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May 2025 — Save the Dates

ReVision Arts Summer Celebrations
2025 Theme: "What Sustains You?"

First celebration is an Exhibit Preview Party!

For our ReVision Arts member friends, artists, and patrons. Not yet on the friends, artists, and patron supporter list? Easy to sign up, click here or the button below:

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You're invited:

Thursday, July 24, 5:00–8:00pm
Casa de Esperanza Gallery (Barbara Oswald's home)

Art preview, new and old friends, art activities for all levels, over food and drinks!

Plus, play the game: What sustains you? You can vote on which of the previewed art is your favorite.

Our board president, Kathy McNutt a fabric artist from California, will join us!

Second Celebration is the Please Touch Tactile Art Exhibit at Fogue Studio and Gallery Opening Night

Saturday, September 13th, 12pm–5pm
Fogue Studio and Gallery
5519 Airport Way South, Seattle, WA 98108

View Fogue Studio's 2025 Shows

Works including complicated metal and wooden view sculptures, wire structures, and stone carvings in a variety of sizes, textures, weights, and shapes, make the tactile experience tremendously varied and rewarding.

Third Celebration is at the A/NT Gallery in Seattle Center

It's the same exhibit as Fogue Gallery and our last exhibit at Seattle Center, A/NT Gallery. Join us here for this opening too!

Saturday October 4th, 5pm–8pm
A/NT Gallery
305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA 98109

The gallery will be open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm

"Experiencing art through touch was a first for me because it allowed me to use my hands to understand the art, essentially shaping it in my mind. I have never been allowed to do that in any other art gallery! And although I felt like I was breaking long-enforced rules, I think maybe that is exactly the point," said one teenage participant.

During our recent interview, Oswald expressed, "We have five senses, art needs to be experienced with more than one sense. … For some folks with visual challenges, if they can't touch the art, how are they going to appreciate and learn about the creative process? Please Touch keeps my perspective in mind, as its 2025 location showcases the tactile art with the goal of reaching a new audience. It aims to inspire more people to think about accessibility, hopefully spurring a collective movement "towards a more accessible world."

Barbara Oswald has been the curator of the Please Touch exhibit for 10 years, and is also the founder of ReVision Arts, an arts organization whose mission statement is to "focus on artists with all types of disabling conditions and others who consider themselves underrepresented."

March 2025 — Artists of the Month: Jim Stevens and Sheri Richardson

Jim Stevens

"Just got back from National Veterans Creative Arts Festival held in Indianapolis this year where they gave me this year's Gold Medal for art. Found out there were over 6,500 entries in this year's competition and it really is humbling when thinking about the size of the competition."

— Jim Stevens

Sheri Richardson

Sheri Richardson, a long time supporter of ReVision Arts, and our Braillist for our Please Touch Exhibits would like to invite you to attend Flying Blind!, a play written by Sheri and several colleagues. ReVision Arts funded the original production from our Neighborhood Recovery Grant awarded by Arts and Culture.

Flying Blind! an original musical celebrating the blind/low vision (BLV) community will soar your way this coming May and June 2025. A cast of blind/low vision and sighted actors will bring to life the challenges, joys and heartbreak faced by people with vision impairment.

The musical weaves together short scenes, stories and songs, exploring topics such as: acquiring/losing your first guide dog; finding love, parenting, working, and navigating the world while visually impaired; as well as responding to the common misperceptions and intrusive interactions of the sighted community. The musical also includes amusing sketches on Louis Braille, the iPhone, and American currency!

Flying Blind! performances will take place at the West of Lenin Theatre in the Fremont neighborhood in Seattle, on May 30, 31st, June 1, 6, 7, 8th 2025.

For tickets, go to https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6637934.

March 2025 — Call for Proposals for Please Touch Exhibition 2025

Theme: What Sustains You?

In these uncertain times, it is more important than ever to wrap around our diverse artists and provide accessible venues supporting the power of art.

Our work helps many people through the tactile experience of art that increases awareness, empathy, and provides windows into different experiences of being. The most important aspect of our work in ReVision Arts is to increase connection and build strong and resilient relationships within multiple communities.

We invite you to connect.

To be in the resilient strength of community.

To be moved and touched by the power of tactile art.

Please join us!

ReVision Arts will be accepting submissions for our annual tactile art exhibition, Please Touch, which will take place at Fogue Studios & Gallery, September 2025, and at A/NT Gallery in the Seattle Center, October 2025.

This year we will be accepting 15–17 artists. If you are an artist, or know an artist, who might be interested in submitting artwork for this juried show, please encourage them to participate!

For this juried exhibition we are asking artists to create new work on the theme of "What Sustains You".

What keeps you going, brings joy, or helps you get up in the morning? What motivates you to create art that sustains a creative practice, and challenges you to explore new ideas

How will you communicate your ideas in a way that others will feel? How will tactile aspects of your work connect with participants who come to the show to touch the art?

