Brighton, Pennsylvania.  

 

We have titled our show, "Vision and Re-Vision." 

 

Suzanne and I are both blind artists who have encountered profound  changes
through loss of vision. I have Ischemic Optic Neuropathy, and Suzanne has
Stargardt disease. My sight loss was nearly instantaneous; Suzanne's loss of
vision has been gradual and progressive. We both faced the "What to do now?"
question when sight loss forced us to consider how we would continue to make
art without seeing what we are doing.

 

We gave our forthcoming exhibition the title, "Vision and Re-vision"
because  we have both had our "normal" lives changed and have had to refocus
our ways of living and making art.  Our exhibition will  focus on how we
make art without sight, or with greatly altered vision.   Suzanne will be
creating paintings for the show. I am working on new pottery pieces and bead
worked fiber pieces and texts.  "Vision and Re-Vision" will bring visitors
into our  world through Video, Literature, Photography, Paintings, and Mixed
media fiber arts.  

 

We plan to have wall texts done in Braille as well as print for visitors. We
are going to have a Video Loop made of us working and talking about our art
and our sight loss experiences - it will play continuously in the show on a
large monitor. We are creating  a book that will be introduced the  night of
our opening. The book will feature personal reflections on our sight loss,
poems, photos of our art, and descriptions of how we work with adaptive
technologies for the blind.  

 

Let's see, yes, we are creating posters  and will create a  display on "
Vision and Re-Vision" as an introduction to our show; visitors will
experience this display as they  enter the gallery.  

 

Suzanne's background training is in Design and mine is in Fine Art and
English Literature. We will combine our mutual passions to create an
exhibition that we believe will be intelligent, informative, educational,
and beautiful. 

 

This exhibition will likely travel to other venues following it's launch in
the spring of 2014. We want to share our work with as many people as we can
through this exhibition.

 



Lynda McKinney Lambert, BFA, MA, MFA

Author of Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage

 

http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com

 

 
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