[Artists-making-art] my introduction

[Kestrell]

Hello

My name is Kestrell and I live in the Boston area. I am totally blind, but was low vision until my early twenties. Growing up, I was an art 
student. 

For the past few years, I have been helping to organize a tactile art show for a Boston-area science fiction convention, and it resparked my interest in making and appreciating art, so last year about this time, I decided that I wanted to get more art in my life. A number of great events, such as this list, seem to have occurred during this year. Another great event was the visit of Simon Hayhoe, an academic who studies and writes books about teaching art to blind people (you can find his books on Bookshare, and he also has a Web site which you can find through his Wikipedia entry).

I've been trying different art media, including tactile tapestrymaking (I use things like ribbon, hemp cord, beads, and fabric for this), wire sculpture, and tie-dying. On Thursday, the blind crafters list will be having a class on creating tie-dye with permanent marker, so I'm looking forward to that, as it is a lot less messy than using powder dyes and gives the artist a lot more control.

I've also been blogging about different resources I have found and writing a book about my experiences reintroducing myself to art as a blind person.

Kestrell
http://kestrell.livejournal.com   
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