[accessibleimage] some articles - museum, artist, audio description, fiber artist

Hi,
A few articles.
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Lisa

link Guy Cobb
http://www.guycobb.com/blind.htm
http://www.guycobb.com/index22.htm


WIS News 10, South Carolina USA
Saturday, April 01, 2006

Columbia Museum of Art invites blind, dyslexic children

By Chantelle Janelle

(Columbia) April 1, 2006 - For a group of children at the Columbia Museum of Art Saturday, their disabilities did not keep them from enjoying the arts.

The museum sponsored the program "Children's Creative Ticket." It was a day of art activities specially made for blind and dyslexic children.

Organizers said the day was a chance to appreciate the gifts that everyone has to offer. Pam Bailey of the Center for the Arts says, "And we really wanted everyone to know that South Carolina is a very artistic state and we recognize arts manuals for the blind community and dyslexic as well as the gifted students who are at the Palmetto Center for the arts, as well as all musicians and all disciplines. South Carolina is a talented state and we want to celebrate that."

The Commission for the Blind and the Palmetto Center for the Arts also took part.

Columbia Museum of Art www.colmusart.org


http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4713007




Christian Brothers University </memphis/Location.html?Location=oid%3A11193> - Ross Gallery in the Plough Library, 650 East Parkway South, 321-3000. Artist-in-Residence Exhibition. new work by CBU's artist-in-residence Taga Francis Nuwagaba of Africa. Through April 20. "Art for the Blind and Sighted". work by Guy Cobb. Through May 12. 


http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Events?StartDate=2006-03-30&EventCategory=oid%3A11623



http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=65370dc3c0a83ba0

Blind painter’s abstract work on exhibit


Published March 12, 2006

LEAGUE CITY — Abstract art allows viewers to see in paintings what their inner eye perceives. For Eric Peterson, that eye is the one that works the best.

“Once I take my paints, I literally know what to use and when to use them,” he said. “I almost go into a trance.”

Peterson, born legally blind and living with a condition called retinitis pigmentosa, says that art is less about the relationship between the eye and the brain and more about what the heart tells the soul.


including this because it makes reference to audio description in one of the essays by the author
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011902693.html
John D’Agata's /Halls of Fame

excerpt from article
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One of the other list-essays, "Martha Graham, Audio Description Of," includes an anecdote about the night D'Agata described a dance performance to the blind. His job was to report—just the facts—what it looked like. "Which means I'm their eyes, the head usher reminds me," he writes, "but not their interpreter. Which means words like /scary/ and /boring/ and /like/ and /therefore/ are out of the question. And the same goes for /which reminds me of/, though it's what I'm thinking, can't stop thinking of." D'Agata treats the reader this way, like a blind person. He doesn't interpret his adventures or organize them into narratives. He kind of points around America, sentence by sentence, and the reader comes away feeling like something very interesting happened, just not sure what.



Volin fiber artist to hold residency in Aberdeen
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*****Will conduct workshops for students at School for Blind and Visually Impaired*

From staff reports

Fiber artist Grete Bodogaard of Volin will conduct workshops for students at the South Dakota School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, as part of the South Dakota Arts Council's Artists in School and Communities Program.

Bodogaard will work with various grade levels during her residency from March 27-31.

Bodogaard immigrated to the United States in 1969. Her weavings have been commissioned throughout the Midwest, including St. Michael's Church in Sioux Falls and the Rapid City Regional Hospital. Her exhibitions include "A Fine Line," a touring exhibition to the Portland (Ore.) Center for the Arts and the Center for Tapestry Art in New York; The Human Weft at the American Renaissance Gallery in Portland; "Beyond the Spill," an environmental exhibit at the Alaska Fine Arts Center in Anchorage, Alaska; "Norwegians in America" in Hamar, Norway; and the "World Weavers Wall" at the Grypbon Gallery in Melbourne, Australia.

Bodogaard's residencies cover all stages in the spinning, dyeing with natural dyes, design and weaving of a wide range of natural fibers. Students may create individual designs or a class project that can be displayed in the school.

Bodogaard is a recipient of the 2002 South Dakota Governor's Award for Creative Achievement. Her exhibition, "Seige Damer," or flexible women, with collage artist Eva Isaksen, toured South Dakota during 2003.

The program is sponsored by the South Dakota School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, with support provided by the South Dakota Arts Council. Funds come from the State of South Dakota, through the Department of Tourism and State Development, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

For more information, call Sandra Payne at (605) 626-2580.

http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/14111329.htm




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