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Faces Behind the Screen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Bramblitt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

John Bramblitt<\/a><\/strong> is an internationally recognized artist living in Denton, Texas, whose work has been sold in over 120 countries. He has appeared on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, ABC, NBC, FOX, Discovery Channel, and BBC Radio and TV, has been featured in The New York Times<\/strong><\/a> and Psychology Today, and is the subject of the award-winning documentary shorts Line of Sight<\/em><\/a><\/strong> and Bramblitt<\/em>. John is also blind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Currently, John works as a museum consultant in developing programs designed to include everyone, no matter their ability or disability. He has received three Presidential Service Awards for his innovative art workshops, which span the gap between beginning and professional artists and include adaptive techniques for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John is the author of the award-winning book Shouting in the Dark<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, which tells the story of his life and journey navigating blindness and how he ultimately rekindles his joy, passion, and relationships through art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on to learn more about John\u2019s journey and work. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Part One<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do you identify as blind or low vision?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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JOHN BRAMBLITT: It depends on who I\u2019m speaking to. If it\u2019s people who don\u2019t know a lot about blindness, I\u2019ll just say blind. If it\u2019s people that do, then I\u2019ll say visually impaired. But either is fine with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you explain how and when you lost your vision? What was that process and transition like?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

JOHN BRAMBLITT: I was born with epilepsy and have had seizures all my life. When I was a pre-teen, I got Lyme disease. Since I was having a lot of trouble with seizures, the Lyme disease went undiagnosed for years and caused nerve damage. I then started having these seizures called status epilepticus, which would stop my breathing. The seizures damaged the occipital lobe in my brain, where vision happens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, we didn\u2019t think of it as a vision problem; we just thought it was a problem with my epilepsy and that if we could get the seizures under control, then everything would be okay. But when I was in college, I had more massive seizures that caused more damage to the occipital lobe, and it became apparent my vision was damaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April of 2001, I went to a low vision specialist for the first time. My vision was 20 over 400, which is twice the legal limit for blindness. A couple of months later, it was 20 over 800. Within a month of that, they couldn\u2019t measure my vision anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be honest, even though I\u2019d been having trouble with vision, whenever my doctor told me I was blind and that it was only going to get worse, I felt like I was punched in the stomach. I honestly felt like they would tell me they had a magic pill or treatment. But when they said my vision was gone and wouldn\u2019t come back, it was the worst feeling. When I first lost my eyesight, I thought it made me different from everyone. I felt very isolated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I came to learn over the years that everybody has something in life that seems insurmountable. So, instead of blindness making me different from everyone else, I think it made me more like everyone else because we all have a problem. We all have this thing that we have to deal with in life. It might not be a disability, but everyone has some huge, insurmountable challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a neat perspective and an amazing way to look at it. Everybody has something, whether it\u2019s known to others or not.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

JOHN BRAMBLITT: It\u2019s almost harder if you have a hidden disability. If you have epilepsy, then you can sort of pass. Nobody knows you have a disability, so you might be concerned it\u2019ll come out. I work at camps with a lot of children who have epilepsy. When the kids go to camp and meet other children with epilepsy, a hidden disability, it\u2019s like the world opens up, and they realize they don\u2019t have to keep it private anymore. If they have a seizure, the world won\u2019t break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some ways, I think having a visual disability is sometimes easier. When you see me out in public and I have my guide dog or white cane, everybody knows I\u2019m blind. So, automatically, people deal with it, and you don\u2019t have that fear of coming out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is the most common mistake sighted people make when interacting with someone who is blind or has low vision?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

JOHN BRAMBLITT: It\u2019s that they think we can\u2019t do anything. When I was a college student and lost my eyesight, I was able to stay in school. I was at a very progressive university, and I was getting \u201cincompletes\u201d in classes. While I was learning how to use a white cane, I also learned to use screen readers, Braille, and all the other stuff I needed to know. I needed someone to guide me to classes, but I was proficient enough with a white cane to take myself to class after a year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes I would walk alone to a coffee shop, and when I would stand at the counter with my cane, somebody would ask, \u201cHow\u2019d you get here?\u201d And I would think, well, I used the sidewalk. It wouldn\u2019t even occur to me that they were asking how I could go down the street and find the coffee shop as a visually impaired person. I got that a lot at first. After a while, people got used to it, but I travel a lot now, so it\u2019s still surprising sometimes. People just don\u2019t expect you to be able to do the most basic things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many times, people get their ideas about what people with disabilities are like from movies, which is the worst place to get your information. In movies, when someone loses their eyesight, they don\u2019t remember anything. Their mother can walk into the room, and they\u2019re like, Mom, is that you? You\u2019ve heard this person your entire life. You know who it is. It\u2019s so funny, but it can be frustrating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would you say is the best thing about being visually impaired?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

