DeafArt Club (1999 - 2005)

was born the Summer of 1999 when we helped create the first ASL public sculpture in Minnesota.

WE AT DeafArt Club HOPE WE WILL INSPIRE YOU TO CREATE YOUR OWN DeafArt Club WE HAVE ENJOYED SERVING OUR COMMUNITY FOR 6 YEARS & ALTHOUGH WE ARE NO LONGER A FORMAL CLUB, MANY OF US CONTINUE TO CREATE DeafArt.

DAC Mission Statement: DeafArt Club urges Deaf and Hearing to create, teach and exhibit DeafArt, also called De'VIA, which incorporates American Sign Language, Deaf Culture and the Deaf Experience. Our goal is to educate about and facilitate reflection of Deaf history and culture, and promote increased positive relations amongst people of all backgrounds.

create....

ASL windchimes and clocks, name signs, wall plaques...

water fountains, ASL bowls..

...3-dimensional sculptures...

Accessible Tactile Clay Quilts by Helene Oppenheimer:

1. ASL/Braille Clay Quilt:Snowflake

2. Bear's Paw, Duck's Foot, Goose Track, Flying Geese

Send a FREE e-card of the above quilts: http://mnartists.org/postcard.do?action=start&rid=22042

Curta's Tea Time: ASL Quilt Block

an http://mnartists.org/work.do?rid=49250

DeafArt Club G A L L E R Y

Our Clay DeafArt is a Minnesota Folk Art!

'A'10h x 7w

Rita Andrie is a Deaf woman working in the computer industry.

Silent Strength 9 1/2 inches round

Beckie Perkins is a Deaf woman photographer and mother of 2 including a Deaf daughter.

More DeafArt Ideas!

Incorporate DeafArt in your art!

Art Reflecting American Sign Language, Deaf Culture and the Deaf Experience.

WOW!

Learn American Sign Language While Sculpting and Quilting!

After adorning the top of your cake, place your I LoveYou sculpture in a potted plant as a reminder of your special day!

Deaf Power

Big is Beautiful

American Sign Language Judaica

WE AT DeafArt Club HOPE OUR CLUB WILL INSPIRE YOU TO CREATE YOUR OWN DeafArt Club WE HAVE ENJOYED SERVING OUR COMMUNITY FOR 6 YEARS AND ALTHOUGH WE ARE NO LONGER A FORMAL CLUB, MANY OF US CONTINUE TO CREATE DeafArt.

This De'VIA document inspired DAC to create Deaf Folk Art:

The De'VIA Manifesto: DeafView/Image Art

De'VIA represents Deaf artists and perceptions based on their Deaf experiences. It uses formal art elements with the intention of expressing innate cultural or physical Deaf experience. These experiences may include Deaf metaphors, Deaf perspectives , and Deaf insight in relationship with the environment (both the natural world and Deaf cultural environment), spiritual and everyday.

De'VIA can be identified by formal elements such as Deaf artists' possible tendency to use contrasting colors and values, intense colors, contrasting textures. It may also most often include a centralized focus, with exaggeration or emphasis on facial features,. especially eyes. mouths, ears, and hands. Currently, Deaf artists tend to work in human scale with these exaggerations, and not exaggerate the space around these elements.

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEAF ARTISTS AND DE'VIA. Deaf artists are those who use art in any form, media, or subject matter, and who are held to the same artistic standards as other artists. De'VIA MAY ALSO BE CREATED BY DEAFENED OR HEARING ARTISTS, IF THE INTENTION IS TO CREATE WORK THAT IS BORN OF THEIR DEAF EXPERIENCE . It is clearly possible for Deaf artists not to work in the area of De'VIA.

While applied and decorative arts may also use the qualities of DE'VIA (high contrast, centralized focus, exaggeration of specific features), this manifesto is specifically written to cover the traditional fields of visual fine arts (painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, printmaking) as well as alternative media when used as fine arts such as fiber arts, ceramics, neon, and collage.