[TAGS] Artworks at Tactile painting exhibition

[peter at slatingroup.com]

This is wonderful, Aishwarya. Have you discussed concepts  such as
perspective or abstraction with your participants?

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Hi Don,

Thank you for your interest in the workshop and exhibition. There is a lot
that happened behind the scenes.  My work place is a rehabilitation centre
for persons with vision loss.  So it became easy to mobilize participants
for it.  I had also circulated the information on various social forums.
The first workshop had 35 participants, both late and congenitally blind.
The sessions in this included; 1. Understanding the  meaning of various
colors:
In this, I had briefed the participants about positive and negative meanings
associated with each color, for example red can be associated with anger and
passion, pink with unconditional love and silliness, etc.  I had also shared
with them a color reference sheet consisting a list of various elements in
nature and their colors.  this sheet was very useful to those who were
congenitally blind as it helped them understand and choose colors for their
painting.
2. Usage of different types of tactile elements This included lessons on
what tactile materials they can use.  For example, tissue paper, beads,
ice-cream sticks, aluminum foil, etc 3. Painting techniques:
basic brush strokes and finger painting
4. execution on canvas
This included how they would paint the background of the painting and gluing
the tactile objects onto it.

I had also showed them four tactile paintings that I had made earlier so
that they have an idea how the output would look.  In the end, we had an
interactive session wherein I encouraged them to come up with different
themes and ideas.  The second workshop was to be heled in a week.  During
this time, I had personally talked to each participant and and understood
what their ideas were.  We discussed and simplified it so that it would be
easy for them to create as it was there first time.  16 participants were
filtered based on their interest and willingness.
On the scheduled date, we had provided the materials and assigned a
volunteer to assist them.  It took one whole day to finish their paintings.
I was so elated to see the results.
As for the exhibition, I had again circulated the information among various
social forums.  I had also designed the booklets to give away to the
visitors.  It consisted of images of the paintings along with their
description. The Communications department at my work place helped me to
invite local media.  Finally the day had arrived when the paintings were
displayed and highly appreciated.  So that's it I think.  Sorry if my mail
was too long.

Aishwarya.

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