CONFERENCE: Art Beyond Sight: Multi-modal Approaches to Learning
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>Organized by Art Education for the Blind, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
>and the Museum Access Consortium
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>Friday, October 14, and Saturday, October 15, 2005
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>Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the
>Museum of American Folk Art
>
>In a culture in which vision is by far the dominant sense, and life
>revolves
>around the visual, the potential for learning through other sensory
>modalities is too often ignored. This innovative international
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>conference will address the challenge faced by educators, artists and
>museum
>professionals, to create multimodal learning opportunities that
>
>better serve all audiences. Psychologists and educators will explore ideas
>and recent research findings relating to other learning modalities,
>including touch, sound, language, kinesthetics, and even smell. The
>conference will also examine the relationships between vision, non-vision,
>and the other senses, through discussions focusing
>
>on blindness and learning. Issues raised include the communication of ideas
>about visual culture through non-visual means, cross-modal interaction and
>multi-sensory integration, and the implications of Universal Design for
>learning.
>
>Friday, October 14, will be spent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with
>presentations and panel discussions focusing on perspectives on multi-modal
>learning in practice (morning sessions) and new fMRI studies, cross-modal
>interaction and understanding learning (afternoon
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>session). Among the presenters: Rebecca McGinnis and Deborah Jaffe (the
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>Metropolitan Museum of Art), Hannah Goodwin (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston),
>Georgina Kleege (University of California at Berkeley and author of Sight
>Unseen.), Dr. Alvaro Pascuale-Leone (Harvard Medical Center), and David
>Rose
>(Harvard Medical School of Education and CAST).
>
>The Saturday, October 15, morning session will take place at the Museum
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>of Modern Art, and will comprise two panel discussions: "Multi-Modal
>Approaches to Accessibility: Best Practices," chaired by Paula Terry
>(Director, Office of AccessAbility, National Endowment for the Arts), and
>"Teaching Through Touch: Touch and Interactive Exhibits and Tools,"
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>chaired by Francesca Rosenberg (Museum of Modern Art).
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>The Saturday afternoon session will be held at the American Folk Art
>Museum.
>Panel discussions on "Language and Communicating about Visual Art" and
>"Artists Response to Multi-sensory Challenges," chaired by Pam
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>Rogers (Pure Visions Art Studio/The Shield Institute), will further explore
>the conference theme.
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>In addition, there will be evening "Dining and Discussion" events and
>Saturday breakfast meetings. To receive complete conference details and
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>an invitation (registration is $50), send your name, address, phone number,
>and e-mail address to [log in to unmask]
>Please put "October conference" in the subject line.
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