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Art Beyond Sight Educators Discussion Group
Educators Discussion Topic Leaders
Art Beyond Sight Museums Discussion Group
Museum Discussion Topic Leaders
Art Beyond Sight Community and Advocacy Discussion Group and Social Action Projects
Advocacy Discussion Topic Leaders
Art Beyond Sight Theory and Research Discussion Group
Research Discussion Topic Leaders
Art Beyond Sight Learning Tools Discussion Group
Learning Tools Discussion Topic Leaders
Art Beyond Sight Educators Discussion Group
- Integrate the cultural arts into the fabric of education. Enable students' full intellectual access to our shared culture by giving them the opportunity to examine various periods in art history, to respond to and analyze works of art, as well as to connect different artworks to each other and to other aspects of human endeavor and thought.
- Cultivate students' interest in tactile graphics and map-reading skills. Use the visual arts to teach critical thinking skills, tactile exploration skills, and language skills. Cultural arts can be an important catalyst for teaching the core curricula (braille skills, reading, writing, social studies, science, and math).
- Share teaching materials, lesson plans, tips, and work on conference panels and presentations to effect change in policy and public awareness.
- Find out how to submit your students' art works for an exhibit or award.
- Collaborate on shared in-service trainings, and professional development presentations at national conferences
Moderated by Mary Ann Siller, American Foundation for the Blind, TX, and Stuart Wittenstein, California School for the Blind
Educators Discussion Topic Leaders
School Administration
Stuart Wittenstein, California School for the Blind
Primary and Secondary Schools Art Educators
Rocky Tomascoff, Perkins School for the Blind
General Educators of Children with Multiple Disabilities
Betsy Armstrong, Educational Vision Services (EVS), NYC Dept. of Education
Cheryl Stewart, Overbrook School for the Blind
General Educators, Elementary Through Junior High
Pam Ranelli, Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority
Pearl Rosen, Independent Consultant
Art Therapists
Jennifer Drower, New York University
Art Education for Skill Development
Mary Jean Sanspree, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Pamela Wheelock, Educational Vision Services (EVS), NYC Dept. of Education
College/University Lecturers in Art History
Karen Frimkess Wolff, Braille Institute of America
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Art Beyond Sight Museums Discussion Group
- Assist museums to create start-up programs using even limited resources. Learn how to build active advisory boards, provide quality low-cost training to staff, docents, and volunteers, and help our community survive budget cuts and staff turn-over.
- Make programs last by strengthening ties with the local blindness community. Diversify the staff by creating opportunities for blind people. Further develop existing programs and skills through on-line brainstorming and partnering with colleagues and/or advisors who are blind and visually impaired.
- Brainstorm about standardizing guidelines for programmatic ADA compliance. Effect change in policy and public awareness.
- Participate in annual trainings, conference presentations and panels, organized by members of this discussion group.
Moderated by Hope McMath, Cummer Museum of Art, and Caro Howell, formerly of Tate Modern
Museum Discussion Topic Leaders
Sensitivity and Awareness Training
Harold Snider, National Federation of the Blind
Barry Ginley, Victoria and Albert Museum
Anna Fairclough, Vision Australia Foundation
Learning Tools for Museum Programs (touch tour, verbal description, tactile diagrams etc) and Accessibility Resources (accessible web and labels, audio guides, alternative formats etc.)
Francesca Rosenberg, The Museum of Modern Art
Caro Howell, formerly of Tate Modern
Conceptualizing Museum Programs
Sandra Eastwood, formerly of Iziko: South African National Gallery
Nurit Neustadt, Consultation and Rehabilitation Services (Israel)
Advisory Board
Sy Hoffman, Birmingham Museum of Art
Open House, Special Event
Hope McMath, Cummer Museum of Art
Museum and School Partnerships
Hannah Goodwin, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Mickie Silverstein, The Art Institute of Chicago
Training Staff, Docents, and Volunteers
Kate Ramsden, The Royal Festive Hall, London
Lucy Ribeiro, National Portrait Gallery, London
Employment and Volunteer Opportunities for blind people in the arts community
Hope McMath, Cummer Museum of Art
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Art Beyond Sight Community and Advocacy Discussion Group and Social Action Projects:
- Network with people you might not otherwise get the chance to exchange ideas and experiences -- people who are blind and visually impaired, artists, museum enthusiasts, seniors, veterans, homebound people, parents of blind children.
