[accessibleimage] Re: [Art_beyond_sight_advocacy] Articles, Sculpture, ralley, haptics,ViewPlus, auction

Just an addenddum to all that is going on at the moment. The Four Senses 
Exhibition is on Friday, as part of Sense and Sensuality at The Henry moore 
Gallery, Royal College of Art, London. If you are in town, we'd love to see 
you after it opens at 12pm. Details of the exhibition, which we completed 
today at the Royal London School for the Blind, can be found on 
http://www.blindart.net, and click on the events' section.
Nearest tube station to the exhibition is South Kensington or High Street 
Kensington, and the college is just around the corner from the Albert Hall 
and opposite Kensington Gardens.


Believe me, its going to be good!!! There's a mudrock Budha, a marshmallow 
branch and a paper and soot flame. Attached is our draft manifesto, 
explaining the philosophy of our teaching and artefacts.


_______________________________________________


Simon Hayhoe
London,
British Isles.



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>Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_advocacy] Articles, Sculpture, ralley, 
haptics,ViewPlus, auction
>Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:01:57 +0100
>
>
>Hi,
>Sending a mixed batch of articles. Links to articles first,
>followed by text.
>Regards,
>Lisa
>
>
>Sculpture offers touch of Eugene
>
>http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/02/21/b1.cr.braillesculpture.0221.html
>Touching Art
>http://www2.kval.com/x30530.xml?ParentPageID=x2649&ContentID=x49277&Layout=kval.xsl&AdGroupID=x30530
>
>
>Guided by blind, they drive to their goal
>http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=118484
>
>haptic
>http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/news/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19855_3576012,00.html
>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-02/ns-tts022305.php
>
>photography
>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002186426_blind22.html
>
>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/212965_ecenter22.html
>
>ViewPlus
>Successful vision
>
>http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/02/22/news/business/monbiz01.txt
>
>
>accessible art auction
>http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/living/10963198.htm
>http://accessiblearts.org/
>
>
>College Play
>http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2005/02_23-68/ENT
>
>Most of the plays are comedies, except scenes from William
>Gibson's "The Miracle Worker," the story of blind and deaf
>Helen Keller, whose teacher, Anne Sullivan, taught her to
>communicate.
>
>
>
>
>
>February 21, 2005
>
>Sculpture offers touch of Eugene
>
>By Randi Bjornstad
>The Register-Guard
>
>
>
>Relishing the warm, nearly spring sun atop Skinner Butte
>recently, Jeanne-Marie Moore took in the view from the top
>of the historic hill: tall conifers in the foreground,
>downtown businesses and houses stretching south along
>Willamette Street, Spencer Butte far in the background.
>But instead of using her eyes to enjoy the sights, Moore
>used her fingertips. Blind since birth, the Eugene resident
>traced streets and landmarks on a bronze bas-relief
>sculpture created by local artist Martha Snyder.
>
>The heavy plaque will be installed permanently on top of the
>butte on Tuesday to give vision-impaired people a "tactile
>view" of the landscape as well as offering an artistic
>rendering of the scene for others who visit the viewing
>area.
>
>
>Jeanne-Marie Moore runs her fingers over the bronze
>sculpture by artist Martha Snyder that depicts a tactile
>view from the top of Skinner Butte.
>
>
>Martha Snyder (right) helps Jeanne-Marie Moore feel her way
>around the bronze sculpture on Skinner Butte.
>
>Photos: Chris Pietsch / The Register-Guard
>
>
>"Is this a spire?" Moore asked as she ran her fingers over
>the downtown area.
>
>"No, it's the top of the old Eugene Hotel," Snyder said.
>"But this building is a church with a cross on top," she
>continued, guiding Moore's fingers to the historic First
>Christian Church at East 11th Avenue and Oak Street.
>
>Moore pronounced the sculpture a success, despite the
>difficulty for a never-sighted person to grasp the concepts
>of distance and perspective that seeing counterparts take
>for granted.
>
>"When I was growing up, everyone stressed adapting to being
>blind," she said. "Exploring what I was missing wasn't in
>the game plan. But having some understanding of dimension
>and perspective has a huge effect on a person's world view,
>and that's the importance of something like this sculpture."
>
>She recalls vividly such an experience during her first trip
>to Europe, when a friend encouraged her to stand on the base
>of a statue in the Louvre gallery and feel the flowing
>tresses of the marble figure.
>
>Despite the uproar that it caused - "a guard followed us
>around for the rest of the time we were there," Moore
>remembers wryly that simple touch gave her a perception that
>could not have happened any other way.
