[accessibleimage] Touching art for the visually impaired on Rhodes
- From: Lisa Yayla <fnugg@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:33:56 +0200
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*The innovative program “Touching Art” will be the State Museum of
Contemporary Art’s participation in the 1st Mediterranean Printmaking
Triennale, that will take place in Rhodes from August 27 to November 2.*
*“Touching Art”* is an international program which helps blind and
visually impaired people to “feel” prints that have been rendered in
relief form. That means that the outlines of the figures have been done
in carton and other materials that can convey the best possible feeling
of the different colors, surfaces, shapes and techniques of each artist.
The captions accompanying the works are in Braille.
The initiative is part of an international program of museums worldwide,
called *“Art Beyond Sight”.* This is the third time that *Thessaloniki’s
State Museum of Contemporary Art* is adopting it. The Museum will
participate in the *Triennale’s tribute to Greek printmaking at the
Rhodes Municipal* *Gallery,* with 12 works in relief form that have been
selected by the Association of Greek Printmakers. They are works by
Odysseas Annitsakis, Giorgos Grekas, Dimitra Siaterli, Yiannis
Stefanakis and others.
The program has been jointly organized with the Ilios Foundation for the
Protection of the Blind in Northern Greece and the Central Macedonian
Union of the Panhellenic Association of the Visually Impaired.
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