- Reach out to your local community through national membership organizations and groups, as well as local rehabilitation and community agencies.
- Get on board with Equal Opportunities for All initiative. Advance key issues in the education and rehabilitation of people who are blind through art education and exposure to the arts. Work with community leaders, scholars, and administrators to remove barriers created by misconceptions and lack of information. Share research on blind people's cognitive abilities and creative expression through the arts.
- Join Museum as Community Center program. Foster local participation and activism through museums as a community hub and improve networking and community-based partnerships.
- Find out about Braille Literacy Through The Arts initiative. Promote literacy and braille reading skills through exposure to various art forms and cultural experiences.
- Join an interdisciplinary interaction between practitioners and researchers. This group has met in person or by phone annually for many years.
- Never heard about Pictorial Literacy Project ? Work for full intellectual access to the world of art: Join an international network of activists and educators who share tactile and multi-sensory materials.
- Say little, do much -- ArtWorks to change unemployment figures! Learn about ArtWorks Employment initiative.
Moderated by Vickie Collins, National Library Service for the Blind and National Exhibits by Blind Artists, Rebecca McGinnis, Metropolitan Museum of Art , Ann Cunningham, Colorado Center for the Blind, and Carole Gothelf, The Shield Institute
Advocacy Discussion Topic Leaders
Professional and Amateur Artists
Stephanie Moore, VSA Arts
Scott Nelson, Art of the Eye
Vickie Collins, National Exhibits by Blind Artists
Art Lovers and Museum Goers
Angela Wolf, National Federation of the Blind
Parents and Families of Blind Children
Art and Art History Students with Visual Impairments
Blind People, People with Sight Loss, and Advocacy Groups
Patricia Maurer, National Federation of the Blind
William Rowland, Ph.D. The South African National Council for the Blind
Seniors, Veterans, and Homebound People with Sight Loss
Carole Gothelf, The Shield Institute
Simon Labbett, Royal National Institute of the Blind
Tourists who are visually impaired
Visual Impairment Basics
Karen Seidman, The Lighthouse International
Benefits of Art Education
Sandra Jackson, Studio Museum in Harlem
Philip Yenawine, Visual Understanding in Education
Benefits of Art Education for Students who are Blind or Visually Impaired
Judy Strauss-Schwartz, Educator and Mobility Specialist
The International Community
Rebecca McGinnis, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museums as Community Centers
Rebecca Hinde, Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Ann Cunningham, Colorado Center for the Blind
Libraries for Blind People and tactile and Multisensory materials
Grace Lyons, DC Regional Library
Social Action and the Sharing of Tactile and Multisensory Materials
Noriko Yoshikawa , Braillecom, Japan
Philippe Claudet, Les Doigts Qui Rêvent
Fabio Levi, Tactile Vision, Turin, Italy
Employment and Volunteer Opportunities for blind people in the arts community
Hope McMath, Cummer Museum of Art
Foundations interested in this field
Art Historians interested in this field
Art Beyond Sight
The latest from the National Endowment for the Arts, Suzanne Richards
The latest from American Foundation for the Blind
The latest from the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), Roberta Williams
The latest from the Braille Authority of North America (BANA), Eileen Curran
The latest from the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of Blind and Visually Impaired (AER), Mark Richert
The latest from the National Art Educators Association (NAEA)
The latest from the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), Patricia Maurer
The latest from the VSA Arts, Stephanie Moore,
The latest from the National Exhibit of Blind Artists (NEBA), Vickie Collins
The latest from the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
The latest from the American Association of Museums
The latest from the UNESCO
The latest from ICOM
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Art Beyond Sight Theory and Research Discussion Group
- Stay informed about cognitive, social, educational, and developmental psychological research and philosophy, and how new findings contribute to our knowledge about tactile perception.
