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.
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