Art Beyond Sight:
Multi-modal Approaches to Learning
Organized by
Locations: The Metropolitan Museum of Art , Museum of Modern Art, and Dahesh Museum of Art
SESSION ABSTRACTS & PRESENTER BIOS
Friday, October 14
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Douglas Dillon Board Room
Perspectives on Multi-modal Learning in Practice
10.00
Welcome
Rebecca McGinnis, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum Access Consortium (MAC)
Elisabeth Axel, Art Beyond Sight
10.15
Keynote Address: Crossing Sensory Borders in the Arts and Life
David Howes, Concordia University, Montreal
10.50
Keynote Address: The Subject at Hand
Georgina Kleege, University of California, Berkeley
11.25
Museums, Access, and the Dubious Inheritance of Touch
Fiona Candlin, Birkbeck College, University of London
11.50
Coming to Our Senses at the Met
Rebecca McGinnis and Deborah Jaffe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
12.10
Multi-sensory Programming for People Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired:
Hannah Goodwin, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
12.30
Panel Discussion
Chair: Art Beyond Sight
1.00
Lunch (on your own)
(Opportunity to talk with Met educators and experience samples of verbal imaging and touch tours – meet at registration desk outside Douglas Dillon Board Room for directions)
Cross-modal Interactions, Mental Imagery, and Strategies for Learning
2.15
Esref Armagan and Perspective in Tactile Pictures
John M. Kennedy & Igor Juricevic, University of Toronto
2.40
Learning about Seeing from a Congenitally Blind Painter
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
3:05
Coffee Break
3.25
Recognizing Tactual Line Drawings by People who Are Visually Impaired -- Images, Memory and Learning
Linda Pring, Goldsmiths College, University of London
3:50
Cross-modal Attention and Multi-sensory Integration
Charles Spence, Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Oxford University
4:15
Visual Cortical Activity during Tactile Perception in the Sighted and Blind
Krish Sathian, M.D., Ph.D., Emory University
4:40
Panel Discussion: Chairs -- Lotfi Merabet, Harvard Medical School and Morton Heller, Eastern Illinois University
5:30
Closing Statement: Making Meaning and Reference for Educators. How this Research Informs Teaching Strategies and Techniques for Teaching Every Student
David Rose, Harvard School of Education and CAST, Universal Design for Learning.
6:00
Close of Conference Day One
Evening
Optional events:
- Opportunity to talk with Met educators and experience samples of verbal imaging and touch tours – meet at registration desk
- 7:30 Dutch-treat dinner discussions – registration required
- Meet informally on the Met Balcony for drinks – on your own
Saturday, October 15
Morning: Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
9:00
Welcome
Francesca Rosenberg, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Museum Access Consortium (MAC)
9:10
Multi-modal Approaches to Environments and Communications: Best Practices
Chair: Beth Ziebarth, Smithsonian Institution
Panelists:
Tish Brown, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Barry Ginley, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Andrea Haenlin-Mott, Northeast ADA and IT Center, Cornell University
Joel Snyder, Director of Described Media, National Captioning Institute
10:10
Break
10:30
Teaching Through Touch: Touch and Interactive Exhibits and Tools
Chair: Francesca Rosenberg, MoMA and MAC
Panelists:
Julie Watson, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Debra Hegstrom, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Nelie Plourde, Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, Texas
Cindy Vanden Bosch, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NY
Sandra Malmquist, Connecticut Children’s Museum
Ann Winters, Denver Art Museum
12:00
Lunch (on your own)
12:00-1:00
Optional:
MoMA Touch Tours in the Galleries and Sculpture Garden
Optional:
American Folk Art Museum Touch Tour
Afternoon:
Dahesh Museum of Art
580 Madison Avenue (between 56th and 57th Streets)
2:00
Teaching Strategies to Engage all the Senses
Chair: Mickie Silverstein, Art Institute of Chicago
Panelists:
Sofie Andersen, Antenna Audio Inc.
Louise Brasher, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Sandra Eastwood, formerly of Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Hope McMath, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida
Ines Powell, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Ken Struve, South Street Seaport Museum, NY
Robert Forloney, Museum and Cultural Education Consultant
Street Thoma, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Elke Zollitsch, Bavarian Association of the Blind & Partially Sighted, Munich
3:30
Coffee Break
4:00
Artists Respond to the Multi-sensory Challenge
Chair: Pam Rogers, Pure Visions Art Studio/The Shield Institute
Panelists:
Mark Andres, Seeing With Photography Collective, NY
Ann Cunningham, Artist & Educator
Betty Haskin, Duke University Eye Center
Barry Kleider, Photographer and arts educator
Sheri Khayami, Blind Art, UK
Carol Kreiser & Janet Simon, Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children
Pearl Rosen, Independent Consultant
5:30
Conference ends
7:00
Optional events:
Dutch-treat dinners – registration required
This conference is made possible by the generous support of
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Access programs at The Metropolitan are made possible by MetLife Foundation.
Access programs are also made possible by the generous support of the Filomen M. D'Agostino Foundation.
Additional support has been provided by the Sarah K. deCoizart Article Tenth Perpetual Charitable Trust, The Ceil & Michael E. Pulitzer Foundation, Inc., the Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust, the Sunny and Abe Rosenberg Foundation, the Allene Reuss Memorial Trust, the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation, and Jane B. Wachsler.