- Learn how our brain processes tactile and visual information, and if the concepts that we consider "visual" can be understood without sight.
- Find practitioners and blind people interested to take part in research; find researchers in related disciplines looking to collaborate; post call for papers.
- Collaborate towards informal meetings, and formal conference panels at national conferences.
Moderated by Morton A. Heller, Eastern Illinois University and John M. Kennedy, University of Toronto
Research Discussion Topic Leaders
Haptic Perception of 3D Properties of Art.
Gunnar Jansson, University of Uppsala
Social and Educational Psychology.
Simon Hayhoe, Birmingham University
Philosophy: Are Pictures Visual? Philosophical and conceptual implications of new research on blindness and perception.
Rob Hopkins, University of Sheffield
Cognitive research of blind people's perception and how it informs our understanding about learning processes and cognition of all people. Multisensory teaching and learning tools for all audiences (including students with learning disabilities).
Krishnankutty (Krish) Sathian, M.D., Ph.D. Emory University, GA
Alvaro Pascual-Leone Garcia, M.D., Ph.D. Harvard Medical School
Charles Spence, Oxford University
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Art Beyond Sight Learning Tools Discussion Group
- Learn about multi-sensory learning tools for teaching art to people with vision loss, including: touch tours, touchable objects, verbal description, sound, drama, tactile diagrams, and art making.
- Exchange ideas about adapting these learning tools for audiences of different ages, vision abilities, and backgrounds. Exchange ideas about low-cost strategies for creating these tools.
- Learn how to pilot and evaluate your programs and integrate art into other curriculum areas. Refine your verbal description skills, create tactile diagrams, pilot an art studio or art history course.
- Find out how to acquire and use existing tactile diagrams, sound interpretive compositions, and curriculum integration activities. This discussion group works jointly on conference panels and proposals, shares materials and programming ideas.
Moderated by and Teresa Kardoulias, Art Beyond Sight and Francesca Rosenberg, The Museum of Modern Art
Learning Tools Discussion Topic Leaders:
Touch and Tactile Experiences:
guided and self guided, and other touch experiences such as touchable models, replicas, facsimiles, props, tactile diagrams. It is moderated by
Leah Fox, The Museum of Modern Art
Elvira D'Amicone, Museo Egizio, Turin , Italy
Conservation Concerns involved in putting together guidelines for touching art.
Clara Ines Rojas-Sebesta, Art Beyond Sight
Verbal Description: ways of enriching verbal descriptions with other multisensory experiences, and ways to practice and refine verbal description skills
Louise Brasher, Birmingham Museum of Art
Verbal Description: Audio Guides. Ways to practice and refine verbal description skills
Joel Snyder, National Captioning Institute, Audio Description Associates
Sound and Drama:
Ermyn King, Penn State University Arts and Health Outreach Initiative
Tactile Diagrams:
information and advances in the field, such as the universal tactile code, different methods of exploring tactile pictures, and effective and affordable methods of tactile printing. Different Printing Methods
Robert Jaquiss, VIEW International Foundation
Barry Richardson, Monash University
Art Making:
Objectives of Art Programs: developing thinking skills, improving tactile and motor skills, enhancing curriculum, and building self-confidence
David Tabak, Guild for the Blind, Chicago
Art Making: Materials, Techniques, and Resources
Carol Wisker, formerly Philadelphia Museum of Art
Carrie Marcotte, Albright-Knox Gallery
Educational Extensions: Art, Aesthetics, Social and Cultural History of the World
Marke Pertunnen, School for the Blind Finland
K.Venkatesh, Chandana Art Foundation International, Bangalore, India
Curriculum Integration Activities: Art and blind students' curriculum
Alice Mayfield, Colorado School for the Blind
Accessibility Resources (accessible web and labels, audio guides, alternative formats etc.)
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