[Art_beyond_sight_learning_tools] book review, David Tineo, TacTiles, Monet

[Lisa Yayla]

links
Recipient: An honor that 'came out of the blue'
http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061013/NEWS01/610130305/1008
Minding the Brain
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19510

Monet
http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article?id=244508

David Tineo articles
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/specialreports/112438
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/specialreports/125946
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/specialreports/117622
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/specialreports/151208
Fashion award excerpt
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4920960.stm
Articles

Minding the Brain
By John R. Searle book review of
Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey
John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of 
California, Berkeley.

excerpt
According to Humphrey, the audience, whom he told to look at the red 
screen, did not consciously perceive the screen at all. They had 
conscious red sensations, but these were not sensations of the screen. 
As he tells us, the "red" sensations experienced by his audience were 
directed at something entirely within their bodies; the sensations were 
of events occurring in their eyes.

I said the arguments for these remarkable views were complex, but the 
heart of Humphrey's hypothesis concerns the distinction between 
sensation and perception. He has several arguments to support this, but 
the most important is about "blindsight." There are patients whose sight 
is impaired by brain damage in such a way that though they can see most 
of the visual field, they are blind in one part. For example, in a 
famous case a patient D.B. was blind in the lower left quadrant of his 
visual field.[3] (If the part of the world you can see at any moment is 
like a round clock face, D.B. was blind between roughly six o'clock and 
nine o'clock.) But in that quadrant D.B. could, to his surprise, detect 
the presence of certain sorts of stimuli. In one of many experiments he 
correctly "guessed" the presence of an X or an O in the blind part of 
his visual field. He could even guess the presence of colors in the 
blind area. Furthermore, Humphrey once had an experimental cat, Helen, 
who was totally blind because Visual Area 1 of her visual cortex had 
been removed, but she could still make her way around the room and even 
pick up crumbs off the floor.


excerpt

Like Hoffman, by simply doing something she enjoys, Joyce Acton began 
helping others and earned the Citizen of the Year Award.

An artist who is legally blind, she started painting when she lived in 
Florida. After moving to Richmond, she wanted to get involved with other 
artists with disabilities and ended up founding the Artists with 
Disabilities of East Central Indiana. The group is having an art 
festival Oct. 28.

Upcoming events -- The Artists with Disabilities of East Central Indiana 
group will have its initial October Arts Festival Celebrating Diversity 
from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 28 at Charlie's Coffee Bar and Gallery, 401 N. 
10th St. in Richmond. Artists with disabilities are invited to 
participate. There is no booth rental charge, but space requests should 
be made by calling Joyce Acton at (765) 962-1070 or Eldonna Deaver at 
(765) 939-9226.

excerpt Monet
In 1907 Monet began having eyesight problems, and by 1922, he was almost 
blind. His sight improved after a cataract operation, and he reworked 
some of his water lily canvases. In 1926 Monet was still painting but he 
suffered from lung problems. He painted up to two weeks before dying on 
Dec. 5 at age 86.


excerpt
Published: 10.15.2006
Making murals with help from his friends
By Tom Beal
ARIZONA DAILY STAR Articles in this series

Part 1: As the light fades

Part 2: Blindness gags help keep muralist going

Part 3: Art's 'eagle' renews his murals and his spirit

Part 4: Making murals with help from his friends

Tucson muralist David Tineo is going back to the wall next month, 
supervising his first outdoor mural since his eyesight started 
deteriorating two years ago.
At first glance, the blank wall on North Linda Avenue in Menlo Park 
seems an odd canvas for a mural in the Chicano tradition. It stands 
behind a California-style bungalow on a street of similar homes, built 
in the 1920s on subdivided farm land along the Santa Cruz River west of 
Downtown. When the subdivision was created, Mexican-Americans were 
excluded from living there.
Over time, though, Menlo Park became "the pre-eminent Mexican-American 
neighborhood in Tucson," said Mac Hudson, president of the Menlo Park 
Neighborhood Association.
A mural celebrating the neighborhood's past and present is a perfect 
complement to its plans to restore the crumbling bungalow and adapt it 
to public use, Hudson said.
Just across Congress Street to the south, land is being leveled for the 
Rio Nuevo project, which will include reconstructions of Tucson's 
earliest buildings and exhibits that celebrate the many cultures that 
built the city. The Linda Avenue project will bring that history into 
the present, Hudson said.
Tineo won't be painting the mural himself. He will have a crew of 36 
youngsters from Menlo Park Elementary and Maxwell Middle schools, 
together with their individual mentors, University of Arizona students 
in a Chicanos por la Causa after-school program.
"The kids are going to be my eyes now," Tineo said at a community 
gathering to bless the project. "It's up to the kids to bring this 
vision to life — their vision, our vision, the community's vision."
Tineo will also have professional help from his colleagues at Raices 
Taller, a cooperative art gallery that Tineo and others created to 
promote Hispanic art.
Tineo, Menlo Park's most celebrated artist, was always first choice for 
the project, even though he had decided to give up outdoor work, said 
Hudson. "It was pretty clear, with David's eyesight getting so bad that 
we had to include others, like Raices Taller," said Hudson.
"This is right up our alley," said John Salgado of Raices Taller, who 
has had preliminary discussions with Menlo Park about relocating the 
gallery to the Linda Avenue house.
Fall softer after harsh summer
It's shaping up to be a good fall for Tineo. The softer sunlight is 
easier on his eyes, and the promise of a satisfying mural project in his 
own neighborhood is rewarding.
Summer was difficult at times for Tineo, the prolific muralist whose 
vision and ability to live his art are being eroded by macular 
degeneration.
Tineo has lost most of his central vision. Some mornings he can paint 
details on the smaller canvases he is preparing for a Día de los Muertos 
show at Raices Taller. On other mornings, the detail work is difficult 
and he paints on larger canvasses, relying on imagination and muscle 
memory to guide his brush strokes.
On some mornings he runs up nearby "A" Mountain and attends yoga classes 
at Pima Community College in an effort to keep his stress level down. He 
is certain that if he can stabilize his emotions and exercise his body, 
his eyes will not continue their downward slide.
Other days are more stressful. He worries about his mom, recently 
hospitalized for her diabetes after David found her nearly comatose in 
their Menlo Park home, or he argues with his patrons.

excerpt

The awards will also honour two individuals being inducted into the 
Scottish Fashion Awards Hall of Fame. .... The second is photographer 
Albert Watson, whose images have appeared on more than 250 Vogue covers.

Though blind in one eye, Albert studied graphic design at the College of 
Art in Dundee and film at the Royal College of Art in London.


Excerpt:
Art Institute gives blind a chance to 'see' art
Author: Andrew Herrmann The Chicago Sun-Times
Date: April 20, 2006
Publication: Chicago Sun-Times (IL)


Do Not Touch is the general rule of thumb in art museums. Which, for the 
blind, pretty much leaves them out of the art museum experience. But 
beginning today, the Art Institute of Chicago is offering the sightless 
and vision-impaired the opportunity to "see," through touching, replicas 
of a few of its most popular works.

The Michigan Avenue museum has re-created a handful of its art on 
portable, machine-etched plastic, which will help the blind to imagine 
what they...

TacTiles Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/visitor_info/access.html#escorts
Touch Gallery
http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/touch.html