>
>Snyder has been trying to provide that kind of world view
>for people with disabilities ever since she realized while
>working at the Maude Kerns Art Center in the early 1990s
>"that I'd be really sad if I couldn't see all that artwork."
>
>"Then I realized that as a sculptor, I could do something
>about it," she said.
>
>She created tactile versions of eight of Kerns' paintings,
>and then built a relief map of Crater Lake National Park and
>the Fort Clatsop National Memorial that chronicles the
>Oregon portion of the journey 200 years ago of explorers
>Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
>
>Snyder, who wears a button that reads "T.A.B. - temporarily
>able-bodied," started working on the Skinner Butte bronze
>three years ago, supported by grants from the Lane Arts
>Council, the city of Eugene and a tourism special projects
>grant from Lane County.
>
>It will be installed on a permanent pedestal, at a height
>and angle that will also make it accessible to wheelchair
>users.
>
>SKINNER BUTTE SCULPTURE
>
>City officials will dedicate a panoramic bas-relief of
>Eugene from Skinner Butte to Spencer Butte. The art- work
>provides a "tactile view" of the city for people with vision
>impairments.
>
>When: Noon Tuesday
>
>Where: At the summit of Skinner Butte, in the public parking
>area, reachable via Lincoln Street or East Third Avenue.
>
>Information: City of Eugene Parks and Open Space, 682-4800
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  News Monday , February 21, 2005
>
>
>NEWS
>
>Guided by blind, they drive to their goal
>
>Anurita Rathore
>
>Ahmedabad, February 20: It was not an easy task for Dinesh
>Behl to drive his car as his navigator was Sanjay Mistry, a
>blind and deaf man of 27 from Khedbrahma. Behl had to keep
>one eye on the road and another on Mistry?s hands to
>understand sign language. ??But it was challenging and
>exhilarating,?? says Behl, who participated in the 8th Blind
>People Car Rally on Sunday.
>
>Organised by the Blind People?s Association and Round Table,
>the rally saw a record of 80 participants ? the highest
>number in 10 years.
>
>
>
>For Akhil Paul, Director of Sense International ? an
>institute working with the hearing impaired and visually
>challenged people ? ??the rally gave an opportunity for
>people like Nirav Mehta to come into the limelight.??
>
>Nirav Mehta is a 36-year-old visually challenged and hearing
>impaired man. Having done his MCom in Advanced Accounting
>and Auditing, he is working as a junior programmer in GEB,
>Bharuch, now. Blind from birth, he lost his ability to hear
>when he was 10.
>
>??Participating in the rally has given me a chance to meet
>new people and learn something new from them. It has given
>me a kick,?? says Mehta, whose younger brother Rushikesh is
>also visually challenged.
>
>The participants were given a road map (written in Braille)
>minutes before the competition began. The rally covered a
>71-km route beginning from the Blind People?s Association
>going through Shilaj, Himmatnagar highway, Thaltej, Sun
>City, Sarkhej-Gandhinagar highway and back to BPA ? with 12
>time-control points that each vehicle had to pass through,
>ensuring they were on the right track. This year, no one was
>misled or lost, says BPA Director Bhushan Punani.
>
>Rahul, Koshali and Aadit Sanghani were navigated by
>Khavadiya Mahesh, a visually challenged man who recently won
>the first prize in singing at a disability competition show
>held on January 2. ??I am glad I drove. I wanted to
>experience their world,?? says Aadit Sanghani.
>
>For the Shahs, who are in India from Nairobi for a holiday,
>participating in the rally and being guided by a visually
>challenged person was a unique experience.
>
>Gaurang Shah and his wife Krishna, say: ??Heena Thakkar, 20,
>navigated the way for us. Today, I realised how difficult
>life can be without sight. Since we had to rely on her, we
>realised how life would be if we couldn?t see and had to
>depend on someone else to show us the way. But it was
>amazing how she would realise if we went past the same road
>twice, even if we didn?t!??
>
>
>New Scientist
>
>
>The touchy-feely side of telecoms
>At the end of March Samsung will release a mobile phone with
>a difference. Not only will it be able to send images and
>streaming video, but the phone can vibrate in such a way
>that you can add the sensation of a playful tickle to your
>text message, or make the person on the other end of the
>phone feel as if their handset has slapped them across the
>face. Welcome to the world of haptics- the technology of
>recreating touch and texture through artificial stimuli.
