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

Hi, Nina!

Just a quick note to let you know how much I'm looking forward to taking part in the Multi-modal Approaches conference!

Here's a tiny request: in future announcements, can you change the description of me from "Freelance photographer" to "Photographer and arts educator"

Thanks,

Barry



Nina Levent, Associate Director, AEB wrote:

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*There is still time to register for the conference. *

*Send your registration forms in by September 20, 2005.*

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*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/*

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

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*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 81^st 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*

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*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*

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



Dutch-treat Dinner and Discussion options:

q Employment for People with Disabilities - led by Andrea Haenlin-Mott, Director, Northeast ADA and IT Center, Cornell University

q Universal Design - led by Valerie Fletcher, Director, Adaptive Environments, Boston

Locations, price ranges, and additional topics to be announced.

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*Saturday, October 15, 2005*

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*_Day 2: Morning Session - At the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street_*__

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*9:00 Welcome: Francesca Rosenberg, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and*

*Museum Access Consortium (MAC)*

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*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*

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*10:10                Break *

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*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*

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

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*_Afternoon Session_*_ - At the __Dahesh Museum of Art, 580 Madison Avenue (between 56-57 Sts.)___

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*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*

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3:30                  Break

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*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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