Sculptor's work offers others a glimpse into what she's seeing
By Anne Cook
Sunday March 2, 2008
Robert K. O'Daniell
Sheila Schneider with some of her work in her basement studio at home in Champaign. Schneider, who is legally blind, took art classes at Parkland and now studies at the University of Illinois.
In early art classes at Parkland College, Sheila Schneider almost gave up her dream of becoming an artist because her visual disability was so limiting.
Schneider sees the world differently from most people because her eyesight is narrowed to tunnel vision by an inherited and irreversible disorder called retinitis pigmentosa. But her Parkland teachers didn't let her quit. Instead, Schneider said, they encouraged her and adjusted their perspectives to her talents.
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