Artist Teresa Jaynes' new work The Moon Reader, created with the assistance of Katherine Allen, is a multimedia body of work that invites participants to learn to read Moon, a raised-letter writing system for the blind invented by blind educator William Moon in 1845.

Jayne’s Reader includes two books, the first is set in Moon type and has embossed illustrations. The second book, a translation of the first, is printed in both braille and large type. Modeled after Victorian primers, the books are based on the artist’s research in the Library Company's Michael Zinman Collection of Printing for the Blind.

Learn how Jaynes was inspired by the collection at the Library Company that led to the creation of this body of work which allows her audience to touch, decipher, translate and comprehend----in a serene act of discovery. The Moon Reader seeks to challenge participants' ideas about visual culture, in ways that elicit curiosity, humor, and empathy and expand their understandings of historical and contemporary connotations of sight.