artbeyondsight

http://www.artbeyondsight.org, http://www.nybeyondsight.org  

Art Education for the Blind (AEB) and its Art Beyond Sight Institute and Lab make art and visual culture accessible for children and adults with vision loss and other disabilities. Its methods, curricula, tactile diagrams and other teaching tools are used at museums and schools worldwide. Current programs include a Multi-Site Museum Accessibility Study, consultancies/trainings at museums, the online publication of American Identities (a new volume of AEBs multi-sensory art encyclopedia), a hands-on art/occupational therapy project to teach daily living skills to children with vision loss, New York Beyond Sight, coordination of the Art Beyond Sight Collaborative and its annual Awareness Month, and a biennial conference (co-sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art) on multimodal approaches to learning.