>The most widespread use of haptics so far is in video
>gaming, in the vibrating game pads and force-feedback
>steering wheels that accompany Sony's PlayStation 2 and
>Microsoft's Xbox. These devices give you a sense of how good
>a virtual golfing shot was from the force feedback on the
>joystick, or let you feel how close you are to being run off
>the road in racing games.
>
>But Samsung's phone is the first mass-market use of haptics.
>When you send a text message you can add one of a number of
>sensations from a menu. When the person reads the message,
>"vibrotactile" motors in their phone are activated. These
>are basically more complex versions of the motors that allow
>many mobile phones to vibrate when ringing. The precise
>frequency and amplitude of the vibrations generated by the
>motors simulates the desired sensation. "I have been waiting
>for this for a few years. It's a challenge to develop
>systems that are low-cost and lightweight," says Ed Colgate,
>a mechanical engineer who works on haptics at Northwestern
>University in Chicago.
>
>The haptic technology behind game pads and the Samsung
>phones has been developed by Immersion of San Jose,
>California, which is one of the leading companies in this
>fast-growing field. From these simple beginnings, analysts
>think the technology will have many applications, for
>example, in haptic gloves and pads designed to give online
>shoppers a feel for products. Imagine being able to feel the
>quality of a cashmere sweater before you buy it, experience
>the roadholding of a car or feel the finish of a piece of
>furniture. "Physical involvement creates a real attachment
>and is lacking in online interactions," says Colgate.
>
>Just like graphics and sound, touch can be coded as digital
>bits. They are sent in packets over the internet or a
>cellphone network then reassembled or "rendered" in some
>form at the other end. So why has it taken so long for the
>technology to develop? "Haptics is fundamentally more
>difficult over the internet than sound or vision," says
>Colgate. This is partly because touch encompasses a wide
>variety of physical factors including force, vibration,
>temperature and texture, and unlike light or sound, it can
>be sensed over the whole body.
>
>But there are ways to simplify the problem. In 1996 three
>researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>built a three-jointed robotic arm called the Phantom that
>lets you experience the feeling of doing surgery. On the end
>of the arm is a stylus that you grip like a pen, and as you
>manipulate it, the forces in the arm mimic the sensation of
>cutting through tendons or placing a catheter, for example.
>The Phantom gives medical students experience of surgery
>without putting patients at risk.
>
>Another problem is that touch is interactive - you have to
>press something to feel it. This two-way quality is
>difficult to achieve over the internet because of delays
>called latencies, which can mount up and disrupt the
>interaction. Although a delay of more than 200 milliseconds
>may be acceptable for holding a phone conversation or
>watching video, touch needs a fairly immediate reaction to
>be realistic, says Kenneth Salisbury of Stanford University,
>California, one of the inventors of the Phantom.
>
>For haptics to reach their full potential, the technology
>also has to be able to convey a wide range of tactile
>sensations. Sile O'Modhrain of Media Lab Europe in Dublin,
>Ireland, says that "pre-packaged" haptics have barely
>scratched the surface. For example, a student at MIT has
>built a phone that can transmit a squeeze of varying
>strength. Accelerometers in the phone measure the strength
>and speed of the squeeze and reproduce the effect at the
>other end of the line, making it feel a bit like holding
>hands. Much of the technology needed to achieve such effects
>already exists, O'Modhrain says.
>
>O'Modhrain has a personal interest in haptics: she happens
>to be blind. A touch-based internet could be a real boon,
>but efforts so far have not been impressive. They have
>concentrated on reproducing the raised outline of shapes
>such as graphs and pie charts. But as Curtis Chang of the
>Iowa-based National Federation of the Blind in Computer
>Science points out: "If you grew up blind, they don't mean
>anything to you."
>
>
>Successful vision
>
>ViewPlus sees big potential in adding ink to embosser that
>prints for the blind
>
>By BENNETT HALL
>Gazette-Times business editor
>
>With barely a week to go before the company's new product is
>scheduled to ship, the manufacturing department is smack in
>the middle of moving.
>
>
>The old fabrication area is already cleared out, but the new
>one is still being set up. Employees are ferrying parts and
>equipment from one building to another on handcarts, and
>somebody dropped one of the finished units, cracking the
>housing.
>
>Not that anyone seems concerned about all this chaos ?
>that's just the price of success for ViewPlus Technologies.
>
>In less than two years, the company has outgrown its
>7,000-square-foot building in the Airport Industrial Park
>and recently leased an additional 1,800 square feet next
>door. In the coming months, ViewPlus expects to lease
>additional pieces of the mostly vacant 15,000-square-foot
>structure.
