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In Touch with Art
An International Conference on Art, Museums and Visual Impairment

By St Dunstan’s, hosted by The V&A, in partnership with Goldsmiths College, University of London

28th & 29th November 2007 V&A, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL

The first collaboration between St Dunstan’s, The V&A and Goldsmiths College, In Touch With Art will investigate methods of teaching art to people with visual impairment, explore the experiences of practising artists with visual impairment, and identify how people with visual impairment engage and interact with visual art in gallery and museum environments.

The two-day conference will give delegates the opportunity to find out about models of best practice for the interpretation of the visual arts for a visually impaired audience. It will also look at the international perspective on this area, together with psychological processing and cognition through the senses, and explore the personal, professional, physical and psychological experiences of artists, educators, and visitors with visual impairment.


This conference will be particular interest to:

Professionals working within art galleries, museums, arts organisations, as education officers, social inclusion officers, training and development officers, curators, directors, exhibitors.
Practising artists and makers who are visually impaired or work with visually impaired people.
Professionals working within education and rehabilitation, within the fields of art, craft, design, psychology, from secondary through to higher education level.
Community arts organisations, volunteer organisations, youth services, charities such as Age Concern, RNIB, The National Federation for the Blind, National Federation of Families with Visually Impaired Children, Action for the Blind.
Producers of materials and resources used by visually impaired audiences, galleries, museums, arts organisations.
Gallery and museum visitors who are or have an interest in visual impairment.
The programme and booking information is now available on this website. If you would like to register simply download the booking forms below or contact the conference organisers, SAM (Sussex Arts Marketing):

E: helen.charlton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

T: 0044 (0)1273 882112

A: SAM (Sussex Arts Marketing Ltd.) 11b Dyke Road Mews, 74 Dyke Road, Brighton, BN1 3JD

http://www.st-dunstans.org.uk/pages/news_item.asp?i_ToolbarID=1&i_PageID=1014

Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter
Oslo Norway
lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx

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