Look and Listen

Biography

I have worked as an Orientation and Mobility Instructor for the Blind since 1971. With the exception of student teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area, my entire career has been in Mendocino County, on California’s Morth Coast. I pioneered the use of the white cane with blind students who are very young or who have multiple impairments, and have presented my techniques at State conferences of the CA Association of Orientation & Mobility Specialists. I received a BA from the University of California in Berkeley and an MA at San Francisco State University. I am also an award winning visual artist, and have written articles for textile art magazines.

Inspiration

My students have taught me to view all the layers of the world and not just what I see. This idea has impacted my work as a visual artist. Writing allows me to combine those two parts of my world: the visually seen and the tactile/auditory world. My wonderful students have taught me more about life and the world around us than I have ever taught them about navigating in that world.