ASL Sculpture:A Study of Chuck Baird,

De’ Via artist

What is De’ VIA?Art movement with focus on Deaf theme

De’ VIA stands for DEAF VISUAL

Started by a group of Deaf artists in 1989

Some Artists did their artwork with Deaf theme before De’ VIA formed

There are many Deaf artists but few of them do their artwork with Deaf theme

Also hearing artists such as CODA can do the De’ VIA

Chuck Baird-Kansas School for the Deaf-Three Deaf sisters-Went to Gallaudet-Transferred to RIT-Involved in National Theater for the Deaf-Helped directed a play at CSD-Started De’ Via movement-Professional artist-Painted many famous ASL paintings

Chuck Baird’s Art worksPainted De’ ViaWell known for his ASL iconicity image in his

paintings Iconicity is the conceived similarity or

analogy between a form of a sign (sign that looks like the real thing) For example: sign “Cat” to describe what cat looks like

“If I were M.C. Escher…”

All American Breakfast

America

Double Nine Lives

Njamala

Sunrise in Austin

Left and Right

Music for the Eyes

ASL SculptureWell known for his ASL iconicity image in his paintings Iconicity is the conceived similarity or analogy between

a form of a sign (sign that looks like the real thing) For example: sign “Cat” to describe what cat looks like

"arbitrariness of language" is that for the signs, which is no relationship between the objects associated with the sign. For example: sign “math” has no image associated with math or sign “France” has nothing to do with France.

Aesthetics , beauty of the image, is very important! Aesthetics mean something is very beautiful to look at.