Carmen Papalia’s walking tour, workshop, collaborative performance, public intervention, museum project, and art object is a temporary system of access—a gesture that contributes to a productive understanding of accessibility. As an open- sourcing of his own access, his work makes visible the opportunities for learning and knowing that become available through the non-visual senses. It is a chance to unlearn looking and to take one's first few steps into a non-visual world.

This yearlong series was inspired by the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The series is organized by MFA in Curatorial Practice, with support from Graduate Studies, Office of Student Affairs, Student Activities Office, and the Mixed Media Speaker Series, and curated by Samantha Redles ’15 (Curatorial Practice MFA). The Office of Community Engagement provided American Sign Language interpreters.