The internet is an amazing platform for artists to grow audiences, connect with collaborators, strengthen a creative community, and show and sell work. Your online presence may unintentionally be preventing access to your art. If photographs of your work omit a caption and alternative text explaining the content of the image, people with visual impairment will not know what content you are showing, let alone be driven to engage with it. Embracing basic web accessibility practices into the way you show your work online, can expand your audience and create a more inclusive digital space to engage with your art.

In this hour-long virtual training, Dr. Cheryl Fogle-Hatch founder of MuseumSenses will give an introduction to making your art online more accessible, including how to create effective alternative text for images on your website, in your Baker portfolio, or on social media. Alt-text is now required for images uploaded to the Baker Artist Portfolios, but are you using this field in a way that maximizes viewership and accessibility?

This free session will take place over zoom on Wednesday, March 27th at 12pm, and is open to Baltimore-area artists of all disciplines. Artists with Baker Artist Portfolios are encouraged to attend, if they are able. Click here to RSVP for this session.

About Dr. Cheryl Fogle-Hatch:
Cheryl Fogle-HatchPh.D. created MuseumSenses to showcase her work in researching and developing multisensory experiences in galleries, museums, and other cultural organizations. She believes that creating exhibit content with tactile and audio components has the potential to fully engage people who are blind with a broad range of topics. Furthermore, exposing people who are sighted to tactile and audio content creates an integrated experience for all visitors.