Stories of Inclusion: Responding to
Visitors who are Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Blind or with Low Vision
Presented in collaboration with the
Education Committee (EdCom)and Diversity Committee (DivCom), Professional
Networks of the American Alliance of Museums. Supported by the Coalition to
Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries and Museums, a project of the Institute
of Museum and Library Services (IMLS); and the Museum Access Consortium, New
York (MAC) This project was supported in part by a grant from IMLS. Any views,
finding, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not
necessarily represent those of IMLS.
In this webcast, accessibility
experts and advocates explore the issues, challenges and successes of addressing
the needs and expectations of visitors and other facility or program users who
are deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind or with low vision.
Presenters
Eileen
Bagnall, executive director, VSA
Arizona; Kris Johnson, program
coordinator, Indiana School for the Deaf, Indianapolis; founder and coordinator,
Access Indy, Cultural Heritage Resource Center, Indiana University – Purdue
University Indianapolis (IUPUI); Hannah Goodwin, accessibility manager,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; Kat Burkhart, Executive Director & Curator, Carnegie
Museum of Montgomery County, Crawfordsville, IN; Christine Murray,
senior content designer, Antenna International, San Francisco; Liani Yirka, accessibility &
inclusion coordinator, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh,
NC; Cecile Puretz,access and
community engagement manager, Contemporary Jewish
Museum, San Francisco (co-founder of Bay Area Arts Access Collective); Michelle Arpey, information services
manager, New York State Archives, Albany; Francesca Rosenberg, director of
community and access, Museum of Modern Art, New York;
Betty Siegel, director of VSA and Accessibility,
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC; Janice
Klein, executive director, Museum Association of Arizona, Tempe; Sheri
Levinsky-Raskin, assistant vice
president, education & evaluation, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New
York, NY