Touch the Art, Be My Eyes: award-winning blind artist appeals to multiple senses

Touch the Art, Be My Eyes: award-winning blind artist appeals to multiple senses

Award-winning blind artist Ruth Bieber featured at McMillan Arts Centre in Parksville

My Artistic Journey in a Broken Body

I have long loved drawing– from sketches and stick figures on printer paper, to brightly-colored and patterned characters and backgrounds melded not-so-seamlessly together on cheap drawing apps, to the more sophisticated designs of my adult life I have had people pay money for. I do not say this to sound dramatic, but I have also long had the cards stacked against me regarding my ability to put pen to paper and stylus to screen. Born with a cata…