[Art_beyond_sight_learning_tools] Castle Park Arts Centre's Touching Display

[Shelley L. Rhodes]

Growing up in the eighties and being crazy about art, I wish, that there 
were tactile museums.  Sigh, but now their are, and I appreciate them even 
more because I can't see as well as I did back then.


    AP Worldstream
Friday, January 07, 2005

Castle Park Arts Centre's Touching Display

CASTLE Park Arts Centre in Frod-sham now has a corner in its Jim Cox Gallery 
devoted to exhibits which can be explored with touch: Art with Feeling.

This new feature will contain works of art accessible to visually impaired 
visitors to the centre and so enrich their experience. There is also a 
tactile map of the building available.

Few galleries have works of art that can be freely explored by touch and 
Castle Park Arts Centre is probably the first small gallery in the country 
to be presenting a changing exhibition of tactile art. Each item on display 
will be described in large print and Braille formats.

This month, the centre is mounting an exhibition of work by the pupils of 
Sir John Deane's College in Northwich, and the students will show a 
specifically designed tactile work.

Future exhibits this year will include a sculpture by Tony Evans, a lace 
pillow set up by the North Cheshire Lace-makers' Group so that everyone can 
try their hand at bobbin lace making, and a tactile textured collage by Liz 
Rowley.

More information about this ground-breaking addition to the attractions of 
Castle Park Arts Centre can be supplied by the centre.


http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/entertainment/newsandreviews/tm_objectid=15050816%26method=full%26siteid=50020%26headline=touching%2ddisplay-name_page.html




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