12TH Annual Please Touch Exhibit

Often art galleries and museum post signs or have guards to make sure patrons Do Not Touch the art or even get too close. This exhibit is the opposite. The art in the Please Touch Exhibit is just that: Please Touch it and have the tactile experience with the pieces.

ReVision Arts has a different approach to the definition of art. Believing in the concept of “Art for All,” it is an inclusive organization that brings together people of all abilities to celebrate art. ReVision Arts focusses on artists with all types of disabling conditions, and other artists who consider themselves underrepresented.

The 2026 exhibits (yes...there are two exhibits), which will also include audio description, will be on display through the month of October (Disability Awareness Month).  Patrons can visit the 12th Annual Please Touch Exhibits at Fogue Gallery and Studios, in the Georgetown neighborhood, and at Gray Sky Gallery, in Pioneer Square.  Check the ReVision Arts website, www.revisionarts.org, for more information, including addresses for each exhibit.  Make sure to visit both of them - as they will be featuring different art and artists.

Art pieces are open for patrons to touch and experience on a level that usually doesn’t happen. First time sighted patrons are offered eye covers to expand their horizons with this tactile art experience.

Barbara Oswald, Director of ReVision Arts, is the founder of the Please Touch Exhibit concept and has produced and curated the chosen art since its inception. As an artist with visual challenges Barbara uses her lack of acuity to compose artwork that draws the audience to her work, whether in fabric design, 3D sculpture or 2D photography and painting, moving the narrative from what art looks like to what it feels like. This approach offers visitors a multi-sensory relationship with participant artists’ artwork.

“This is a very exciting year!" explains Barbara, “We are expanding our number of exhibits during Disability Awareness Month and partnering with two new galleries:  Fogue Gallery and Studios and Gray Sky Gallery.  Our hope is that they will then host their own tactile art exhibits in the future. Then in years to come, ReVision Arts can partner with even more galleries to guide them in hosting their own tactile exhibits.  Because our goal is to have 'Art for All!' "