[Artists-making-art] Hello fellow artist

[Kendra Schaber]

Hi Bridgit, I know that you asked for ideas. Heare are my ideas that I have 
for you.  I would incourige you to go for more than one format because that 
will cover everyone in the end. The audio route covers sited people, braille 
readers, people who are not literite and people who can't read in any other 
form due to disability. Print works for anyone who can't use the audio route 
due to hearing disabilities and those who choose not to read audio books and 
who can still read print. Braille works for any braille user who also has 
hearing disabilities as well as blindness. Electronic format works for 
anyone who has their own computer because their computer will have the 
technology on it to access that format. Even people with disabilities have 
their own computers afterall. What do you think?
Kendra Schaber
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
To: "'An exploration of art by and for blind persons'" 
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Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 12:08 PM
Subject: [Artists-making-art] Hello fellow artist


> Dear List,
>
> I'm Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter and live in Omaha, Nebraska. I'm
> 30-years-old, a writer and live with my husband, Ross, and our chocolate
> labradoodle, Nessa. We also consider ourselves the surrogate parents of
> a two-year-old, Penny, who just celebrated her second birthday this past
> Sunday. She's technically our niece on my side, but my sister was very
> young when she had Penny, and my husband and I have helped. Pen calls me
> mama, and we have her almost every weekend. She's been a huge joy to us,
> and I can't imagine loving a person so much, and yet I do. I'm a mother
> in every way but biologically to her.
>
> My art is writing, but since childhood, I've been drawn to any artistic
> expression. I have a deep appreciation for the arts and arts education,
> and I think everyone should be exposed to art regardless of a
> disability.
>
> Growing up, I danced (ballet, pointe, tap and jazz) as well as was
> involved with music and theatre. I found ways in which to incorporate
> visual media along with physical expressions. I did not lose my sight
> until I was 22, but I continue to find ways in which to incorporate a
> visual element with other expressions. I not only want to learn, and
> share, how others view, create and incorporate artistic expressions into
> their lives, but I want to learn how to make art accessible in a
> nonvisual way, and how we, as blind artist, can experience different art
> formats.
>
> I recently had an idea and have started working on fusing an essay I
> wrote with a visual element. The visual aspect isn't exactly accessible
> however, but I'm, well not actually me, but a friend, is handwriting, in
> a silver ink, an essay I wrote onto old vinyls. The essay weaves music
> lyrics throughout connecting different sections of the essay. We're
> trying to find vinyls with album titles that fit the theme of the essay
> too, which is about acceptance and bullying, in a nutshell. I invite
> suggestions of how something like this can be more accessible. I have of
> course thought of Braille, but this then makes it readable only to those
> who can read Braille. I've also considered adding audio with the actual
> installation so viewers could hear me reading the essay as well, which
> would at least make the written part accessible to everyone.
>
> I'm excited to meet others and learn what you're doing. Whether for fun
> or professionally, art is a representation of beauty, and everyone
> should experience this beauty. In past generations, it was the artist
> community that affected the most change in terms of pushing for equality
> and demanding rights for a minority. The Harlem Renaissance, the Beat
> culture, Civil Rights- we still feel the power and influence of the
> artistic expressions blooming from these eras. Race, ethnicity, gender,
> war, sexual-orientation- change happened when various artist forced the
> world to view equality and suffering through art. Perhaps it's time the
> disabled community followed suit and let our artistic expressions rise
> up in a harmony that is so beautiful, so powerful, so gritty, so
> poignant, the world has to stop and finally, truly notice us.
>
> Sincerely,
> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Read my blog at:
> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>
> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>
>
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