Touching Color, Listening to Imagination
This Heart features bold, abstract blocks of color with rich, varied textures, inviting touch as a way for views to experience its composition beyond sight. At it's center rests a tactile sphere with Braille offering a personal excerpt from a recorded conversation between BeiBei, Lisa and Katy, accessed via QR code, expands the piece into sound, encouraging audiences to explore art through multiple senses.
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Artist Spotlight
Lisa Cowan/Bei Bei
Originally from China, spent her first 17 years in an orphanage before being adopted and moving to Kansas City in January 2024. BeiBei is completely blind and is now a student and the Kansas School for the Blind. Having never been exposed to anything art related she is now interested in exploring color (through relational methods), texture and artmaking through touch brings a distinctive and imaginative perspective to the collaborative project.
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