When you think about art, what comes to mind? Maybe your favorite artist or a favorite piece. Perhaps you thought about a specific art movement or a medium. Regardless, art comes in many different forms, but no matter how you answer there is most definitely one rule that you must follow regardless of the medium. No matter how much you may want to, don’t touch it. Usually, there may even be something between you and the piece that keeps you from touching it.

But what if you were supposed to touch the art? At the Shared Visions Exhibition, you can do just that. 

Located in the ACC’s Colorado Gallery of the Arts the show is celebrating its 10th anniversary and will be available to check out until the 4th of December. The show was created with the intent to make art accessible to the blind, as well as encourage viewers to think of art beyond the canvas. to make the exhibit as accessible as possible each artwork is displayed with a label that describes the piece’s look, function, and meaning that is translated in both English and braille.

Organized by two ACC professors, Nathan Ables, and Katie Carons, the Shared Visions art show is an annual collaboration between ACC’s Art & Design Students and Colorado’s Center for the Blind. In this show, art students are challenged to make art geared specifically toward their sense of touch instead of sight.

“You never know what there’s going to be,” Max || one of this year’s participating artists says. 

Each year features a completely new gallery with its own set of unique ceramics, sculptures and other such mixed media pieces, as well as a number of pots and sculptures from the ceramics program that the Center of the Blind offers for their members. It is a fantastic opportunity for the blind to be able to experience art.

Currently, the exhibit is celebrating its official 10th anniversary