“The Reading Brain is a celebration of all children and all of which makes us different and unique from one another, while igniting curiosity about the mechanics of our brains through the reading process.”
The DoSeum, a San Antonio children’s museum, announced San Antonio-based photographer and educator Sarah Sudhoff as their 2020 Artist in Residence. The program, now in its fourth year, allows children to interact with the work of the artist residents and connects the artists with the community, as each artist creates programs focusing on literacy through science, technology, engineering, and math.
Sudhoff will present The Reading Brain, a multi-sensory, data-driven interactive installation, which illustrates real-time mapping of the brain activity of dyslexic children as they read by lighting up different sections of the cranium. The data, recorded through MRI scans, is provided by the Director of the Center for the Study of Learning at Georgetown University, Dr. Guinevere Eden.
Sudhoff’s installation aims to bring life and color to the inner workings of the mind through recorded MRI scans facilitated by Dr. Guinevere Eden, director of the Center for the Study of Learning at Georgetown University. The sculpture will display the brain activity of dyslexic children as they read in real-time by lighting up different sections of the cranium.
Sudhoff’s Brain will be exhibited in conjunction with The DoSeum’s fall exhibition Beautiful Minds: Dyslexia and the Creative Advantage. The exhibition, featuring tools and resources used in diagnosis, will open on October 10, 2020, and be on view through January 3, 2021.
“My eight-year-old son August, whose difficulty with reading and courageous efforts to overcome these challenges, gave me the inspiration for this project,” Sudhoff said in a statement. “The Reading Brain is a celebration of all children and all of which makes us different and unique from one another, while igniting curiosity about the mechanics of our brains through the reading process.”
Says Orlando Graves Bolaño , DoSeum Arts Education Manager: “At The DoSeum we encourage and foster joyful learning and discovery and have always recognized there are myriad ways in which the mind can learn and think. By presenting Beautiful Minds: Dyslexia and the Creative Advantage and Sarah Sudhoff’s creative installation, we hope to inspire and enlighten families in the idea that a dyslexia diagnosis should never be seen as a problem, but rather as an opportunity to put minds at play in creative and exceptional ways.”
