Everyday: An Accessible Art Event Opening Reception
"Everyday" refers to what is routine, typical, ordinary. Yet what is ordinary to some is profoundly alienating to others. How can one describe the everyday as an all-inclusive term when every person is different? In order to achieve inclusion and maximum accessibility in all places, spaces, and things, we must render the familiar strange; reimagine what “everyday” means. Further, how can everyday be communicated within artistic spaces, museums, and cultural institutions? The Accessible Art Event aims to explore the “everyday” through the practice of art.
Continuing our work in previous years, the event is tasked with the idea of merging accessibility with art through collaborations across MSU (students of all levels as well as staff and faculty) and the community. Though both the practicalities of maximizing accessibility in the museum space and the art itself, you’ll find tactile art (yes, you can touch most of the art), braille descriptions, audio descriptions, low stimulation hours, and more. Visit MSU’s Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab’s page for additional programming information. On view Tuesday, April 9 – Friday, April 12 during Art Lab open hours (12–4pm). Together we are trying to conceptualize and reimagine what “everyday” means within art.
Held at the Art Lab, located directly across the street from the museum at 565 E Grand River Ave., East Lansing, MI 48823.
