The University
Record, July 3, 2000
Photo Stories: Visually impaired students challenged by ceramics
project
This pottery piece is among a number
made by children from Detroit’s Upshaw Institute for the Blind. The
students were aided in their creative efforts by visiting artist Yohei
Nishimura, who has been teaching ceramics to visually impaired students
for the past 20 years at the School for the Blind in the Chiba Prefecture
of Japan. One of the challenges the students met was to make something
that feels like the wind. Assistant Professor of Art Sahashi Inuzka, who
is visually impaired, will study in Japan this summer to enhance his
skills in teaching the blind. Photo by Marcia L. Ledford, U-M Photo
Services
