Museum of Outdoor Arts
Greenwood Village, Colorado
MOA is an outdoor museum. It has an outdoor art collection of nearly 100 pieces of art, ranging from sculpture to murals. We also host a variety of art events.
MessageMy art is not just about my ideas and concepts, it is also about the abilities and experiences of the people who interact with my work. For me, a work of art is completed when people engage with it. I base my work upon this belief.
What drives me is that by changing the experience of art engagement by encouraging a more complete sensory experience we can learn more about ourselves and how we fit into the world. Tactile/visual art also expands our understand of how others with sensory differences effectively approach the world using alternative methods. It’s fun to discover new ways to see!
I am dedicated to making information about the world more accessible for people who are blind or visually impaired. If we can make access to information available, I feel, it is our responsibility to do just that and it can be intriguing visual artwork at the same time.
My work has been evolving through the years. Twenty years ago, when I first made the decision to make my work tactually accessible I sacrificed the visual in favor of the tactile when I came up against a design conflict that I couldn’t resolve. Gradually I found that by making my visual art more poetic, by streamlining and eliminating visual clutter, I was no longer running into visual/tactile design conflicts.
As I progress into my next stage of work it will include sound. I have recently been working with some computer scientists and I can see that an audio element is going to become an important part of my design in the future. I am happy to be on this exciting journey and am looking forward to see where this road takes me. I would like to welcome you all along for the ride.
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