Posted Saturday August 24 2013 at 12:55 am
If you missed Liz Doles' Open Door Gallery Sri Lanka exhibit, you can now hear all about it.
This summer we launched our volunteer Audio Describer program with two enthusiastic volunteers, Hannah Schenk and Adrienne Wetmore. After taking an online course on Audio Description, Hannah and Adrienne created an Audio Described tour of Sri Lanka: Pinhole Photography and Portraits that is now available on our website for all to enjoy.
The Audio Description provides access to visitors who are blind or have low vision by describing the Open Door Gallery and each piece in the exhibition. Even though the tour is designed to provide access to visitors with limited vision, sighted visitors might be surprised by how much more they see with an audio describer's guidance.
Posted Wednesday August 14 2013 at 3:25 pm
Leslie Katz, Senior Editor of CNET's "Crave" section, authored a story published August 12, 2013 about Kimball Anderson and the artist's comics. Kimball's exhibit "Inside/Outside" is currently on display at the VSA MA Open Door Gallery.
"Kimball Anderson's comics feature superheroes, but not the kind with capes and X-ray vision. Anderson's superheroes summon extraordinary strength just to do the things most people take for granted -- walking out the front door or making small talk with a neighbor."
Read the rest of the story on the CNET website.
Posted Sunday July 28 2013 at 9:11 pm
The Open Door Gallery presents an exhibit which explores the separation of self and environment. Kimball Anderson is an artist whose experiences of chronic fatigue syndrome and agoraphobia inform the art he creates, manifesting in themes of isolation, recursion of self, inaction, and first person experience. The artwork explores the quiet and the gentle, while searching for something ambiguous underneath and reflects the period when the artist began to overcome agoraphobia and enter the world.
Kimball Anderson - Inside/Outside. July 29 - November 8, 2013.
Reception: October 3, 2013, 4pm to 7pm.
Featured during the reception is a theatrical presentation of Kimball's abstract comic "I Don't Get It" at 6 pm. The piece explores ambiguities around identity and interpersonal relationships.
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