Course Schedule

• Getting to know you
• Syllabus overview
• Goals & guidelines for presenting work in class & giving feedback 
• Lecture: Accessibility As Creative Practice – what does it mean? Intro to the Aesthetics of Access 
• Lecture: Captions

1. Read: Demystifying Disability : What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally, Emily Ladau (1991) Intro & Ch. 1 
   Plain language version
   NYU Library
2. Read: “Highlighting Disabled Experience through an Interdisciplinary and Socially Engaged Art Project,” Molly Joyce and Sandy Guttman in Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation
3. Read: Alison O’Daniel’s text How To Caption 
4. Set up your process blog
5. Sign up to lead a Creative Practice workshop (link to google sheet)

• Field Trip!
  Emilie L. Gossiaux’s solo show, Other Worlding

1. Read: Getting In Touch with Images , Chancey Fleet
2. Read: Life: A Tactile Comic, by Philipp Meyer (2013) 

• Student Presentations: Assignments #1 & 2
• Lecture: Spandita Sarmah
• Lecture:  Plain Language Writing 

1. Watch:  After… After… Access, Jordan Lord
2. Watch: A Recipe for Disaster , Carolyn Lazard

Assignment #2: Lo-Fi or Hi-Fi Tactile Graphics 

• Student Presentations: Assignments #2 & #3
• Lecture: Hi-Fi Tactile Graphics with Yuhua (Coco) Cao
• Lecture: Audio Description 

1. Read: Disability as Method: Interventions in the Habitus of Ableism through Media-Creation, Arseli Dokumaci
2. Watch: “Disability as a Method of Creative Practice: Audio Description as Blind Intervention”, a research-creation video by Arseli Dokumaci (2018)
3. Phyllis Baldino, Absence is Present: Dead Nature in the Dark (2010) https://misreading.eai.org/

• Student Presentations: Assignment #4
• Creative Audio Description & Dance

1. Read: A New Model for Access in the Museum, Carmen Papalia
   1. • Reading response in your blog!
        • A brief summary – what was it about?
        • One takeaway – a professional insight you draw from the reading, and that you think will be useful to keep in mind in the near or distant future
        • Connection to a real-world example – this could be something you thought of while reading, something that is similar that reminds you of something in the field, a connection to another reading/discussion from class
        • A burning question that remains with you after reading

• Student Presentations: Assignment #5
• Lecture: Touch Objects
• Creative Practice Workshops # 1 & 2

1. Read: “Understanding Accessible Interpretation through Touch Object Practices in Museums” Race, et al. 
2. Lenora Rosenfield, Relief (2018)
3. “Co-designing Access: A New Approach to Cultures of Inclusion in Museums and Galleries”, Ch. 14 in Curating Access: Disability Art, Activism and Creative Accommodation, Amanda Cachia, ed. (library link here)

• Student Presentations: Touch Object Prototypes
• UnseenSound, Andy Slater
• Creative Practice Workshop #1 & 3

1. The Art of Touch: Lending a Hand to the Sighted Majority, Georgina Kleege

• Student Presentations: Assignment #6 & #7
• Guest Lecture: Annie Leist, MOMA 
• Creative Practice Workshop #4

1. Read: Audio Description: Art or Access?

• Guest Visitor:  Multimodal Art Installation – Cathy Cook 
• Getting started on Final Show Design

1. Read “Against Access,” John Lee Clark
   Question: How do Lee’s thoughts about transgression, translation & transformation relate to our work in this class?
   
2. Be sure to sign up to sit in on one of ArtShare’s workshops, in preparation for our class on 4/4 

• Guest visitors: HeartShare

1. Read: Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and A Practice, Carolyn Lazard

• Creative Practice Workshop #5 & 6: Joanne & Xinran
• Final Project Roundtable – prototypes, determine access needs
• Reading Discussion 

• Creative Practice Workshop #7 & 8: Angie & Sophie Ana
• Final Show Design Workshop

1. Read: Blind Photographers: Vision, Accessibility, and Empowerment in the Museum

• Friday, April 26th Install
• Monday April 29 Show Opens

• Friday May 3 Party! Invite everybody!