JOHN BRAMBLITT: My art changed when I lost my sight. I was always very visually oriented, but I didn\u2019t paint before losing my eyesight, I just drew. I loved to draw. When I was sighted, if I could do a drawing of someone and the drawing looked like the person, it was a good drawing. But after I lost my eyesight, it needed to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I started getting back into art again, I wanted my drawings to look like the person, but it was more important it felt like the person. I was so interested in perception. For example, if a family member of yours walked into a crowded room, everybody would see the same person. They would see the clothes they\u2019re wearing, their haircut, they would hear them talking. Everybody would get the same information about that person. But what they thought and felt about the person could be completely different, and I thought that was so interesting because it\u2019s the same visually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also didn\u2019t use color or paint before losing my eyesight. But after losing my sight, the colors had to get brighter and explosive because I had to show emotion and ideas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many people would consider painting such a visual art, so what senses or techniques do you use instead of vision?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

JOHN BRAMBLITT: Sense of touch. After I learned how to use a white cane, I thought, well, if I can use my sense of touch to go down these sidewalks and cross streets without getting hit by a car or knocking over too many people, then surely I can get across something much smaller like a canvas if I use the same techniques. So I used the orientation and mobility techniques you use with a white cane or a guide dog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I draw, I use a special paint that dries fast. When I first started, I had to use giant thick lines to feel them because my sense of touch hadn\u2019t developed much. But now I use much thinner paint that I can still touch and feel. It almost feels like rubber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re a sighted artist, you only use your eyes for a couple of things. One is to know where you are and see where you\u2019re putting the paint down, and the other is to see where you\u2019ve been, everywhere that you\u2019ve put the paint. If you\u2019re blind, you use your sense of touch to do that for all aspects of life, so it\u2019s the same thing on a canvas. Whenever I make a line on a canvas, I can touch and feel where that line is, and then I can feel where I want to put another line. I use one hand to do the work that my eyes would do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I mix the paint, which I came up with to make each color feel different. Paint is made of sticky stuff that holds the paint together, which is called a medium, and that\u2019s what the paint feels like. And the color for the paint is pigment. So you\u2019ve got the sticky stuff of paint, and then you\u2019ve got the color of paint, and you can mix different mediums into paint to make it feel different. I can mix a white so it feels like toothpaste or a black so it\u2019s oily and runny. If I want to make a color halfway between that, a gray, I can mix for a texture right between the two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I lost my eyesight, it didn\u2019t occur to me that I could draw again. It took a year for the idea to even cross my mind. When I started, I was drawing simple things like squares, circles, and triangles. I couldn\u2019t do any shading or blending. But over the last 20 years, you can see my progression of learning how to blend and use shadows and more colors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more I painted, the happier I was and the brighter the colors needed to be. If you look at paintings from 2005 or 2006, they\u2019re very muddy and dark. But if you look at today\u2019s paintings, they\u2019re very bright and happy because I\u2019m a much happier person now than I was back then.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Part Two<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019d love to hear about your work as an accessibility consultant for museums.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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JOHN BRAMBLITT: I\u2019ve been working for over 10 years with museums. I started out doing painting workshops for nonprofits and loved it. Even if I was talking to people that didn\u2019t have a visual impairment, maybe they were soldiers with PTSD, children with autism, or adults with Alzheimer\u2019s, we all got each other. We knew we were dealing with challenges in our lives. I was talking to people that understood me, and it was awesome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Museums then started contacting me because they wanted to be more inclusive, so I started doing free workshops and designing programs. I\u2019ve now worked with the Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and so many others. When I first started, I had about 30 different workshops for different groups. But I then realized that if I made the workshops multi-sensory, then I didn\u2019t need a separate workshop for everyone. Everybody could have the same workshop at the same time. If you use a wheelchair, if you use a white cane, or if you don\u2019t have a disability, you use the senses you have in the way you\u2019re used to. So I started coming up with multi-sensory art workshops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ended up with museum workshops that would have a professional artist sitting next to a child who had been blind since birth, sitting next to a person who uses a wheelchair, and then maybe the next 10 people didn\u2019t have a disability. Instead of being this great chaotic mess, it worked. People had the best time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshops are also free. Art came to me when it shouldn\u2019t have, and people with disabilities often don\u2019t have the finances to try a new hobby\u2014so being able to learn for free helps. Since then, the artwork has gone to over 120 countries. I never thought anyone would ever want to see a painting of mine. I thought I was nuts to paint. I just painted to connect with people. I was so depressed and angry that I had to reach out through art, but I never thought it would work or that anybody would be on the other side of that connection. That\u2019s l why I paint. I was painting before I got on this interview with you, and I\u2019ll be painting right after. Painting is my way of connecting with people. I can\u2019t express how blessed I feel that people out there see my artwork and connect with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are there any other tools or technology besides your guide dog and white cane that you use to assist you in daily life?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

