Art Beyond Sight: Multi-modal Approaches to Learning
 
Organized by Art Education for the Blind, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and the Museum Access Consortium
 
REGISTER NOW! Places are limited.

Friday, October 14, and Saturday, October 15, 2005

Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the 
Dahesh Museum of 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 
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 session). Among the 
presenters: Rebecca McGinnis and Deborah Jaffe (the Metropolitan Museum of 
Art), Hannah Goodwin (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Georgina Kleege 
(University of California at Berkeley and author of Sight Unseen.), David 
Howes (Concordia University), 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 of 
Modern Art, and will comprise two panel discussions: "Multi-Modal 
Approaches to Accessibility: Best Practices," chaired by Beth Ziebarth 
(Smithsonian), and "Teaching Through Touch: Touch and Interactive Exhibits 
and Tools," chaired by Francesca Rosenberg (Museum of Modern Art).
 
The Saturday afternoon session will be held at the Dahesh Museum. Panel 
discussions on “Teaching Strategies to Engage All the Senses” and "Artists’ 
Responses to Multi-sensory Challenges," chaired by Pam Rogers (Pure Visions 
Art Studio/The Shield Institute), will further explore the conference 
theme. 
 
In addition, there will be evening "Dining and Discussion" events and a 
workshop on Sunday, October 16. Email [log in to unmask] 
for a detailed program and registration form. Please put "October 
conference" in the subject line.

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