[accessibleimage] Re: Touching art for the visually impaired on Rhodes
- From: Noreen Grice <ngrice@xxxxxxx>
- To: accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:19:24 -0400
Just as a follow up to Lisa's posting...I was in Athens Greece for a
conference last fall and visited the Tactile Museum there. It's hidden
in a neighborhood and it took a skilled local taxi driver to find it but
I thought it was great and even better than the National Museum (where
docents and security guards constantly yelled "no touching - no flash
pictures!"
At the Tactile Museum, everything is available to touch and they have
reproductions of the works from the National Gallery.. it is an
interesting place for both sighted and visually impaired visitors.
If you are in the Athens area, I strongly urge you to visit the Tactile
Museum...I was there for almost 2 hours with a wonderful guide who
pointed out things I missed visually..... it was a terrific experience!
- Noreen Grice
Lisa Yayla wrote:
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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.
http://www.homeboy.gr/?p=1506
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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.
http://www.homeboy.gr/?p=1506