To apply to be a participating artist:

Proposal submission due April 17

1. Submit proposal for consideration addressing the theme of "What Sustains You". Include a detailed description of your concept and how you will use materials knowing, that the work will be handled by the audience
2. Artists should submit NEW work:
   • Send 3 JPEG images that show examples of work you consider tactile
   • Attach these in an email to boswald.revisionarts@gmail.com.
   • Label photos with LastName_FirstName_title
3. Materials and size:
   • Pedestals and tables are available for sculptural work
   • Maximum size is 36" for wall mounted work
   • Maximum size is 24"h x 18w/d for sculptures
4. $25 submission fee:
   • Submission fee can be paid online at Zeffy

Artists will be notified no later than May 8th, for their proposal acceptance.

Artists will be asked to submit the final work (including jpeg images) on July 16 for a tactile review by the blind jurors.

Final decisions of accepted work will be made by July 23.

The Please Touch Show will be installed at the Fogue Studios & Gallery Sept 2-3.

Georgetown’ ART ATTACK will be held the second Saturday of the month, Sept 13th from 5:00–9:00.

Please Touch will be transferred Sept 29th–30th to be the October Public Benefit Show ay A/NT Gallery at Seattle Center.

Please Touch show will be at A/NT during the month of October which is Disability Awareness Month.

March 2025 — ReVision Arts’ 2025 Plans

We are getting creative and exploring for you. Here are the opportunities now available. If you want other activities and engagement- Tell us! 2025 is our year of "let's do it" and your ideas are welcome!

What we've come up with:

1. Artists & Friends program with the Ally project: participate in an exhibit, join a project/curate, financial support
2. Exhibits: Fogue Studios & Gallery, and AN/T Gallery
3. Ally's benefits include: Promotion, Highlight, Exclusive invitation Celebrating ReVision Arts community with a special wine tasting opening reception
4. And more! What would you like to do?

Join ReVision Arts in pushing art experience to a new level of understanding: touching art!

• Individual Supporter: $60/yr
• Organizational Supporter: $125/yr
• Major Supporters: $500+/yr

Big goal for 2025!

100 individuals, 25 organizations & 5 major supporters. Of course, exceeding this goal would help ReVision Arts move bigger and better with 2026 plans!

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March's featured Artist: Megan Prince

Come see, and participate in Megan’s next event:

Jean Body Engagement
Method Gallery
Sunday, March 23 from 2–6pm
106 3rd Ave S, Seattle WA

Jean Body Engagement features the continuation of Megan Prince’s Jean Bodies in which completed sculptures will be on view. A work in progress will be developed in a public engagement component in the designated space. Event attendees are invited to participate; bringing jean donations to the location and in the process of tying them together, creating one sculpture as a relic of real community and space for conversation around what reuse can look like in daily life.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

March 2025 — Newsletter

Friends of ReVision Arts

This January, Revision Art's board members created a sustainability plan. Including creating four committees to share the workload of the organization, and to set a goal for 2025.

Reflecting on how many new artist's were delighted to be included in our the King Street Station Please Touch show, and how the show provided publicity on evening magazine and Cross Cut PBS.

Our board wants to expand the opportunity to all of our supporters and patrons from the last ten years, to create community by formalizing a way to become a Friend of ReVision Arts!

Our board decided on the following categories of Friends of ReVision Arts:

• Individual Suporter: $60/yr
• Organizational Suporter: $125/yr
• or, consider being a major supporters: $500+/yr

Our goal this first year is to get a 100 individuals, 25 organizations, and five major supporters. Of course exceeding these goal would be a delight.

Will you please join us!

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Gray Sky Gallery

Speaking of organizations suporters: Gray Sky Galleries contributed artwork to our King Street Station exhibit. Laura the owner and artist, has committed to having a tactile wall at her gallery. This is an important first step beyond ReVision Arts domain, to have tactile art as a regular construct in for profit galleries.

Thank you Laura.

Why become a Friend of Revision Arts?

Friends of ReVision Arts include benefits:

• Promotion/name recognition on ReVison Arts website, social media, and other promotion
• Special wine tasting and networking event for members only, at opening reception
• and more to come!

In our daly lives we want to build community and support for each other. For ten years ReVision Arts' mission has been art for all, providing opportunities for emerging artist and providing a unique experience in allowing art to be touched by sighted, and non-sighted patrons. So becoming a Friend of ReVision Arts continues our goals and the unique experience of touching art, allowing an intimate connection that you do not get from observation alone.

Look out next week for important information for artists and upcoming opportunities with ReVision Arts!

January 2025 — Please Touch in the news!

Our recent show, Please Touch: Together, Breaking Barriers, was covered on several regional news programs:

Cascade PBS’s The Newsfeed: “Seattle art show invites visitors to look - and touch”

KING 5’s Evening: “ At this Seattle exhibition, you can look at the art and feel it, too”

January 2025 — Please Touch: Together, Breaking Barriers!

ReVision Arts held a three-month tactile art exhibit at King Street Station (303 S Jackson St, in Seattle, WA). The show, Please Touch: Together, Breaking Barriers, ran from October to January 2025.

This special exhibit gave invited artists a venue and opportunity to share their tactile art while introducing patrons to the concept of Please Touch and allowing them to engage with art as the kind of tactile experience that is rarely encouraged or even allowed. Please Touch improves art access for blind, low vision, and sighted patrons, by providing awareness and accessibility.

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