Work samples

  • Please Do Touch The Art

    This is an essay written for an online exhibition titled Redefine/ABLE about disability and inclusion. The exhibition was a project of a graphics design class at UMD during 2020.

  • In Their Own Words

    In Their Own Words: Adults Who Are Blind Describe Museums

    By Cheryl Fogle-Hatch, Ph.D. and Don Winiecki, Ph.D. Ed.D.

    Poster presented to AAM 2021, a virtual conference of the American Alliance of Museums

  • excerpt from book proposal Designing Tactile Media for Museum Professionals

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About Cheryl

Baltimore City  

Dr. Cheryl Fogle-Hatch is a nonfiction author working at the intersection of lived experience as a blind person and academic research in anthropology and museums. She is writing under contract with Routledge; Designing Tactile Media For Museum Professionals will be published in 2028. Dr. Fogle-Hatch founded MuseumSenses LLC, a consulting business that helps museums develop multi-sensory exhibits for everyone. Creating exhibit content with tactile and audio components engages blind people… more

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MuseumSenses blog

I have posted on my blog at https://museumsenses.org since 2019. Earlier posts were aimed at gathering resources and explaining best practices around accessibility in museums. Now, I focus on my work, including my own curating projects (Founding Fossils and The Active Power of Touch) along with selected consulting work--exhibits or publications produced by my clients. My most recent posts served as process writing that I refined for my book proposal Designing Tactile Media for Museum Professionals, now under contract with Routledge. My post titled learning about Places Through Touch provided ideas for a section on tactile maps. Likewise, my post titled Learning About Things Through Touch provided material for a section on tactile models.

Founding Fossils

Dr. Fogle-Hatch and Dr. Bernard Means curated the Founding Fossils exhibit at the Peale Museum in Baltimore. This multisensory exhibit displays content in both visual and tactile modes, and label text is produced in print, braille, and in an audio format. Founding Fossils explains the surprising role that archaeology played in the understanding of species extinction in America as the United States became an independent country. The exhibit reproduces the artwork and the fossils in a 3D-printed format so that they can be touched.

  • mastodon sculpture
    mastodon sculpture
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    The Active Power of Touch

    This exhibit of tactile art opens April 2026 at The Peale Museum in Baltimore. This show features work that is created to be touched. I accepted work from 12 artists working in a variety of media including: carved wood, ceramics, collaged or folded paper, metal, plaster, resin, stone, and textiles.

    guest blogger American Alliance of Museums

    I was the lead author on an an industry publication, the blog of the American Alliance of Museums. We wrote this piece in 2020 when touch was severely restricted due to Covid-19. We argued that museums could create individual tactile handouts and we described design processes using embossed paper, and other techniques including 3D printing. We do not know if any museums adopted our recomendations then. Nonetheless, the piece remains a good introduction to the variety of options for tactile design.

     

    reference:

    Fogle-Hatch, Cheryl, Ann Cunningham, and Matt Gesualdi

    2020, (July 1)  Staying in Touch: Addressing Concerns to Allow Tactile Exploration at Museums. The American Alliance of Museums https://www.aam-us.org/2020/07/01/staying-in-touch-addressing-concerns-to-allow-tactile-exploration-at-museums/