Texas A&M features an inclusive art exhibit for the visually impaired
Running till May 21
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Billy Smith II, Texas A&M Division of Marketing & Communication, Sharon McConnell-Dickerson A Cast of Blues exhibit
and last updated 2021-05-04 12:55:26-04
COLLEGE STATION, TX â Texas A&M University is exhibiting A Cast of Blues , featuring the artwork of Sharon McConnell-Dickerson, who is blind.
This exhibition allows visitors to wear provided gloves and touch the masks, a visual medium, that is accessible to everyone who visits the J. Wayne Stark Galleries.
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My good friend and artist Sharon McConnell-Dickerson told me about her Christmas tree the other night and I laughed in disbelief.
Sharon is an artist, lecturer, teacher, and speaker. Her work is featured in numerous exhibitions and included in museum, university, and private art collections. She and I got to know each other when I learned of her work with Mississippi blues artists. Influenced by Native American Blind Sculptor Michael Naranjo, Sharon has taken life-casts of 52 blues musicians. A life-cast is essentially a plaster cast of a human body part, such as the face, full head, hand, foot, or torso. Like the ones you may have had when you broke your arm, just on your face for long enough to get the form.