This October, Miami Children’s Museum will participate in an international initiative to promote art by and for people with vision loss and other disabilities, and to encourage multimodal approaches to education and creativity. Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month, organized by Art Education for the Blind (AEB) and its more than 200 partners around the world, recognizes that exposure to the arts and cultural institutions is crucial for the advancement of many key issues in the education and rehabilitation of people with vision loss and other disabilities.
Each Saturday in October, from 2-3PM, MCM will be doing art projects in our studio for children of all ages who are visually impaired along with any others who would like to join in. Among their fun projects, MCM will be using multiple sensory activities such as fruit and vegetable prints, Japanese gyotaku fish printing, as well as an activity relating to music and art to help students identify the similarities between the two.
The Miami Children’s Museum is located at 980 MacArthur Causeway, on Watson Island in Miami, FL. Admission is $15 for adults and children, $12 for Florida Residents, free for children under 1 year and admission for Members is complimentary. For more information contact the Museum at 305.373.KIDS (5437) or visit www.miamichildrensmuseum.org.