Heart Art you can feel
Hi!
You're invited to two art show this month. The St. Augustine Art Association in their building in
St. Aug on Marine St & the Jacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts exhibit at Gallery L
in the Modis Building---a huge (literally) part of the downtown skyline.
Both run through the end of the month. My photography is in the JCVA show.
There is a special school there, the Florida School for the Deaf & Blind. This show is one they
can enjoy because you can feel the work. All pieces submitted are to be touched---a TACTILE SHOW.
We went to the opening on Sunday (& there is also a very good photography show) and
there was a wide variety of work: cloth, weaving, yarn, glass beads, clay, ceramics, felt, paper mache,
tree trunks, a broom and probably some others I'm missing. It was great to be able to touch the artwork!
(But somehow you still felt a little guilty doing something normally forbidden.)
I used to enjoy basket weaving & a free form heart was on the wall in my office. I thought it would be
perfect, because it's "organic" and lots of textures from nature. It has round reed splints on a grapevine form
with dyed flat reed, seagrass and the sheath from a gigantic split leaf philodendron weaving in and out
of the framework.
I did have this great idea to glue things onto a photo to create texture, but didn't get it done. Maybe next year...
Blessings!
Click on these links for more info
Posted by Pamela at 10/5/2009 7:37 PM 
Categories: Event
Tags: organic St Augustine touch deaf JCVA art blind Jacksonville
Categories: Event
Tags: organic St Augustine touch deaf JCVA art blind Jacksonville
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