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

[Jerry Kuns]

Yama,

I have shared this announcement with The Lighthouse, Contemporary Juish Museum, and the Public Library in San Francisco. I would love to find this exhibition here in San Francisco. Sorry I will not be able to get to Austin before early winter this year. I would love to get my hands on your work.

Jerry Kuns

On Sep 6, 2018 6:16 PM, Yama Paper via TAGS <tags at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Dear list: please copy and spread, and feel free to give opinions, etc. Thank you!
> Of course, y'all invited!
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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
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> opening: September 21, 7 pm, ImagineArt, Austin
> open until October 15
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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