Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico Connecticut Children’s Museo Omero, Italy Constitution Hill, South Africa Museum Access Consortium of NY Council for Exceptional Children Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cultural Access Consortium , New York Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens Museum of the City of New York Dahesh Museum of Art The Nassau County Museum of Art The Dayton Art Institute National Center for Disability Services Eli Whitney Museum National Endowment for the Arts Emory University National Federation of the Blind “If the world really looks like Fine Arts of San Francisco National Gallery London, UK that I will paint no more!” National Institute for the Visually Handicapped (Legion of Honor and de Young) –– FrenchFrench ImpressionistImpressionist ClaudeClaude Monet,Monet, flingingflinging Finish National Gallery, Finland Regional Center, India away his glasses. Yet he continued to paint, Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind Neuberger Museum of Art/Purchase College despite severe astigmatism and cataracts. Frank Joubert Art and Design Center, The New Jersey Historical Society South Africa The New York Institute for Special Gallery Tom, Japan Education/Schermerhorn Dept. The Governor Morehead School for the Blind The Noguchi Museum Health Arts Network at Duke/Duke University Omaha Children’s Museum Eye Center Overbrook School for the Blind Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Parents of Blind Children-NJ Impaired Penn State University Libraries/Services for The Iowa Children’s Museum Persons with Disabilities Iziko South African National Gallery, Perkins School for the Blind South Africa Philadelphia Museum of Art Jersey City Museum Pure Vision Art Studio The Jewish Guild for the Blind Royal National Institute for the Blind, UK The Jewish Museum St. Dunstan’s, UK The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Seeing with Photography Collective Jyväskylä School for the Visually Impaired, The Shield Institute Finland Sineberychoff Art Museum, Finland Kentucky School for the Blind South Carolina School for the Deaf/Blind There’s more to art than meets the eye! Laing Art Gallery, Tyne and Wear Museums, UK Museum Laynor Foundation Museum Starlight Studio and Art Gallery See...Hear...Touch...Enjoy! Les Doigts Qui Rêvent, France The Lighthouse International Tsetse Gallery Lower East Side Tenement Museum Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum Manchester Art Gallery, UK Victoria & Albert Museum, UK Maryland School for the Blind View Via Headphones Audio Description ArtArt BeyondBeyond SightSight Maryland State Library for the Blind and Service Physically Handicapped Virginia School for the Deaf, Blind and AwarenessAwareness MonthMonth Metropolitan Museum of Art Multi-disabled at Hampton Miami Art Museum VSA arts The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Walters Art Museum OctoberOctober 20052005 Minnesota State Academy for the Blind Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Missouri School for the Blind Children Musée du Louvre, France World Blind Union, Spain See...Hear...Touch...Enjoy! What is Awareness Week? For more information contact During Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month 2005, dis- Organized by Art Education for the Blind (AEB), Art Education for the Blind cover firsthand how educators, artists, and museum Awareness Month is an annual international initiative 589 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 curators address the challenge of making visual cul- to focus public attention on the benefits of making art www.artbeyondsight.org ture available to adults and children affected by sight and culture a part of life for children and adults with loss. People who are blind or have vision problems sight loss. can now understand and enjoy the visual arts This brochure is During Awareness Month, through touch, sound, language, movement – even available in museums, libraries, schools, smell and taste! The multi-sensory experiences pro- large-print format. Art Beyond Sight and service agencies for visu- vided by these dedicated professionals create learn- Just ask a staff ally impaired people cele- Celebrate with ing opportunities that better serve all audiences. person for it. brate how to use the senses Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month 2005’s we have – whether touch, taste, sight, hearing, or smell participating organizations: At museums around the world, people with sight loss – to enjoy art and culture. The participating organiza- can experience art both ancient and contemporary. tions listed in this brochure work together with sighted Paintings, sculpture, architecture, and other visual and blind people to increase programs that make art arts are available through verbal description and tac- education, art making, and visual culture available to Supported by Eyetech Pharmaceuticals tile representation, through music and sound compo- all. There’s a calendar of special public events for sitions, and through touch models. There can be art Adaptive Environments Awareness Month 2005 at AEB’s Web site, beyond sight for people who love art and who have Afghanistan Association of the Blind www.artbeyondsight.org/change/aw-index.shtml. Alabama Institute for the Deaf & Blind vision loss. They have a right to the beauty and to Albright-Knox Art Gallery the life-enhancing values of art and culture that are Education is a critical part of Art Beyond Sight Albuquerque Museum available to sighted people. Amaranthine Museum Awareness Month. An annual all-day Conference Call Crash Course provides information for educators as American Foundation for the Blind People with sight loss can also enjoy making art, as well as families and friends of children and adults with Apollo Theatre they have through the ages. Van Gogh had glaucoma; visual impairments. This year’s Course is Monday, Arkansas School for the Blind Monet had cataracts; Mary Cassatt has diabetic Art Institute of Chicago October 17, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. EDT. The Course The Baltimore Museum of Art retinopathy. Today, adult artists with sight loss are schedule is on the AEB Web site. The course is free. To Bavarian Association of the Blind & Partially painters, photographers, and sculptors. Children who participate, just dial the conference call number: 1 (641) Sighted, Germany Birmingham Museum of Art are blind used raised-line drawing kits to create 985-8500, then press the conference access code (AEB works that represent their world and express their Blinded Veterans Association 2005), and the # sign. Brooklyn Museum feelings, just as their sighted friends do. Bruce Museum of Arts and Science Also this year, on October 14-15, AEB, the Metropolitan California School for the Blind Explore art with all your senses. Contact your local Museum of Art, and the Museum Access Consortium are CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) museum during Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month. cosponsoring an international conference, “Art Beyond Carroll Center for the Blind Cincinnati Art Museum And visit the Art Beyond Sight Web site: Sight: Multi-Modal Approaches to Museum Learning.” Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually www.artbeyondsight.org. For more Conference information, send an e-mail to Impaired [email protected]. Colorado Ballet (continued on back)