WAUSAU — The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum received in December a $3,000 grant from the Green Bay Packers Foundation to support a tactile exhibition, which will give visitors a new way to “see” by touching.
“The Woodson Art Museum is grateful to receive a 2018 award, and we look forward to welcoming visitors of all interests – football and art – to experience our tactile exhibition, debuting in early 2019,” said Woodson Art Museum director Kathy Kelsey Foley in a Woodson news release.
The exhibition is designed to comprise touchable artworks from the Woodson Art Museum’s collection and will encourage all visitors to experience the sculptures through touch. Also, the tactile exhibition will be enhanced by accessible interpretive materials, including braille labels and a listening device for use by visitors with blindness or visual impairments. Museum educators and curators are working with consultant and sculptor Ann Cunningham, who teaches at the Colorado Center for the Blind, to develop the exhibition, the Woodson said in the news release.
The Green Bay Packers Foundation awarded $800,000 to 230 Wisconsin civic and charitable groups during its annual distribution of grants.
“We’re proud to recognize these outstanding recipient organizations, who are all doing incredible work in our communities,” Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy said at an awards event. “As a community-owned team, we are inspired by the efforts of these organizations and the positive impact they have on those that they serve.”
For more information about the grants, visit packers.com/community/packers-foundation.
