Art galleries and museums have long emphasized the visual, but we're offering something different: special multisensory art experiences to help you understand your surroundings in new ways! Come virtually explore the AGO Collection by activating your senses as you experience a selection of artworks through visual audio description, touch, smell and/or sound.

How can artists and designers create more multisensory experiences? OCADU Graduate Students, in response to an Inclusive Design Multisensory Museum Course, share their co-creative process of translating artworks in the AGO Collection into multisensory objects. Students explore a wide variety of techniques to create an inclusive gallery experience in a series of Multisensory Museum Moments.

In this program, Avery Creed, Kevin Ilango, Nidhi Paul and Sandra Law present an inclusive, multisensory translation of Kara Walker’s Resurrection Story with Patrons (2017). The experience consists of an interactive webpage where visitors can explore the stories, sounds and environment of enslaved Africans brought to America during the Antebellum period along with an audio-visual translation of the original artwork.

Visit Kara Walker’s Resurrection Story with Patrons Translation

Avery Creed

Avery is an artist, gallery enthusiast, and animateur in training. While focusing on her studies and exploring the potential collaborations between games and inclusive exhibition design, she works as an animator with Oakville Galleries.

Kevin Llango

Nidhi Paul 

Nidhi is an Industrial designer currently pursuing her masters in Inclusive Design at OCAD university. Design is all about an emotional experience, Nidhi's endeavor is to build better and inclusive product experiences through design. Although academically an industrial designer, she has frequently worked on interdisciplinary projects through her journey as a designer.

Sandra Law 

Sandra Law has a background in stop motion animation, writing, research, game-based learning, web accessibility and universal design for learning. She has worked as a learning designer for more than a decade participating in a variety of projects ranging from the development of just-in-time learning modules to accessible online mathematics courses. She is in her final year of the Inclusive Design program at OCAD University and her MRP is focused on developing a set of recommendations around accessibility of technology and online environments for populations who are intellectually and developmentally disabled.