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Hello. My name is Jessie, and I'm a junior at East Tennessee State University. At the beginning of the school year, I was approached by the disabilities office of the school, and asked to participate in a team from the Reece Museum who were working to make a traveling art exhibit accessible. Over the past two months, all of us have worked hard to create tactale representations of the paintings, as well as verbal descriptions of the paintings for a tour guide to read and record for online listening. Now we're finally finished, and ready for tours. The press release I'm posting here gives details and dates for any interested parties in the tennessee area. PRESS RELEASE
The Reece Museum at ETSU, in partnership with the Mary B. Martin School of the Arts and ETSU Department of Art and Design, is hosting the traveling exhibit A New Subjectivity: Figurative Painting after 2000, from October 16 through December 15, 2017. This traveling exhibition originated at Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York. According to Jason Stopa, exhibition curator, “This exhibition, composed entirely of paintings by women, attempts to categorize Expressionism in new terms.” The featured artists include Gina Beavers, Katherine Bernhardt, Katherine Bradford, Jackie Gendel, Liz Markus, and Rose Wylie.
Another partnership associated with A New Subjectivity involves the Reece Museum and the ETSU Office of Disability Services. With assistance from the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Reece Museum and the Office of Disability Services are offering two, free A New Subjectivity tours to the low-vision and blind communities—on Tuesday, October 24, at 5:00 p.m. and Saturday, October 28, at 1:00 p.m. These docent-led tours will include verbal descriptions of the works and hand-held tactile boards of the paintings.
On Thursday, November 9, Jason Stopa will give a free lecture in the Reece Museum that will be followed by a reception for the curator.
For more information about the exhibition, please visit:
http://www.etsu.edu/cas/cass/reece/exhibitions/upcoming.php#tab-5-2
or call the Reece Museum at 423-439-4392.
This sounds like a really cool idea. I'm nowhere near that vicinity, but wanted to express my support.
Well, if you're interested, there's supposed to be a streaming player with the descriptions of the paintings. When I have information for that, I'll post it. Thank you for expressing support. It's something I'm certainly proud to say I'm a part of.
Agree with poster #2