Elizabeth Goldring Piene, at her exhibition of retina prints, here "Wandering Monk," exhibition "The Experience of Seeing," Groton, MA 2015. Photo: Ellen Sebring

Elizabeth Goldring is a visually challenged artist and poet. As Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Goldring collaborated with MIT and Harvard engineers, scientists, physicians, designers and students to create seeing tools and visual experiences for herself and others like her with severe vision loss due to macular degeneration or other diseases of the cornea, retina and lens.