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By: Michaela Jasko

What Is DeVIA?
Art form Designed to represent the Deaf community
Deaf experiences, perspectives, culture, hardshipsetc.

Art festival at Deaf Way I at Gallaudet University celebrating Deaf culture

Led by Betty G. Miller and Paul Johnston


4 day workshop focus point:
What is Deaf Art?

How It Began

Miller and Johnston conduct a conference with seven different Deaf artists 3 Important issues discussed :
1) 2) 3)

Common elements of Deaf art Manifesto Experiences as Deaf artists

The 9 Deaf Artists


1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Dr. Betty G. Miller, painter; Dr. Paul Johnston, sculptor; Dr. Deborah M. Sonnenstrahl, art historian; Chuck Baird, painter; Guy Wonder, sculptor; Alex Wilhite, painter; Sandi Inches Vasnick, fiber artist; Nancy Creighton, fiber artist; Lai-Yok Ho, video artist.

As a Result

DeVIA was coined


French style- Abbe de Lepee ASL spirit

Manifesto was created for DeVIA

DeVIA Manifesto
Establishes:

1. The purpose for DeVIA: -represents Deaf artists and perceptions based on their
Deaf experiences.

2. Formal elements used by DeVIA artists -intense colors, contrasting colors, imagery,
symbolism

3. Difference between Deaf artist and DeVIA artists and who can create it.
4. DeVIA is categorized as Visual Fine Arts

Resistance vs. Affirmation DeVIA Art

Resistance DeVIA Art


Audism Oralism Mainstreaming Cochlear Implants Identity Confusion Eugenics

Affirmation Deaf Art


ASL
Deaf hood Acceptance

Affiliation Empowerment

Betty G. Miller
Famous for her DeVIA art Passed away recently in December of 2012 The first Deaf American artist to DeVIA Resistance Art.

Millers Inspiration

Grew up hard of hearing to Deaf parents Was placed in oral schools throughout her elementary education mainstreamed w/ interpreter later on but parents still required her to take speech tutoring sessions.

Ameslan Prohibited
By: Betty G. Miller
-Represents the

cruel punishment and oppression that Deaf students

encountered in
oral schools

Education Deaf

Chuck Baird
Famously known for his DeVIA Affirmation art Incorporates a lot of ASL w/objects and contrasting colors into his art Passed away recently in Feb. 2012

Bairds Background
Born Deaf Grew up in Kansas ; Kansas School for the Deaf Went to Gallaudet University & RIT Bachelors degree in painting

Emphasizes the joy and welcoming feeling that many Deaf individuals get by being involving in the Deaf community.

Crocodile Dundee

Deaf American
By: Susan Dupor
Are you looking at me as a person or as a Deaf person

Feeling Like a Wallflower


by: Nancy Rourke

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