Now that The Active Power of Touch has closed, I am revisiting feedback while preparing for an upcoming conference presentation. The connections visitors made with the artworks were deeply personal and tangible. Together, artists and
The Active Power of Touch opens soon! My new exhibit celebrates the richness of touch in artistic experience—whether through sculpture, raised-line compositions, or mixed media pieces. The artists who submitted pieces for my show work
Braille is a powerful tool for literacy and independence that has transformed the lives of blind people around the world. Both print and Braille are codes that represent letters that are combined into words and
Sometimes AI can describe images correctly, but other times it makes mistakes. We all share content online, making each of us a content creator. By presenting information through both text and images, creators can connect
Models are essential tools for understanding things that are too large, too small, or too fragile to touch. Three-dimensional models help blind people learn about objects through touch. Manipulating a physical object engages our brains
The Importance of Tactile Maps for Blind People Growing up as the only blind child in a school full of sighted children, I had fewer opportunities to explore tactile maps by touch than they had
The Active Power of Touch, Hosted at The Peale, Baltimore’s Community Museum | April 2026 The Peale Museum invites artists from the greater Baltimore region to apply for inclusion in The Active Power of Touch, a
Art can engage both the senses of touch and vision, depending on the materials used and the way that it is created. There are many resources about visual characteristics of art, but artists do not
The highlight of 2024 was the launch of a new exhibit. Dr. Bernard Means and I co-curated The Founding Fossils exhibit at the Peale Museum. Founding Fossils explains the surprising role that archaeology played in
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