[Art_beyond_sight_learning_tools] Grafitti,gallery,exhibition

[Lisa Yayla]

Hi,
Few more article, excerpts and links. One that I thought was very 
interesting is about a Spanish artist, SpY and Braille graffiti.
Of the subject, but on the website of the artist he shows a Rubik cube 
for lazy people, it is all in one color. But it got me wondering has 
anyone put Braille labels on a Rubik cube? Googled a bit a found a touch 
Rubik cube using different textures 
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/rubiks-cube-for-the-blind-155779.php
Best,
Lisa

from a blog
Ever since I wrote an article on braille 
<http://www.spurgeonworld.com/blog/archives/2007/02/the_return_of_b.html>, 
I've been discovering all sorts of weird and interesting applications of 
braille text. Case in point...this work 
<http://www.spy.org.es/galeria.php?idCategoria=2&pag=49> by the Spanish 
artist known as SpY. Using a braille label maker, SpY creates messages 
and leaves them in places that you can't see, but that blind people can 
feel. He has a number of interesting art works that play with the bounds 
of urban graffiti on his website <http://www.spy.org.es/>.

http://www.spurgeonworld.com/blog/archives/2007/02/graffitti_for_b.html
http://www.spy.org.es/galeria.php?idCategoria=2&pag=51
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PAM tour for the blind and partially sighted: A verbal and tactile 
understanding of objects on display in "The Quest for Immortality: 
Treasures of Ancient Egypt" exhibition. 9 a.m. Sat. Portland Art Museum, 
Hoffman entrance, 1219 S.W. Park Ave.; $10 members, $20 non-members. $9 
children; 226-0973.

http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1170888910184250.xml&coll=7

article excerpt
http://verdeindependent.1upsoftware.com/main.asp?SectionID=19&SubSectionID=23&ArticleID=21210&TM=25322.28
The light behind blind eyes

Mia is curious and fascinated with her world. Sometimes she is more 
aware of things than are the sighted people around her. Her drawings and 
pictures show how accurate her impressions of the world really are. She 
uses a pencil and paper to draw people, animals and landscape features.

"Mia likes to interpret things the way they seem to her," Paula says.

When Mia is coloring pictures with crayons she asks for specific colors 
-- yellow, blue or green. "I normally draw pictures of sky, sun and 
grass," she explains. "I know what colors they are. My sister doesn't 
like it when I ask her," Mia says, smiling. It seems like Mia is always 
smiling.

When asked if her other senses, such as hearing, are sharper than her 
sighted friends' are, Mia thinks a bit and starts to shake her head no. 
Then she smiles again. "I can hear my mom's cell phone ring when she 
sits on it," she says.

Clearly, some of her senses are sharper than those of most sighted 
people. During an exercise in independent living, Mia pushes a grocery 
cart through the aisles of Food City, mostly with only voice guidance 
from Paula. She parks the cart, walks away, turns a time or two and 
takes a product off the shelf. Then she walks directly back to

excerpt article
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200702170311.htm
*Soon, an Art Gallery for the 'less fortunate'*

New Delhi, Feb 17. (PTI): In the first of its kind, an art gallery 
exclusively for physically and mentally challenged children across the 
country would be set up in Delhi.

"Only the works of 'children with special needs' would be put up in the 
gallery. For the purpose, children across the country and even abroad 
would be included," says Dr Shyama Chona of 'Tamanna,' -- the NGO behind 
the project.

"The aim is to create opportunities for children with intellectual 
disability, multiple disability and autism to showcase their talents; to 
provide a platform where they can interact with the normal people," she 
adds.

Eminent artist Mannu Gupta would design the gallery.