Art for blind people

Museum of Prado, located in Madrid, is one of the most famous art galleries in Europe, receiving thousand of tourists from all the globe every year. The most recent exhibition is quite unique: some of the most famous paintings have been recreated in 3D, so everyone who suffers vision impairment can touch and feel them.

Please Touch the Art: This Artist Creates Tactile Portraits for the Blind While many artists consider pencils and paper to be their essential tools, Andrew Myers prefers his electric screwdriver. For the past several years, the California-based artist has been drilling thousands of screws into pieces of plywood and painting them to make 3-D masterpieces that can be appreciated by both blind and sighted people.

If you can’t see, you can’t experience art, right? Wrong. Touch and sound tours of galleries can open up art to blind people

Most recently, Georgina Kleege led tours at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, where visitors handled materials that artists had used in their work.

“You can look but you can’t touch.” That’s one of the first rules of museums, which house priceless works of art. But what about the community of blind and visually impaired who use their sense of touch to experience the world? The Unseen Art Project is an initiative to make art more accessible and inclusive by using 3D-printing technology to create replicas of masterpieces that can be touched ’till your heart is content. “There are many people in the world who have heard of classical…

Little Black Book, Touch-based street art turns up at Stenograffia, tells the tales of sight-impaired pioneers

Using the raised lines of fabric paint as his guide, John Bramblitt taught himself to paint after losing his sight.

A group of digital professionals in Finland is on a mission to provide equal access to visual art.

Check out these 12 great crafts for blind people that are sure to help stimulate the senses. These are all great activities open to interpretation.

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