What is Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month?
This is an opportunity for schools, museums, libraries, agencies for the blind, and individuals to join together to raise public awareness about making art and culture a part of life for children and adults affected by sight loss. One focus is to familiarize parents, educators, and school and museum administrators with the benefits of art activities and museum visits for children with sight loss, and with how art can be used to foster braille literacy. Another is to enable community institutions to create and maintain programming for people with visual impairments through the use of a variety of learning tools. During Awareness Month, staff members are trained on sensitivity and accessibility, blind and sighted people are invited to participate in educational and art activities, and museums and schools lacking art programs for blind and visually impaired patrons and students are challenged to develop them.
