Fri, May 27, 2005 -- 10:00 AM
Blind at the Museum
Forum discusses art by and for the visually impaired.
Host: Dave Iverson
Guests:
- Beth Dungan, art historian and postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Medicine and the Humanities and Law, co-curator of "Blind at the Museum," an exhibit of works by visually impaired artists at UC Berkeley's Berkeley Art Museum
- Georgina Kleege, adjunct professor of English at UC Berkeley and author of "Sight Unseen," a memoir about losing one's sight in a world that fears and stigmatizes blindness
- John Dugdale, a photographer whose work appears in the "Blind at the Museum" exhibit at the UC Berkeley Art Museum
- Pedro Hildago, a photographer whose work also appears in "Blind at the Museum."
More info:
- Follow Alice Wingwall who is losing her sight but not her desire to take photographs : This week's episode of SPARK on KQED features Alice Wingwall, one of the artists whose work appears in the BAM exhibit, Blind At the Museum. SPARK repeats Friday night at 11pm and Sunday night at 11:30pm.


