[TAGS] Braille Text for Drop In Art Exhibit 2025

[ann acunningham.com]

Wow, I have no idea how I posted to TAGS but now you all know, be sure to stop by the Drop In Art Room in New Orleans this year! We will be there from 1PM until 6PM on the 8th and the 9th of July. We are talking about the National Federation of the Blind Convention in New Orleans, July 8th through the 13th.Hope to see you there!

For more information go to: NFB.org

Ann Cunningham
Tactile/Visual Artist
303 887-1713
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Thanks a million, Chancey, this is saving me about four hours no matter how I did it. I appreciate your help. And it will look nicer I am sure! Ann


Flying Squirrel at Dusk
Lana Van Horn
7” x 10”
embroidery floss on embroidery fabric
2025

This piece came out of my interest in needle felting. There were tutorials on all kinds of animals: bats, owls, squirrels, birds, hedge hogs, etc. The thought came to me, What about flying squirrels?

That raised a whole bunch of other questions. What were they exactly? Were they really just another form of bat? Why did no one speak of them?
I did some research and learned they were not at all the same as bats. They don't really fly but glide from branch to branch, tree to tree. People don't talk about them because they live in forests and come out either at dusk or after dark, so are rarely seen.

Since their descriptions sounded really cute, and since, as a totally blind person, I could not study the photograph. I went to Amazon and bought a plush toy flying squirrel.
It was way cuter than I expected. I had to do something with it.
This is the result. I had the help of my local embroiders' group, Centennial State Chapter, Rocky Mountain Region, Embroiderers' Guild of America in choosing colors.

I outlined the squirrel in Back Stitch. It is the easiest way to design a piece and make corrections before more elaborate stitches are applied.

I used layers of long and short stitch to make the head and body stand out from the gliders which extend from each front leg to each back. These permit the little animals to glide from branch to branch or tree to tree, as the one in this picture is doing. I added random long stitches on the top to indicate fur.


Night Vigil
Lana Van Horn
8” x 10”
embroidery floss on embroidery fabric
2025

A horse standing on a hill at night proudly surveying his realm with a crescent moon and distant mountain peaks above is entirely my own design. I have plenty of horse figurines to help.

House with Trees
Lana Van Horn
8” x 10”
embroidery floss on needlepoint canvas
2025

is intended to show how, with needlepoint canvas, one can count threads and thus keep doors and windows square and even with each other.
As with the squirrel, my local EGA chapter helped me with the color-selections on these pieces.







Ann Cunningham
Tactile/Visual Artist
303 887-1713
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