Art Beyond Sight a Resource Guide to Art Creativity and Visual Impairment
About Fine art Education for the Blind
Art Education for the Blind (AEB)
AEB in Action!
Art Education for the Blind Publications
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| Elisabeth Salzhauer Axel AEB Founder and Executive Director |
"Every bit a museum educator, I also knew that nosotros could detect ways to bring fine art to blind people, and that learning about, appreciating, and creating art would amend and enrich the lives of bullheaded people as it does for sighted people."
Art Education for the Blind, Inc. (AEB)
AEB's mission is to make fine art, fine art history, and visual culture accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired. Our goal is to provide and promote the tangible benefits of art pedagogy, museum visits, and fine art making for children and adults with sight loss – to requite those who cannot see equal access to the world'southward visual culture and the opportunity to experience the life-enhancing ability of art.
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| Students and instructors in AEB'southward get-go art history grade for visually impaired and bullheaded people, July 1987 |
Our fundamental conventionalities is that people who are bullheaded or visually impaired must have access to the earth's visual civilisation if they are to participate fully in their communities and in the world at big, that it improves the quality of their lives, and helps them gain skills crucial to their education and employment opportunities.
Headquartered in New York City, AEB carries out its work every bit the leader and facilitator of an international, multi-disciplinary collaborative of sighted and blind museum professionals, artists, educators, scientists, scholars, rehabilitation professionals, and bullheaded and visually impaired advisors throughout the earth.
Activities of AEB
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| Francesca Rosenberg (left), Museum of Modern Art Managing director of Community Outreach and Access Programs, with a bullheaded visitor |
1. AEB creates accessible art and fine art teaching programs that many museums provide for their bullheaded and visually dumb visitors.
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| A touch tour at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida |
2. AEB provides the educational materials and guidance to aid the museums establish and maintain these programs.
AEB partners with museums in New York, beyond the nation, and around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, Whitney Museum of American Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, Guggenheim, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Fine art, Miami Fine art Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum in England, and Musée du Louvré in France.
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| 2004 Awareness Week Poster |
3. AEB coordinates the activities of the Art Beyond Sight Collaborative and its annual Awareness Month. Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month is an almanac serial of special exhibits, demonstrations, and conferences at museums, schools, libraries and other educational and cultural institutions, along with online discussion groups and a unique interdisciplinary telephone seminar. The goals of Awareness Month are to raise awareness and to bring together professionals, educators, researchers, the media, sighted and blind artists, and art lovers from around the world.
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| Dr. John Kennedy (right) Chair of the Department of Life Sciences, University of Toronto, conducting research with bullheaded artist Esref Armagan. |
iv. AEB advances cognition in the issues of blindness, art, sensory perception, and the capabilities of bullheaded people by bringing together professionals working in many different disciplines including museum pedagogy, psychology, brain research, and software evolution.
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| Esref Armagan demonstrates his technique at the reception honoring his work. |
5. AEB encourages people who are blind and visually dumb to create art, and helps them promote their piece of work. In 2004 AEB organized a New York Urban center exhibition of the work of Esref Armagan, a congenitally blind artist from Turkey.
AEB also introduced Mr. Armagan to the NYC museum community at a symposium organized at the American Folk Fine art Museum.
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| Chandler Burr |
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AEB in Action!
Cheque out the wide range of contempo AEB activities!
2007. Occupational and Fine art Therapy with school-age children in Brooklyn public schools. A model project.
June, 2004. Pearl Rosen, National Center for Disability Services, at AEB's Symposium "Re-Visioning Art, Art History, Aesthetics and Creativity" at the American Folk Art Museum.
October 11, 2004. Associate Managing director Nina Levent kicks off the Fine art Beyond Sight Awareness Month Press Conference, with representatives of the NYC museum and arts community and the National Federation of the Blind.
June, 2004. At the AEB-sponsored exhibition and reception for blind artist Esref Armagan, from left, Kicki Nordstrom, Secretarial assistant Full general of the World Blind Union, Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records, Esref Armagan, AEB Director Elisabeth Axel.
November, 2004. From left, AEB Director Elisabeth Axel, Jimmy Carter of The Blind Boys of Alabama, and guests Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Loma.
Oct, 2004. Associate Manager Nina Levent represented AEB in Ancona, Italy, at Museo Omero's "Art Within Accomplish," an international conference on museum accessibility for blind people.
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Art Pedagogy for the Blind Publications
Art History Through Bear upon and Sound: A Multisensory Guide for the Blind and Visually Dumb (multimedia package)
Art Across Sight: A Resource Guide to Art, Creativity, and Visual Impairment (book published by AEB and AFB Printing)
Art Beyond Sight. A Demonstration of Practical Techniques for Teaching Art to People with Visual Impairments (video produced by MOMA and AEB)
(multimedia package)
A groundbreaking multi-book fine art history series for people who are blind or visually impaired that is the upshot of nine years of research, development, and testing by Art Education for the Blind. The series spans the history of fine art, from prehistoric through contemporary, guiding the reader through a journeying that has long been denied to blind and visually dumb audiences.
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Six volumes of this series were co-published by the American Press House for the Bullheaded and Art Education for the Blind. For information on purchasing them, contact: coordinator@artbeyondsight.org.
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(book published by AEB and AFB Press)
A 500-folio book that addresses all aspects of developing museum and customs art education programs for individuals with visual impairments.
With the companion video described below, this book serves as a preparation tool for museum educators, school teachers, or anyone working directly with adults or children with vision loss.
- Y'all can buy this publication from our co-publisher
American Foundation for the Blind.
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(video produced by the Museum of Modern Art and Art Educational activity for the Blind, narrated by Meredith Viera)
With the companion volume, Fine art Beyond Sight: A Resources Guide to Fine art, Creativity, and Visual Harm , this video serves as a training tool for anyone working straight with adults or children with sight loss.
- You can buy this video from the American Foundation for the Bullheaded or the American Clan of Museums.
Copyright Art Instruction for the Blind 2005
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