[TAGS] Touch This Art! The Aztec Calendar Stone art-for-the-blind exhibit, Austin, Texas, September 2018

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Touch This Art!
An exhibit of high-relief art inspired on the Aztec Calendar Stone
art-for-the-blind, Austin, Texas, September 2018
website (still in construction) bit.ly/touchthisart

opening: September 21, 7 pm, ImagineArt, Austin
open until October 15

This September 2018 show in Austin, Texas, presents large stylized
high-relief champ-levé glyphs of that monumental, complex monolith
sculpture, with Braille English/Spanish description of their meaning and
Nauahtl name. Animals, the central face, the Days, the Winds are there,
while high relief maps and text give context. Fans that blow with the
directions of the wind add to the immersive experience when the
corresponding symbols are touched, fragrances of chocolate and chile,
localized sound, give a multisensorial experience, in an art gallery with
just enough light to keep the sighted safe, encouraging the interaction
with the art to be non-visual on purpose.

To continue the sharing of First Nations culture by touch beyond the
exhibit itself, an intercultural English and Spanish Braille book also with
some Nahuatl words portrays the exhibit pieces in page-size high-relief.
Preparation of these materials was done with the participation of
visually-impaired artists from the Imagine Art community.

Open to all public, reaching out especially to the blind and visually
impaired, this non-profit project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts
Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department and donors,
who are encouraged to purchase art or book pages for donation to Blind and
Visually Impaired initiatives in the US, Mexico, Bolivia, and Nepal.

Yama Ploskonka is a maker of quality handmade paper, letterpress printer,
cutter of type at Papel Texano in Austin, this being his first solo show in
the United States.
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