other students

     I have been teaching sculpture and flat media art with children in schools for a long time. Being an itinerant teaching artist/ therapist, I have been able to step into classrooms all over New York City and now in Ithaca. Most of the time I am too busy to photograph what I do, however here are a few images. 

 

     Looking, Dog and Turtle, and Volcano, made with plasticine, sandpaper and mesh are from a project at MoMA in NY for visually impaired children. I was fortunate to work with Francesca Rosenberg from their Access Program.  Our goal was to explore the idea with this group that a story could be contained in a picture and that a picture could be a story. How does a blind person “see” the world? What we observe in these collages is a refreshing perspective from a great group of children.  

 

     Francesca toured the museum with the children, showing them story paintings from the collection. She used a process of visual description following raised-line maps of the paintings. The process was long. The group was rapt, attentive to every word and different in this way from other sighted groups of children.