[accessibleimage] Art Beyond Sight: Multi-modal Approaches to Learning Conference in NYC: Schedule and Registration form attached

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Send your registration forms in by September 20, 2005.

Art Beyond Sight: Multi-modal Approaches to Learning


Organized by Art Education for the Blind, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
and the Museum Access Consortium


Locations: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Dahesh
Museum of Art


Friday and Saturday, October 14-15, 2005


In a culture in which vision is by far the dominant sense, and life revolves
around the visual, the potential for learning through other sensory
modalities is too often ignored.  This innovative international conference
will address the challenge faced by educators, artists and museum
professionals to create multi-modal learning opportunities that better serve
all audiences. Psychologists and educators will explore ideas and recent
research findings relating to other learning modalities, including touch,
sound, language, kinesthetics, and even smell. The conference will also
examine the relationships between vision, non-vision, and the other senses,
through discussions focusing on blindness and learning. Issues raised
include the communication of ideas about visual culture through non-visual
means, cross-modal interaction and multi-sensory integration, and the
implications of Universal Design for learning.  Fore more information email
coordinator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:coordinator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Day I ? At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 81st Street



Morning session: Perspectives on Multi-modal Learning in Practice


10.00                Welcome: Elisabeth Axel, Art Education for the Blind
10.15                Keynote Address: David Howes, Concordia University,
Montreal
10.50                Keynote Address: Georgina Kleege, University of
California, Berkeley
11.25                Touch and Museums: Fiona Candlin, Birkbeck College,
University of London
11.50                Picture This! At the Met: Rebecca McGinnis and Deborah
Jaffe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
12.10                Multi-sensory Programming for People Who Are Blind and
Visually Impaired: Hannah Goodwin, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
12.30                Panel Discussion: Chair -- Nina Levent, Art Education
for the Blind
1.00                  Lunch
(Opportunity to talk with Met educators and experience samples of verbal
imaging and touch tours)

Afternoon Session: Cross-modal Interactions, Mental Imagery
 and Strategies for Learning

2.15                  Esref Armagan and Perspective in Tactile Pictures:
John M. Kennedy & Igor Juricevic, University of Toronto
2.40                  Learning about Seeing from a Congenitally Blind
Painter: Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
3:05                  Coffee Break
3.25                                    Recognizing Tactual Line Drawings by
People who Are Visually Impaired -- Images, Memory and Learning: Linda
Pring, Goldsmiths College, University of London
3:50                  Cross-modal Attention and Multi-sensory Integration:
Charles Spence, Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Oxford University
4:15                  Visual Cortical Activity during Tactile Perception in
the Sighted and Blind: Krish Sathian, M.D., Ph.D., Emory University
4:40                  Panel Discussion: Chairs -- Lotfi Merabet, Harvard
Medical School and Morton Heller, Eastern Illinois University
5:30                  Closing Statement: David Rose, Harvard School of
Education and CAST, Universal Design for Learning. Making Meaning and
Reference for Educators. How this Research Informs Teaching Strategies and
Techniques for Teaching Every Student
6:00                  Close of Conference Day One

Evening            Opportunity to talk with Met educators and experience
samples of verbal imaging and touch tours

Dutch-treat Dinner and Discussion options:
*       Employment for People with Disabilities - led by Andrea
Haenlin-Mott, Director, Northeast ADA and IT Center, Cornell University
*       Universal Design ? led by Valerie Fletcher, Director, Adaptive
Environments, Boston
Locations, price ranges, and additional topics to be announced.


Saturday, October 15, 2005



Day 2: Morning Session ? At the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street


9:00                  Welcome: Francesca Rosenberg, Museum of Modern Art
(MoMA) and
Museum Access Consortium (MAC)

9:10                  Multi-modal Approaches to Environments and
Communications. Best Practices.
Chair: Beth Ziebarth, Smithsonian Institution
Panelists:
Tish Brown, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Barry Ginley, The Victoria & Albert Museum
Andrea Haenlin-Mott, Northeast ADA and IT Center, Cornell University
Joel Snyder, Director of Described Media, National Captioning Institute

10:10                Break

10:30                Teaching Through Touch: Touch and Interactive Exhibits
and Tools
Chairs: Francesca Rosenberg, MoMA and MAC
Panelists:
Julie Watson, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK

Debra Hegstrom, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Nelie Plourde, Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, Texas
Cindy Vanden Bosch, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NYC
Sandra Malmquist, Connecticut Children?s Museum
Ann Winters, Denver Museum of Art

12:00                Lunch Break

12:00-1:00         Optional:  MoMA Touch Tours in the Galleries and
Sculpture Garden


Afternoon Session ? At the Dahesh Museum of Art, 580 Madison Avenue (between
56-57 Sts.)


2:00                  Teaching Strategies to Engage all the Senses

Chair: Mickie Silverstein, Art Institute of Chicago
Panelists:
Sofie Andersen, Antenna Audio Inc.
Louise Brasher, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Sandra Eastwood, formerly of Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Hope McMath, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida
Ines Powell, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Ken Struve, South Street Seaport, NY
Street Thoma, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Elke Zollitsch, Bavarian Association of the Blind & Partially Sighted,
Munich

3:30                  Break

4:00                  Artists Respond to the Multi-sensory Challenge
Chair: Pam Rogers, Pure Visions Art Studio/The Shield Institute
Panelists:
Mark Andres, Seeing With Photography Collective
Ann Cunningham, Artist & Educator
Betty Haskin, Duke University Eye Center
Barry Kleider, Freelance Photographer
Sharareh Khayami, Blind Art, UK
Carol Kreiser & Janet Simon, Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children
Pearl Rosen, Independent Consultant
Stephanie Moore, VSA arts

Nina Levent, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Art Education for the Blind, Inc.
589 Broadway, 4th floor
New York, NY 10012
(212) 334 8721
director@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.artbeyondsight.org

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