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 touching
art touching you, Hove, uk
Information
on Touching Art Touching You
"Touching
Art Touching You @ Hove Museum & Art Gallery, June - September
2010... BlindArt @ Hove Museum & Art Gallery… 12 June – 5
September 2010
Touching
Art Touching You, a fresh and unique concept in the visual arts comes to
Hove Museum & Art Gallery on 12 June. The exhibition breaks traditional
barriers by actively encouraging visitors to experience and explore the
art on display through touch and other senses. The experience challenges
the notion that sight is essential for creating and enjoying exceptional
art.
The
exhibition includes paintings, sculptures and installations, including
sound, drawn from the permanent collection of BlindArt. BlindArt is a
charity which promotes contemporary works by visually impaired and
sighted artists, showcasing them side by side and challenging the public
to tell the difference.
Touching
Art Touching You appeals to a wide ranging audience, including visually
impaired visitors as well as children and families who can enjoy the
freedom to explore the art through touch.
Comments
from exhibition visitors:
"Over
throwing years of not being allowed to touch art. Quite mind bending".
"Touching
the work added another dimension to the usual event of looking at art"
"Felt
nervous and excited touching the art. Taboo/freedom/liberating"
All works
in the exhibition are made accessible to a diverse audience through
touch, audio description, large print and Braille labels."
BlindArt
 Picture This! workshops, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, new York, us
Information
on Picture This! Workshops
"Picture This! Workshops... These workshops for adults who are blind or partially sighted
make works of art accessible through detailed descriptions,
touch, and other activities to awaken the senses.
This program is free, but places are limited, so reservations
are required. Please call 212–650–2010 or email
access@metmuseum.org.
June 10, 2010...
Exploring Fashion through Art...
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m...
Uris Center for Education, ground floor”
Metropolitan Museum
of Art
touch Tours,
Victoria & Albert museum, London, uk
Information on
Touch Tours
"Touch
Tours [at the V&A]...
Each of these tours will include objects to touch plus
descriptions of other associated pieces.
Introduction to the Ceramics Galleries... Tuesday 22 June...
Meeting Point, Grand Entrance... 11.30-12.30...
Join this introductory tour of
the new galleries, touch some of the objects and learn about
the techniques used to make them.
Free, advanced booking is
essential”
Victoria & Albert
Museum |
Eco Sound Logo
To contact us:
E-mail:
editor@blindnessandarts.com
We are based in:
Leicester,
UK
Eco
Ancient Greek, Verb, pronounced Ekh-o. The
Transliterated word is Echo. New Testament Greek Lexicon
“[To] have (hold) in the hand, in the sense of wearing, to
have (hold) possession of the mind (refers to alarm, agitating emotions,
etc.), to hold fast keep, to have or comprise or involve, to regard or
consider or hold as.”
Source: http://www.crosswalk.com
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