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Visual Spectrums is a collaborate art project who is currently reaching out to artists, community members of those experiencing visual loss and art appreciators of all kinds of visual abilities to create an exhibit that will travel throughout Iowa in fall 2025. 

“I would like this to be a highly collaborative endeavor that connects artists with audience members so that together they can examine how they might transform visual works and exhibition spaces to reach people who may have written off the visual arts as not being an area applicable to them,” founder Jocelyn Engman.

Visual Spectrums is founded by writer Jocelyn Engman, J.A. Engman, residing in Fairfield and Cheryl Weatherford, an artist as well as teacher in the Iowa City area.  Jocelyn has a personal experience with vision loss. She disengaged from the visual arts years ago due to eyesight impairment and finds herself missing the gallery and museum visits she once enjoyed in her days of better vision.  

Jocelyn and Cheryl started talking about writing a grant proposal to create a visual arts exhibit to explore how people with vision loss might reengage with the visual arts.  Visual Spectrums is supported by the 2025 Big Field Fund, a program of Public Space One. Funding is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

         

Jocelyn Engman, J.A. Engman (left) and Cheryl Weatherford (right)        

Interested Iowans are invited to join the Visual Spectrums collaborative arts project as an artist, an arts appreciator, community supporter, host the exhibit as a venue or sponsor us to support artists and community members experiencing vision loss in Iowa.

More information along with forms to fill out for the needed collaborations can be found on their website, visualspectrums.org. All questions can be answered via email by the Visual Spectrums team at hello@visualspectrums.org or by calling 319-541-1676.