Beyond Sight

Name: Beyond Sight
Start: 2025-10-03T17:00:00-05:00
Location: The Medium, A Place to Create

Schedule

Fri, 03 Oct, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Medium, A Place to Create | Springdale, AR

Beyond Sight: A Tactile Art Experience
October 3, 2025
Time: TBD
"This project is supported by the Creative Exchange Fund (CXF) at The Medium, a program that provides artists, creatives, and cultural organizers with funding and free space to experiment and take bold risks. Learn more at themedium.art/cxf."
Explore art in a whole new way — with your hands, your ears, and even your nose!
Join artist Lena Regina for Beyond Sight, a unique tactile art show designed to engage visitors of all abilities. This immersive exhibition invites you to touch, play with, and experience a variety of interactive artworks that challenge how we see and understand the world.
Featured pieces include:
🎨 Starry Night: A textured, glowing reimagining of Starry Night, alive with lights, motors, and sound you activate with buttons.
👁️ Eyes Everywhere: Playful plastic egg halves with glow-in-the-dark googly eyes, exploring the feeling of being watched or unseen.
🌀 Tension: A hands-on experiment with stretched rubber bands in geometric and chaotic patterns.
🌱 Sprung: Bright, springy pipe cleaners inviting you to pull and play.
🎨 Pom Pom Garden: A soft, colorful field of pom poms with a variety of textures to explore.
🧸 Too Much: A whimsical, chaotic collage of toys commenting on childhood and consumerism.
🍎 Still Life Reimagined: Plastic play food arranged for a tactile take on classic still life art.
🌸 Magnetic Flower Vase: Create your own flower arrangements with magnetic, tactile blossoms.
🖼️ Scratch and Sniff Series: A multi-sensory adventure with scents that surprise and delight.
🔮 The Birdcage: A large-scale installation capturing the contrast between the magical outside world and the disorienting experience of blindness.
…and more interactive surprises to spark your senses and imagination!
Why Beyond Sight?
This show invites everyone, whether sighted, blind, or visually impaired, to experience art through touch, sound, and scent. It’s a celebration of accessibility, creativity, and the joy of discovery beyond what meets the eye.
Who should come?
Families, educators, artists, people of all abilities, and anyone curious about new ways to experience art.
Accessibility:
The exhibit is fully tactile and designed with sensory engagement and wheelchair accessibility in mind.
"This project is supported by the Creative Exchange Fund (CXF) at The Medium, a program that provides artists, creatives, and cultural organizers with funding and free space to experiment and take bold risks. Learn more at themedium.art/cxf."