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Tag Archives: low vision

The Museum Celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities

by , in Education

Nov

27

Nearly a billion people live with a disability – that is just about 15% of the world’s population! This is a population that often faces many challenges and barriers in their everyday lives that others do not.  The Cummer Museum believes that art is for all people and constantly looks for ways to remove barriers and ease challenges for persons with disabilities to engage with and to create art.

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Art Beyond Sight and the Women of Vision Program

by , Marketing Manager in Education

Oct

26

The Women of Vision program celebrates the communicative power and beauty of the visual and literary arts through emotional responses by women who each have low vision or blindness. On a personal level…

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October is Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month

by , Director of Art Education in Art, Behind the Scenes, Community, Education

Sep

30

October marks Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month in museums and cultural institutions around the world. In contribution to the effort to raise awareness of disability, accessibility, and inclusion, the Cummer Museum displays its annual exhibition of artwork from the Women of Vision program during this month. Installed in the Museum’s Art Connections area, the show is open to the public and features works in of printmaking, ceramics, painting, and sculpture.

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In Black & White: Works by Women of Vision

by , Director of Art Education in Education

Oct

07

This artful program held at The Cummer, is observed as a national model, serves as a vehicle for personal reflections, demonstrates the communicative power of visual and literary arts, and develops accessibility awareness for all.

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Celebrating Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month with the Women of Vision Exhibition

by , Marketing Manager in Education

Oct

08

The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens will celebrate Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month this October with the opening of The Women of Vision exhibition in Art Connections. Art Beyond Sight (ABS) was created in 1987 on the premise that everyone must have access to the world’s visual culture if they are to participate fully in their communities and in the world at large.

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The Art of Being Female: Works by the Women of Vision

by , Marketing Manager in Education

Oct

14

For the past fourteen years, a group of women has made the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens their monthly venue as a reprieve through the communicative power and beauty of the visual and literary arts.

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