Access | Arts | Community
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Join us in celebrating accessibility.
This reception features remarks on museum access by renowned disability studies scholar Georgina Kleege, as well as a variety of accessible tours of the 2009 MFA Exhibition: Begged, Borrowed, and Stolen. Committed to the goal of seamless access, the OSU Urban Arts Space has collaborated with Columbus arts and disability communities to make the space, the exhibitions and the programming accessible to all. Housed in the historic Lazarus building, which blends architectural preservation with cutting edge sustainability and accessibility, the OSU Urban Arts Space seeks to be welcoming and inclusive.
Tours at the reception will feature visual description, sign language, tactile examples of artwork, and opportunities to experience the artwork at a variety of levels. L. Scott Lissner, The Ohio Sate University ADA Coordinator, and Eva Ball, the OSU Urban Arts Space Accessibility Coordinator, will conduct a tour designed especially for gallery and museum professionals that focus specifically on the accessibility efforts of the OSU Urban Arts Space.
Light refreshments and entertainment. Free and open to all.
On View: 2009 MFA Exhibition: Begged, Borrowed, and Stolen
The Master of Fine Arts Exhibition returns to the OSU Urban Arts Space with Begged, Borrowed, and Stolen. This year's exhibition presents the work of all graduating MFA students in the OSU Department of Art. Showcasing research work in art + technology, ceramics, glass, painting + drawing, photography, printmaking, and sculpture, this exhibition celebrates nineteen emerging artists. Begged, Borrowed, and Stolen is organized by Jennifer Wulffson Bedford, independent art historian and former senior editor of the Bibliography of the History of Art at the Getty Research Institute, with Christopher Bedford, Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts. [uas.osu.edu/mfa2009]
About Georgina Kleege:
Kleege is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of two collections of essays, Sight Unseen: Essays on Blindness (Yale UP, 1999) and Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller (Gallaudet UP, 2007). She has published essays widely in literary journals such as Southwest Review, Raritan, and The Yale Review and she has recently delivered invited lectures on her new Blind at the Museum project at both the Tate Modern Art Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Kleege will also be presenting Wednesday, April 29th, on access to museums at annual Multiple Perspectives On Access, Inclusion & Disability conference hosted by The Ohio State University. [ada.osu.edu/conferences.htm]
Image from a reception during the exhibition, Sid Chafetz: Engaging the World.
