[accessibleimage] drawing, exhibition

Hi,
Mostly articles about art. I was thinking some might wonder why I include short bits of articles because of a reference made - I thought some might be interested in all types of references made in the media, - these shape our attitudes -so that is why. 

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Lisa

December 20
The Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visually Impaired hosts an exhibit of art made by and for people who are blind or visually impaired. Artists Albert Schmeige and Jamie Landolt will be featured. This is until January fifteenth at 754 Williamson Street. Call 237-8111 for details. 
http://irkiosk.blogspot.com/2006/12/december-20.html

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/faithvalues/2003480498_glickman16m.html
"They happen whenever you build a sandcastle that you know the waves will soon wash away, whenever a blind artist picks up a brush to paint something he knows he will never see, and whenever people living in deep darkness hope for light. 


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Karnataka - Bangalore

`I want to touch the Vidhana Soudha and draw it'

Staff Reporter

Five visually challenged children exhibit their skills in drawing
Bangalore: Mountains are green. The sky is blue. The sun is yellow. There are even two birds to complete the perfect picture.
"Did you ever imagine that the blind could draw, madam?" Mahadevi, a visually challenged student from CSI Victoria School in Mysore, asked a pressperson, pointing to her drawing.
Displaying their ability to draw on a Monday afternoon for the press, five visually challenged children sat and drew mountains, trees, flags and flowers of different colours all by themselves. 

Training
Trained by an artist, Mustafa Khan, in what he calls "Pop Up Symbolism", these 10th standard students, Kavitha, Nagamani, Rachna, Sushma and Mahadevi, can now draw by touching objects to understand their shape and then using their fingers to recreate them from their imagination. "The children had to be taught to hold a pencil. They were used to punching holes for Braille," says Mr. Khan.
Preparing them mentally and continuously motivating them is important in the initial stages.
The children are first taught to be familiar with shapes such as triangles, rectangles and circles.
Then they are taught to identify crayon colours by associating certain shapes with the colours.
"It has been four years since I started working with these children," says Mr. Khan. Now, he teaches 16 students and is willing to teach more visually challenged children. 

"I can even provide literature on how to go about the process," he says.
"We did not think that we could draw big shapes when we started off," says Nagamani. "Now I want to touch the Vidhana Soudha and draw it," Mahadevi says. 

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2006121917040400.htm&date=2006/12/19/&prd=th&;

article

Image: Liquid, 'The Wolf'
Montreal (Ski Press)-An accomplished artist, a skater, and national snowboard champion. These are all virtues on Thomas Wolf’s resume. As an artist, his mediums are photography, acrylics, abstract prints and 3D renderings. He competes in Superpipe, Slopestyle and Boardercross. Amazing indeed. But what is even more amazing about Thomas Wolf is that he does all this despite being legally blind.
He was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa when he was 10, by age 25 he was deemed legally blind because of his narrow visual field and nightblindness. Wolf credits his wife Kimberly Nga, for inspiring him to reclaim his snowboarding habit in recent years
He says, “When Kimberly and I first met, she really wanted to try riding. We went boarding a couple of times, and she was hooked. Because this was a sport that we both loved and I had previously lost, she really encouraged me to push myself. I rode and practiced switch and using what vision I had more efficiently as she learned the basics. It was meant to be, so much so, that we spent our honeymoon at Whistler/Blackcomb for opening weekend.”
Wolf has not only reclaimed his passion for the sport, but has found Liquid Boardwear, Dragon Alliance, and Never Summer to sponsor him.
Last year at the USASA Nationals, Thomas dominated coming 1st in the Freestyle Men’s Adaptive Division. This included a gold in Boardercross, silver in slopestyle, and bronze in super pipe. He is focused to repeat his success.
Liquid Boardwear is super excited to have Thomas join the team. His positivity and creativity is truly inspiring. Words can not explain how amped we are to be supporting Thomas and his endeavors. He rocks. 

http://3w.skipressworld.com/news_detail.php?id=5239&languageId=1&regionId=1&section=news&type=features&mode=read&filter=&sort=


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TV show Little House on the Prarie
Portrait of Love (episode #7655)
News of a blind artist's exhibition moves the girl's natural mother to renew contact with her. 
http://www.meevee.com/program/programDetails.aspx?pid=405880590585531

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The printer would help ease Kayla's school workload. She currently uses a loaned, tractor-feed printer and relies on a school Braillist to convert her work.
The new printer, an Everest Braille Embosser, would allow Kayla to use regular paper and print on both sides. Kayla, a national Braille contest winner, hopes to be an art teacher, and the new printer would also print graphics, she said. 

