Monday, June 26, 2023

Lots of people Love to Touch Art. Here is a great opportunity!

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PRESS RELEASE

June 20, 2023

Barbara Oswald (206) 734-1994   boswald.revisionarts@gmail.com

 Please Touch Exhibit: Art Equity, Resilience & Collaboration

Often art galleries and museum post signs or have guards to make sure patrons Do Not Touch the art or even get too close. This exhibit is the opposite. The art in the Please Touch Exhibit is just that: please touch it and have the tactile experience with the pieces.

ReVision Arts has a different approach to the definition of art. Believing in the concept of “Art for All” it is an inclusive organization that brings together people of all abilities to celebrate art. ReVision Arts focusses on artists with all types of disabling conditions, and other artists who consider themselves underrepresented.

Wednesdays- Sundays, June 28- July 28, patrons can visit the 9th Annual Please Touch Exhibit at the A/NT Gallery, Seattle Center International Fountain Pavilion. The exhibit will move to El Centro de la Raza for a two day showing on July 29-30. Check the website for times: ReVision Arts

The artists who created the pieces for the show represent a wide range of ages/experience, ethnicities, and abilities/disabilities. From young children who created two pieces while working with art mentors to Duwamish-Muckleshoot, Vietnamese, Mexican artists, Blind/low vision, and Disabled/Nondisabled artists whose work has received recognition and awards.

18 art pieces are open for patrons to touch and experience art on a level that usually doesn’t happen. First time sighted patrons are offered eye covers to expand their horizons with this tactile art experience.

Barbara Oswald, Founder and Director of ReVision Arts, is one of the founders of the Please Touch Exhibit concept and has produced and curated all the pieces since its inception. This year’s theme is Art Equity, Resilience & Collaboration. Moving the narrative from what art looks like to what it feels like offers visitors a new sensory relationship.

Barbara Illuminates the experience: “Being able to touch art without vision, feel it with your hands, gives one an opportunity to enhance your tactile nature. Think of the joy of petting your beloved pet. Come, Please Touch and expand your horizons!”

Opening reception is on July 1st, 5:00-8:00 pm at the A/NT Gallery. This exhibit is sponsored by ReVision Arts, Beacon Arts, A/NT Gallery, and City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture.

Admission is free.

ReVisionArts.org

Promotional postcard image. Enjoy with a sighted person to hear who the sponsors are


  

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