[accessibleimage] Art Beyond Sight Event- Art Beyond Sight Book and Video Launch

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Art Beyond Sight Event
[Re]-visioning Art, Art History, Aesthetics, and Creativity
Celebrating 17 years of Art Education for the Blind
Date: Thursday, June 3, 2004 begin at 10:30 a.m. sharp
Location: American Museum of Folk Art
45 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
10:30
Art Beyond Sight Book and Video Launch
.
Art Education for the Blind, the Museum of Modern Art, and
American Foundation for the
Blind launch an innovative book and companion video on
making art accessible to people
who are blind or have low vision. Coffee and refreshments
served.
Meet some of the authors and contributors in the book and
the video
: New Jersey Historical Society, Jewish Museum, Lower East
Side Tenement Museum,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Queens
Museum of Art, Jewish
Guild for the Blind, American Foundation for the Blind
(AFB), American Printing House
for the Blind (APH), Arts and Health Outreach Initiative
(AHOI), Pennsylvania State
University, National Center for Disability Services,
National Exhibits by Blind
Artists (NEBA), National Federation of the Blind (NFB),
Baltimore, Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, Lighthouse International
12:00-1:00 Break for Lunch in the Neighborhood
1:00 Re-visioning Art, Art History, Aesthetics, and
Creativity: Presentations and
Workshops by Master Educators 
2:30 Stunning Artwork
--
both realistic and abstract
--
by the artist who has never seen light or shadow. View the
work of Esref Armagan and
see him demonstrating his techniques.
Recognition Awards given to selected docents and educators
by Esref Armagan on behalf
of the Art Beyond Sight Collaborative
YOU ARE ALSO INVITED to preview paintings by Esref Armagan,
the self-taught Turkish
folk artist who is congenitally blind, on June 2, 2004 6-9
PM, at the Turkish Culture
and Tourism Office, 821 UN Plaza, First Avenue and 46th
Street, Ground Floor.
Cocktails and hors d'ouevres.  RSVP:  AG Krakow 212 285 2370

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