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

[Lisa Yayla]

Hi,
A few articles.
Regards,
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
/

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
**
*****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