The NEBA Touring Virtual Museum

NEBA has exhibited in more than twenty-five prestigious museums and galleries over the past thirty years in America and abroad. NEBA has given serious consideration to the cost and risk of shipping an exhibition from museum to museum throughout a yearlong tour. In this burgeoning electronic age, we believe now is the time to make a bold move from limited physical space to cyberspace -- from the traditional museum to the Virtual Museum.

The Virtual Museum Tour is targeting the following populations:

• Sighted Public. One of NEBA's purposes is to break down the stereotypical view of a blind artist creating only three-dimensional work such as sculpture, and not two-dimensional work such as painting. Although ten percent (10%) of the blind community is totally blind, 90% have limited visual perception or limited field of vision and may have the ability to create two-dimensional art. NEBA aims to demonstrate to the public the value and excitement of art by the blind, thus helping to create a market for this work.
  

• Blind Community. Many visually impaired artists began losing their sight after they were old enough to be out of the educational system. NEBA is eager to reach out to members of the blind community to  encourage them to pursue a calling in art or to resume a career in art that may have been interrupted by the trauma of a visual disability.
  

• Blindness Professionals. Many blindness professionals and  educators still retain the stereotypical view that art and blindness do not mix. NEBA seeks to enlighten those who influence the self-concepts of the blind.
  

• Gallery Owners/Museum Professionals. By means of the Virtual Museum Tour, it is our intention to offer wide exposure to artwork by blind artists with the intention of expanding the market for sales.