[Art_beyond_sight_learning_tools] excerpts from 2 articles

[Lisa Yayla]

Two excerpts; one artist and one art appreciater.

http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/04/10/22/ae_sumi001.cfm
Art of sumi painting goes on  exhibit Artist and poet
Priscilla Maynard's works will be  displayed in Edmonds.

Herald staff
A display of sumi paintings by Priscilla Maynard is on view
this  month at the Anderson Center in downtown Edmonds.
The works are shown in two locations in the center, and the
exhibit is jointly sponsored by the Edmonds
Arts Festival Foundation and the Edmonds Arts Commission.

Sumi painting uses black ink on white paper to create
delicate designs.

Maynard, who is also a poet, has a remarkable personal
story. Although nearly blind, she continues to create sumi
paintings through her sense of touch and her long
familiarity with the process. The Bothell resident is one of
the foremost sumi artists in the Northwest, teaches, has won
numerous awards and is represented by the Foster/White
Gallery in Seattle.

The Anderson Center, 700 Main St., is open Monday-Saturday.


http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041022/DATELINE04/41021010/1159/dateline
(excerpt from an article)
Feel it to believe it
The devil’s pitchfork was the first part of artist Chris
Hubbard’s “Heaven and Hell Car” that David Bouchard, a 7th
grader from Starkville, Miss. felt.  Blind since birth,
Bouchard took in all he could of the “art car, “asking
Hubbard questions as he nestled his fingers in the intricate
carvings of angels and devils carved or formed from findings
and attached to the vehicle. “The beads – what do they
represent,” Bouchard asked.Hubbard told Bouchard the beads
represented rosary beads that formed a divider between the
“heaven” work on the car’s top and the “hell” work on its
bottom.  Hubbard, a returning folk artist at Kentuck, works
primarily as a carver and his art reflects religious ideas
about heaven and hell.Bouchard’s mother, Wingfield Bouchard,
said her son had been feeling artwork all day, as well as
playing instruments in the festival’s musical petting zoo
and listening to the stories of Kathryn Tucker Windham, a
storyteller famous for her ghost stories and tales of
growing up in the South.Bouchard also made a T-shirt and a
cast tile at the sites of other demonstrating artists. Art,
it seems, is not limited to artists at Kentuck