Posted Tuesday April 23 2013 at 9:52 pm
in Volunteer Opportunities
We need a special volunteer to help make accommodations for people who are blind or who have low vision by audio describing our exhibits.
3 - 6 hours of online training are required prior to recording your description in the Open Door Gallery.
Your audio description would make the visual verbal to people in the gallery and also for visitors to the website!
Interested volunteers should email kati@vsamass.org
Posted Sunday April 21 2013 at 4:53 pm
in Open Door Gallery
The Open Door Gallery presents an intimate view of contemporary Sri Lanka photography by Fulbright Artist and Teacher Liz Doles.
Liz Doles - Sri Lanka Pinhole Photography and Portraits. April 22 - July 19, 2013.
Opening Reception: April 25 2013, 4pm to 7pm. Artist Talk at 6pm.
Artist's Statement
I traveled to Sri Lanka in 2011 on a Fulbright grant to capture the long lived and often overlooked architectural heritage of this corner of South Asia. While traversing the country in buses, trains and trishaws, I was beguiled not only with the monuments and the myths of the powerful, but with more humble dwellings, shacks, shops and above all, with the countenance of the ordinary and the unsung.
Sri Lanka is a tiny country that looms large on the international scene. For the past eighteen months, I have been living and photographing in the country formerly called Ceylon. This exhibit embodies my vision of a nation poised at the edge of transformation from a land torn by horrific internecine strife into South Asia’s next miracle.
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Posted Saturday April 20 2013 at 11:18 pm
in Education
The Kennedy Center is sponsoring a free webinar Tuesday, April 23, 2013 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm given by Ricki Sabia, Ed D, J.D., Education and Disability Consultant, entitled "UDL 101: An Introduction to Universal Design for Learning for Teaching Artists".
Ms. Sabia is the founder and former chair of the National UDL Task Force and was appointed by the Governor of Maryland as the UDL expert for the state UDL Task Force. She recently left her position as Associate Director of Education for the National Down Syndrome Policy Center to be a disability and education consultant.
The intended audience is teaching artists with little to no knowledge of UDL.
Real-time captioning will be available during the webinar presentation.
Register now.
