Artists With Vision Loss

Artists with vision loss include Claude-Oscar Monet, Edgar Degas, Rembrandt van Rijn, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Cezanne, Mary Cassatt, Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Jeffrey Own Hanson, and Jazz Pianist/Photographer Henry Butler, among others.

Visually impaired artists are people who are unable to see normally, yet work in the visual arts. This seeming contradiction is overcome when one understands the nature of visual impairments, which is a decreased ability to see that cannot be corrected by the usual means, such as with glasses, but it does not mean complete blindness. In fact, there are blind artists and visually impaired artists. Interestingly enough, only 10% of people who have blindness can see nothing at all. 

Christine D. Crosheck continues to make art because it fascinates her. Even if she were miraculously healed from the visual impairment, she would still continue to create art.