>
>"We reckon that, over the course of the next year, we will
>fill that up," said company founder John Gardner, a former
>Oregon State University physics professor who lost his sight
>from complications following surgery in 1988.
>
>Incorporated in 1999, the Corvallis company makes a line of
>computer printers for blind people. Like other printers for
>the visually impaired, the ViewPlus Embosser prints text in
>Braille characters using raised dots. Unlike most, however,
>it can also produce tactile versions of graphic images, from
>maps to diagrams to drawings that mimic visual shading with
>seven levels of depth.
>
>The ViewPlus line has been a hit with schools, universities
>and other institutional customers in the United States and
>abroad. From three employees and $68,000 in sales that first
>year, the company grew to 15 employees and $900,000 in sales
>in 2003, when it moved from incubator space in the Business
>Enterprise Center to its current location. Today ViewPlus
>has 30 employees, and it's projecting $2.5 million in sales
>for 2005.
>
>One reason for that optimism is the company's latest
>innovation, scheduled to start shipping next Monday.
>
>The Pro Ink Attachment ? PIA, for short ? is an add-on that
>works with the ViewPlus Pro Embosser, the company's
>top-of-the-line model. Using twin Hewlett-Packard inkjet
>printheads, the PIA produces a single-color visual
>equivalent of the raised-dot image created by the embosser.
>
>The Pro Ink Attachment will sell for $3,995. The ViewPlus
>Pro Embosser sells for $9,750. While those prices are beyond
>the reach of most individuals, the low-volume, high-margin
>assistive technology market targets institutions, which can
>afford to invest in the spendy hardware.
>
>Using ViewPlus software that works with the near-universal
>Windows computer operating system, the PIA can be set up to
>overprint large text letters on top of individual Braille
>characters, a useful aid in teaching Braille to people with
>low or failing vision.
>
>It can also print a grayscale image directly over an
>embossed graphic or print lines of text between lines of
>Braille. That capability opens up a much broader potential
>application: giving sighted teachers a visual analog to what
>their blind students are reading or writing in Braille.
>
>"I think that's going to be the lion's share of our sales,"
>said Rob Sanders, the company's bright-eyed young director
>of sales and marketing. "Blind students are mainstreamed
>more and more in this country ? you'll have one blind
>student in a regular classroom."
>
>In elementary, secondary and university classrooms across
>America, teachers with no specialized training often
>struggle to communicate effectively with blind students.
>Combining printing with embossing can help bridge that gap,
>and ViewPlus is betting the PIA will fill that niche in the
>marketplace.
>
>"It serves a need in this industry that's never really been
>properly served," Sanders said.
>
>ViewPlus hopes to sell 100 to 200 PIAs this year.
>
>"That sounds like a small number, but in the Braille market,
>that's huge," Sanders said.
>
>Huge is right ? ViewPlus has sold just under 200 Pro
>Embossers to date.
>
>But the PIA, which ViewPlus has been demonstrating at
>assistive technology expos, is already generating a fair
>amount of buzz, with $50,000 in orders booked in advance of
>next week's target launch date. Sanders is hoping the add-on
>will prove so popular it will boost sales of the embosser.
>
>"I think this will sell a lot more Pros," he said. "No 
one
>solves the ink and Braille problem like we do, and that's
>the biggest problem out there."
>
>If Sanders is right, Gardner says, the rapid growth of
>ViewPlus can continue.
>
>"As the company's revenues grow, we can expand, put more
>marketing people in the field and sell more products," he
>said. "I wouldn't be surprised if this time next year we
>have 50 employees."
>
>Bennett Hall is the business editor for the Gazette-Times.
>He can be reached at 758-9529 or bennett.hall@xxxxxxxx
>
>
>
>
>Posted on Wed, Feb. 23, 2005
>
>
>Small hands money
>
>  Auctions for children's art prove to be
>profitable   fund-raisers
>
>  By ANN SPIVAK
>
>  The Kansas City Star
>
>
>  Sara Hodes thought      she was gazing at an Impressionist
>painting       at an art auction. But a closer look
>revealed  hundreds of tiny                children's
>fingerprints, including her son's,     filling the canvas
>to  create a church and sky.
>
>"I just couldn't resist it," said
>Hodes, who paid $2,000 for the small painting     after a
>bidding war with other parents
>at the recent auction for Visitation School in Kansas  City.
>
>   "I didn't go to the auction intending
>to                     do this, but that painting was
>so                      special,” she said.
