DECATUR — Featuring nearly 50 unique pieces of art created by children with vision and hearing disabilities, the annual Helen Keller Art Show of Alabama is underway.
The traveling juried art show runs through Sept. 14 in the Walking Gallery at Decatur’s Alabama Center for the Arts. The exhibit highlights works by students throughout Alabama who have visual impairments, blindness, and/or deafness and blindness.
The show is free and open to the public.
They students use a variety of media to create their masterpieces, which are available for purchase, as a donation, starting at $100. Proceeds go toward the costs of framing, the opening reception, scholarships, and summer workshops.
The arts are included in the students’ academic curriculum in areas such as the development of communication skills utilizing visual and tactical abilities, math, science, reading, and leisure-time activities.
For more than 20 years, the Helen Keller Art Show has been hosted by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the University of Alabama – Birmingham Vision Science Research Center and Education Outreach Module. The show travels throughout Alabama to eight museums over the course of the year.
The ACA is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. to noon.
