[Art_beyond_sight_learning_tools] BLIND AT THE MUSEUM

[Lisa Yayla]

Hi,
A talk and exhibition at Berkeley. Sounds like it will be
very interesting. I liked the question they ask "..what does
visual impairment bring to the visual arts and museum
practice?"
Best,
Lisa


http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/calendar/index.html 

WED JAN 26 2005
Exhibition Opens 


THU JAN 27 2005, 12:15
Curators' Talk, Beth Dungan and Katherine Sherwood 
Theater Gallery 

What does it mean to see? And what does visual impairment
bring to the visual arts and museum practice? The museum
kicks off a series of gallery talks for Blind at the Museum
with this introductory presentation by the exhibition's
co-curators: Katherine Sherwood, award-winning painter and
professor in UC Berkeley's Art Practice Department, and Beth
Dungan, art historian and postdoctoral fellow at the Center
for Medicine, the Humanities, and Law. 

With reference to artworks in the exhibition, the curators
will address topics of blindness, visual impairment, and
viewership, and the artistic strategies involved in
highlighting these issues both literally and metaphorically. 

Katherine Sherwood and Beth Dungan are co-instructors of a
spring course at UC Berkeley, titled Art, Medicine and
Disability, which will address the exhibit and a related
conference upcoming in March.