JOHN BRAMBLITT: I learned to read Braille in college. I use it for my paint tubes, but most of the reading I do is using computers with screen reader software. I also have an Amazon Alexa in every room. When I first lost my eyesight, accessible technology was so much more expensive, but now there\u2019s software on your phone that will talk to you. It\u2019s incredible what\u2019s out there now that just makes life more accessible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also use my smartphone with my guide dog. With a smart dog and a smartphone, I can do pretty much anything. I travel quite a bit, and if I\u2019m somewhere I\u2019ve never been, I can ask my phone if there\u2019s a coffee shop that I can walk to. It\u2019ll give me directions, and then I can tell my dog the directions. I can tell Eagle, my dog, to find left<\/em>, find straight<\/em>. My phone will tell me to walk 200 feet, so I\u2019ll tell Eagle forward. <\/em>If the door is on the left, I can tell Eagle to find left<\/em>, and she\u2019ll find the door. And then she\u2019ll find the counter inside and the chair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modern guide dogs are incredible, and with technology, it\u2019s just amazing. And that\u2019s something I\u2019m always trying to tell people. Most people who lose their eyesight are older, and when they have to change the habits they\u2019ve had their whole lives, it can feel like life is over. And I\u2019ll be honest, it is a huge adjustment. But once you\u2019ve made that adjustment, it\u2019s made. You\u2019re done. You\u2019ve learned the new techniques. You\u2019ve learned how to adapt. After a while, you don\u2019t even think about it. I remember the first few times at night when I would have dreams in which I was blind. I\u2019d wake up and think, oh, that was weird. For the longest time, I was sighted in my dreams. Then suddenly, my brain finally adapted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was the process of getting a guide dog and being matched with her?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

JOHN BRAMBLITT: It took about three years for my first guide dog, Echo, who\u2019s now retired. I\u2019ve had Eagle for almost three years. Your cane training has to be good to get a guide dog because you use those techniques with the guide dogs. It costs about $50,000 for guide dog school, so they want to make sure the dog is going to someone who knows how to use them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have to train with a guide dog, too, and you also have to be a person who travels quite a bit or has a job that you go to every day. They don\u2019t want to give a guide dog to someone that\u2019s just at home all the time because you don\u2019t need the guide dog for that. You\u2019ve got to go through an interview process and a personality test to get matched up with a dog, too, to make sure you\u2019ll get along. And they match your stride and how much you want to travel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took me about three years to get a guide dog, which is slightly longer than normal. But I had to be medically cleared because of epilepsy to make sure it wasn\u2019t going to be a problem when I was out and about with a guide dog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Have you ever used audio description? If so, what are your thoughts on it?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

JOHN BRAMBLITT: I\u2019ve used it a little bit. I don\u2019t use it a lot because I have a 12-year-old son who\u2019s like a living audio description, but I think audio description is wonderful. Once, I was listening to a movie I had seen when I was sighted. I remembered it was a couple sitting at a table, saying a few words. But the person who did the audio description knew a lot about wine because when the waiter brought a bottle of wine to the table, the describer starting talking about the mild notes of almond and the type of wine. It didn\u2019t have anything to do with the scene, but it was kind of interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the time, audio description is very specific to what\u2019s going on. I think it\u2019s awesome that it\u2019s there because there are movies where you would have no idea what\u2019s going on without it. I\u2019ll often listen to a movie three or four or five times from different perspectives, and then I\u2019ll listen to it with the audio description to fill it all in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If there was one piece of advice you could give, what would it be?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

JOHN BRAMBLITT: My piece of advice would be to fail. Fail a lot, and don\u2019t be afraid of failing. If you\u2019re not failing in your life, you may not be trying enough new things. Give yourself the freedom and the license to fail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did a portrait once of Jeff Bridges. I really admire him, and I asked him for advice. If I\u2019m around anybody that I admire, I usually ask them that question. He said, don\u2019t be afraid to fail. You\u2019ve got to fail a lot. And I thought that was so cool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few months later, I was at a conference talking to Don Hahn, a painter and the producer behind Disney\u2019s top 20 movies. We were up at 2 o\u2019clock in the morning working around the fireplace, and I asked him the same question. He said you\u2019ve got to fail. Don\u2019t be afraid of failing. And I thought, well, my goodness. All these people that are much more successful than I am, that are much more talented than I am, have the same bit of advice. That has to mean something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think a lot of times, we\u2019re our own harshest critics. We won\u2019t let ourselves put ourselves out there. We\u2019re so afraid of getting it wrong that we won\u2019t try something new. We\u2019re so worried about making fools of ourselves that we don\u2019t try. So, make a fool of yourself. Go out there and make lots and lots of mistakes because it\u2019s the successes that stick. That\u2019s what you\u2019ll remember.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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