Multi Sensory Mural Project in the Clifton Neighborhood
This Could Be the Start of Something Big
Project Overview
Louisville Visual Art is working with the Kentucky School for the Blind Charitable Foundation, local and national partners, and Artist Liz Richter to realize Richter’s concept for a public artwork in Louisville’s Clifton neighborhood (home of the Kentucky School for the Blind and the American Printing House for the Blind) that is sensory accessible to the blind and visually impaired. With input from the blind and visually impaired community and residents of Clifton, the artwork will feature a colorful ceramic mosaic depicting prominent buildings and locations in Clifton, intertwined with images of native plants and flowers. The work will be installed on a curved, sculptural “wall” of Richter’s design, which has already been erected in Clifton’s Banks Common. In addition to the tactile nature of the artwork itself, various accessibility provisions, including on-site Braille descriptions and online verbal descriptions, will allow blind and visually impaired people to engage with and appreciate the project.
Not only people who are blind and visually impaired, but many others who sense or move differently, and who have powerful responses to public spaces or opportunities for interaction deserve to be considered in plans and designs for public art.