Join professor of art and visual culture Ingrid Lilligren from 5–7 p.m. Tuesday, June 11 for an exciting gallery tour as she unveils her Tactile Meditation exhibition at the Grinnell Museum of Art! The tour will take place in conjunction with an opening reception. Tactile Meditation features 18 projects created by Lilligren and touches on subjects including beauty, meditation and climate change.

She incorporates Braille into her pieces as a means to explore social, cultural and political blindness. Using this visual language can give sighted viewers the experience of being temporarily “othered.” Several works have words in Braille carved into or embossed onto the forms, and some use tiles or pegs to spell out the statement. Poems by Debra Marquart, Distinguished Professor of English, and outgoing Poet Laureate of Iowa, are referenced in three pieces.

Lilligren’s artwork will be on display through Sunday, Sept. 8.