A picture is worth a thousand words, but only if the viewer can experience it. Our project aims to help blind and low-vision (BLV) people experience works of art, including their sensory and semantic dimensions, their emotional valence, the artist’s intentions, and other contextual information. Our project brings together researchers from vision, language, and interaction design, all informed by cognitive science, to develop AI Art Immersion for the visually impaired. Our work is inspired by the human visual system, which gives us an instant sense of our surroundings and lets us explore a complex scene interactively with eye movements and internal shifts of attention, enabling us to rapidly grasp the layout, the objects and characters present, and how the elements relate to each other.