Title of exhibit: "Touched"
Event: First Friday, June 6, 5-8 p.m.
The Envision Arts Gallery is honored to present Touched, an exhibition of artwork by the artists and students from the Braille Institute of America. These artworks span multiple artistic mediums—including ceramics, printmaking, and mosaic—created by students from Braille Institute’s Creative Arts Program. The exhibition invites visitors to experience how creativity and personal expression thrive beyond sight, offering an inspiring reflection on resilience, individuality, joy and artistic voice.
The featured works were created in Braille Institute’s Creative Arts Program, which has a long-standing legacy rooted not only in the brilliance of the final artwork but in the creative process itself. Coping with vision loss is a personal and unique journey, and the Creative Arts Program offers students a space to express their individual voices and visions without the need for physical sight. Through artmaking, they reclaim agency over form and function. By providing equitable access to creative disciplines that traditionally rely on visual experience, the program fosters experiential learning, problem-solving, and creative play; the students develop sensory awareness, hand-mind coordination, critical thinking, and self-confidence.
About Braille Institute
Braille Institute is a non-profit organization that has been positively transforming the lives of those with vision loss for 106 years. Braille Institute helps more than 13,000 adults, youth, and children annually, through a broad range of educational, social, and recreational services. Programming is offered at seven Southern California centers and remotely through online delivery across the United States and beyond. All programs are free of charge thanks to the generous support of donors, volunteers, and staff.
BrailleInstitute.org
First Friday, June 6th
5:00 - 8:00 PM
801 E. Douglas Ave, Suite 106
Wichita, Kansas 67202
The Envision Arts Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (closed for lunch 12:00-1:00 PM).
Free and open to the public
On display June 6th through August 29th in the Dr. Gail Yearick and Family Gallery