>“It's one of my                      most precious
>keepsakes. It hangs in the                      kitchen, and
>my son, Billy, knows
>exactly where                      his fingerprints are
>— next to the bell                      tower and over
>near the sky.”
>
>   Whether it's a painting with
>fingerprints, a  ceramic vase with hand prints or
>self-portraits  on tiles around a mirror, children's
>artwork is the hottest thing going as schools and
>other   children's organizations look for new
>ways to raise money at their annual
>fund-raisers.
>
>  Across the Kansas City area, art
>teachers at  schools and organizations such as
>Mattie  Rhodes and Accessible Arts make it a
>priority to help students create pieces that they hope will
>  bring hundreds, if not thousands, of
>dollars back to the organizations.
>
>                      Diane Blanck, who headed the Visitation
>auction, knows the value of kids' art. This school year
>                      she had every grade working on
>projects. “We've done this for a long time, but there
>are
>                      definitely more this year because it's
>what all the parents want,” she said. “The
>                      reasoning is that parents want things
>that are created by their own children.”
>
>                      A second but larger painting of the
>church made by second-graders, Blanck said, went for more
>                      than $5,000. A third painting of the
>same church went for about $2,000. The entire auction
>                      raised about $100,000, and about 15
>percent of that was from kids' artworks.
>
>                      And would you pay $3,200 for a mirror
>that cost about $75 to make? Parents at Highlawn
>                      Montessori School in Prairie Village
>did at their annual auction earlier this month.
>
>                      “We got on a roll,” said
>Julana Harper-Sachs, an auction co-chairwoman, adding
>                      that the art from the live auction
>brought in about $7,000, or a fifth of the live auction
>total.
>
>                      “Several couples went in together
>and donated the mirror back to the classroom,”
>                      she said. “It's a nice tribute,
>and everyone gets to enjoy it.”
>
>                      While kindergartners stick to the
>basics, such as handprints and painting, older students are
>                      making silk scarves, learning to draw
>Chinese letters on placemats and using tiles to turn
>                      bowling balls into garden gazing balls.
>
>                      “This stuff goes for big
>money,” said Susan Gold, owner of the Mosaic Shop in
>                      Kansas City. About twice a week, she's
>helping schools with their projects. The past two years,
>                      she has seen projects for auctions
>about double, she said.
>
>                      “It's really unbelievable,”
>Gold said. “One woman working on a mirror was
>                      quite the entrepreneur. She picked out
>the four kids whose parents she thought would bid the
>                      most, and put their children's tiles at
>the top.”
>
>                      Two trains of thought dominate this new
>niche of fund-raising — either to help children
>                      create artwork that pulls at parents'
>heartstrings, such as a quilt where each child in the class
>                      decorates a square and signs it; or to
>have students create pieces that are functional and look
>                      professional, such as a set of holiday
>coffee mugs.
>
>                      “You want someone to say,
>‘Oh, that's a cool plate,' or ‘Isn't that a
>pretty
>                      vase?' ” said Sara Thompson,
>owner of Ceramic Café in Leawood. “You don't want
>                      them to say, ‘Oh, that's kid
>art.' ”
>
>                      The flipside is the mask that Donna and
>Bill Byers recently bought for $50 from the Accessible
>                      Arts auction. They were just looking
>around at all the pieces for sale when they saw a clay mask
>                      created by a young man who has been
>blind since birth.
>
>                      “We both got tears in our
>eyes,” Donna Byers said. “To think that someone
>                      who had never physically seen a face
>created this lovely piece was just amazing to us. It tugged
>                      at our hearts.”
>
>                      Gene Bouldin, who started the Kid's Art
>Project in Seattle two years ago, said he's overwhelmed
>                      with requests to turn children's art
>pieces into posters and collages for auctions. “It's
>                      auction season right now, and I'm
>swamped,” he said, adding that he'll create a collage
>                      for about $180 that parents then turn
>around and spend thousands on at an auction.
>
>                      The beauty of this type of fund-raising
>is that it's a perfect example of capitalism at work,
>                      Bouldin said. The cost to produce
>children's art is relatively low (free labor, help from
>parents
>                      and teachers and usually donated items
>or supplies at a discount); and the product sells for
>                      often 20 times its cost.
>
>                      “You'll get a group of 20
>families at an auction trying to outbid each other,”
>Bouldin
>                      said. “Even if only two or three
>families really want it, they'll bid the price up. And of
>                      course it's all for charity; it has
>nothing to do with the value of the art.”