http://www.salemnews.com/local/local_story_350103838?keyword=topstory

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Local film goes nationwide
By S. Derrickson Moore Sun-News reporter
Article Launched: 12/17/2006 01:00:00 AM MST
Click photo to enlargeLocal artist George Mendoza, who is legally blind, uses his... «1» LAS CRUCES — A documentary chronicling the life of award-winning blind artist, author and athlete George Mendoza of Las Cruces will be released nationally on PBS.
"Vision of the Soul: The George Mendoza Story," which was produced by KRWG-TV and premiered here Aug. 14, debuts nationwide on PBS stations this month.
"I understand that it is being released to 172 PBS stations and will be shown all over the country for the next four years," Mendoza said.
Mendoza became legally blind at age 15 when he was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition called fundus flavimaculatus. His central vision was totally obliterated, leaving him with narrow peripheral vision that is "about 20/400 at best" and is distorted with what he calls "kaleidoscope eyes."
But he went on to become an author, a motivational speaker, an athlete in international competitions and an artist who has exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the United States.
The film features interviews with friends, colleagues, art critics and Mendoza's mother, Cindy Huber, 78, also of Las Cruces.
In the works for more than a decade, the PBS documentary was produced by award-winning playwright and filmmaker Mark Medoff and directed by another 


award-winning local filmmaker, Rajeev Nimalakhandan.
Santa Fe filmmaker Jane Rosemont also contributed to the project. JD Jarvis was project manager.
"It's a very touching and entertaining tale about George's life," said Jarvis, KRWG-TV production manager. "George and I had talked about this project for years and it's very good. Rajeev did a great job shooting and editing it. It's being distributed by the National Educational Television Association."
Jarvis said more local broadcasts of the documentary are planned early in 2007, but air dates have not yet been scheduled.
"Vision of the Soul" is the second nationally distributed film about Mendoza. His life was the also focus of an ABC after-school special, "The George Mendoza Story."
It's been a big year for Mendoza. The University of New Mexico Press released a new edition of "Running Toward the Light, The George Mendoza Story" by William J. Buchanan.
"There has been some interest in making that book into a feature film, too," Mendoza said.
A national traveling exhibition of 32 of his paintings began at Colorado's Loveland Art Museum.
"The people in Colorado were great and one of my paintings is now in their permanent collection. The show is coming to the El Paso Art Museum for three months this spring. We're talking about the exhibit going to Baltimore, Cleveland, Santa Fe, California and New York. A decade of hard work is all coming together for me," Mendoza said.
He reports that he and his girlfriend, Yolanda Ortiz, are making a good recovery from a July 5 auto accident in which both suffered concussions and whiplash.
"It's changed the way I paint. I haven't picked up a paint brush since. Now, I'm painting with my fingers," he said.
In "Visions of the Soul," Mendoza discusses inspirational turning points in his life, including a trip to New Mexico's legendary healing mecca Chimayo, and an encounter "with a little girl named Debbie who was born blind, who had never seen the color green or the shape of a tree. ... She asked me a question: Can you tell me, what color is the wind?' That question just blew my mind because I was just losing my sight then. She woke up my creative sense by asking me that question."
He said he is now collaborating on a children's book called "What Color is the Wind?" that will feature his illustrations.
Mendoza served as director of New Mexico State University Disabled Student Programs and is a motivational speaker and teaches T'ai Chi.
He is also working with Enhanced Vision, a company that makes devices to help the visually impaired. The company's special digital camera helped him to get a clearer overview of his own paintings for the first time, he said. 

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:xCo_I1R5O_QJ:www.scsun-news.com/news/ci_4854966+%22Local+film+goes+nationwide%22+mendoza&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1

reference
In his A Day-Dream, Samuel Coleridge, English poet (1772-18340), says: "My eyes make pictures when they are blind". 
http://www.daijiworld.com/chan/exclusive_arch.asp?ex_id=508

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Brazil: Dolly Moreno - A Great Sculptress of the Americas

By Sol Biderman
Dolly Moreno is a beautiful tough woman who makes beautiful tough sculptures with remarkable textures - textures that even the blind can appreciate. A few years ago scores of blind children and adults attended an exhibit of Dolly‘s sculpture and came out enraptured with eyes sparkling, ecstatic with the feel, the texture, the stunning rich form of her compositions in bronze and steel and other metals which she alone cuts using a blowtorch and wearing overalls and protecting her blond hair and blue eyes with a steelworker‘s mask. 
http://www.gringoes.com/articles.asp?ID_Noticia=1614

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Yuo Klun graduated from the University of Minnesota with a major in interior design and a minor in art history. While working her first design job out of college, she was diagnosed with optic neuritis and lost vision in both eyes. She went through rehabilitation and adapted to her vision loss.
Yuo KlunYuo is married and has a 3-year-old son. She is now back in the design field, working in fixture development for Target. 

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/12/11/loopblind/

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