Patricia Bérubé: Making Art More Accessible

2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar Patricia Bérubé has written an article in The Conversation focusing on the way artists and art museums are starting to make art more accessible by using multisensory mediation tools.

“When museums and art institutions work to make artefacts and artworks accessible to broader audiences, they can help raise awareness and encourage respectful social interactions.”

The full article is available here.

Patricia Bérubé is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University. Her research interests revolve around issues of accessibility and renewal of the museum discourse for audiences living with vision disabilities.