>
>                      Chuck Robinson with Maverick Charity
>Auctions was the auctioneer at the Highlawn Montessori
>                      auction. He said it's amazing “to
>be up there and witnessing this.”
>
>                      “I remember a bug cabinet, a
>cabinet you put little jars of bugs in, that went for $5,500
>                      because kids made it,” Robinson
>said. “Or I'll get two parents bidding whose kids'
>                      names are side by side on a piece of
>art, and there's no stopping them.”
>
>                      He said the items made by younger
>students, say preschool through third grade, bring in the
>                      biggest bucks. “Older kid stuff,
>it's just not so cute anymore,” he said.
>
>                      At Mattie Rhodes, art center director
>Jenny Mendez is gearing up for the annual children's art
>                      exhibit March 4, which features mostly
>paintings and collages created by children in the
>                      after-school program.
>
>                      Not only will their work be for sale,
>but this year Mendez decided to set a few pieces aside for a
>                      live auction. “Last year, we
>raised $2,000,” she said. “This year, we're
>                      hoping to double that.”
>
>                      And what do the children get out of all
>this? “The children take great pride in raising funds
>                      for their school,” Blanck said.
>“The key, key message I think is to teach kids early
>                      to do their share.”
>
>                      Mendez agreed. “The whole focus
>is teaching kids to give back and the importance of
>                      that.”
>
>                      Kit Bardwell, program director at
>Accessible Arts, a Kansas City agency that champions the
>arts
>                      for children with disabilities, said
>this was the first time the agency added children's art to
>its
>                      annual auction. Two guitars, decorated
>by low-vision students, sold for $100 each. And half of
>                      that money went back to the students,
>who are planning a field trip with their profits.
>
>                      “One of my big soap boxes is that
>it's the process that's important, not the end
>                      product,” Bardwell said, adding
>that a child's attachment to a piece of artwork is much
>                      less than you might think.
>
>                      “Everyone pushes the end product,
>even the art teachers, but my belief is that it's the
>                      process that's important to the
>children,” Bardwell said. “For example, if they
>make
>                      a pot on the wheel, they're not begging
>me to glaze them and take them home. They just want
>                      to throw the next piece of clay on the
>wheel and get started again.”
>
>                      Patty Baker, art teacher at Briarwood
>Elementary in Prairie Village, worked with older students
>                      on projects for the auction. A framed
>tapestry made out of old T-shirt pieces by fourth-graders
>                      fetched $500 at the recent auction, and
>the large serving bowl with leaf imprints sold for $450.
>
>                      “I don't see the harm in
>it,” she said. “Kids don't seem to mind helping
>out
>                      their school. When the bowl sold, and
>they were asked to make two more bowls because other
>                      parents wanted them, they were excited
>that people valued what they did.”
>
>                      Her criteria is that the project has to
>be something all the kids can participate in, no matter what
>                      their skill level, and that together
>they can create one piece of art. “I really want this
>to
>                      be art,” Baker said.
>
>                      Bardwell added that it's refreshing to
>go to an art auction and be able to afford a piece.
>                      “People may not be able to afford
>a $5,000 or $10,000 painting, but if the opening bid on
>                      a children's piece is $20 or $50, they
>can support the organization in that way.”
>
>                      To reach Ann Spivak, Kansas City People
>editor, call (816) 234-4391 or send e-mail to
>                      aspivak@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>                      Top 10 kid art auction items
>
>                      ? Mosaic and tile mirrors
>
>                      ? Ceramic platters
>
>                      ? Dishes, mugs
>
>                      ? Benches and tables
>
>                      ? Pillows
>
>                      ? Steppingstones
>
>                      ? Birdbaths
>
>                      ? Original paintings
>
>                      ? Wine racks
>
>                      ? Tables with logos
>
>                      Source: Mosaic Shop, Ceramic Cafe
>
>                      Kid art auctions
>
>                      Check with your school or social
>service agency, or call to inquire about these upcoming
>                      auctions:
>
>                      ? Saturday: Global Montessori to
>benefit the school, (816) 561-4533
>
>                      ? Saturday: Corinth Elementary to
>benefit the school, (913) 901-0110
>
>                      ? March 4: Mattie Rhodes Children's Art
>Auction and Sale to benefit children's art programs,
>                      (816) 221-2349
>
>                      ? April 2: St. Elizabeth School to
>benefit the school, (816) 300-0808
>
>                      ? April 2: St. Peter's School to
>benefit the school, (816) 523-4899
>
>                      ? April 16: Barstow School to benefit
>the school, (816) 277-0410
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