Let's Support the Equal Rights
Two black and white pencil drawings: top picture has two hands signing “Support” and bottom picture with two hands signing “Equal.”
Yi Wang
2021
'Till I Collapse
[ID: The background color is a mixture of beige and pink filled with red splatters and with black crosses with 4 smaller lines. The upper left-hand corner in handwritten black font reads “WRESPECT” with the letter T of the cross with 4 smaller lines. At the center is a hand drawn teal and blue face with white eyes. Mustache, ears, chin and eyebrows are lined with stripes. Near one eye in black font reads “C/S”. From the neck below, the colors are also teal and blue with black stripes and triangles on the neck. The collars are blue and small black flames on the borders of the collars. There are small black flames on the shoulder of the figure.]
Pedrito "Wrisper" Garcia
2017
#21signs
A black and white drawing of two Black women smiling and looking directly at you. The woman on the left has short braided hair, and a black sleeveless shirt. The woman on the right has long locs. Her face is right next to the other woman.
Rosalyn Watson
She/Her/Hers
2021
<span>Trinidadian Santeria Dancers </span>
[ID: A photograph of two Black persons looking at the camera--the person at the left has a white shirt with a red head wrap, their right arm is bend and right hand is placed on their head, their hand has black nails; the person at the right has a long-sleeve shirt decorated with art inside the gold and black stripes. A red head wrap and red fabric around their waist; a pair of gold earrings. They have their right arm around the first person’s back while holding black human hair tied by a white knot. Behind them is a brown/white deteriorating wall with cracks.]
Henri Grau
2017
20 American Born De'VIA Artists
A framed print of a four by five square grid with a different artist’s profile (head and shoulders) painted in each square. A white border runs around the grid.
Tony McGregor
2012
2020
The 11 by 14 inch artwork, “2020”, is from a “24-day advent calendar” that I purchased for $4.43, and carefully peeled off the outside and inside bases and primed them. I added four more doors and carefully cut the doors and left them closed. Each door is from one to two inch size. I painted tiny pictures, using Kuretake GANSAI TAMBI watercolour, a water brush pen and a MANGAKA 01 ink pen. The artwork was from the annual De’VIA February Challenge that has been going on since 2014, and each day an artist would share an artwork on De’VIA Central Facebook. The theme was about a deaf life experience during the pandemic, using a chart with a list of events, names, places and so on, that an artist can choose from. An example would be this- Day 21, I chose Dinner Table Syndrome. This is the first artwork on “dinner table syndrome” I have painted about, and the image is very small and hard to illustrate and paint on the inside base. The image showed, my family apologizing to me, in 2020, after I asked questions about our Native American ancestors. I remember vividly how frustrated I was at the table, asking my family to tell me what was about, and they told me to, "wait, I will tell you later, not now" and so on. In the picture, shows a person sitting at the left corner with question marks above the head which happened to be me when I was ten years old, not understanding what my family were talking about. In the image, there is a group of our ancestors in their sacred regalias and headdresses behind. That was my vision of what they were discussing about and I looked back and learned just how much have I lost all of the stories they were talking about our ancestors. I completed all 28 images and applied rubber cement on both the outside and inside bases. Then I carefully attached them together. After that, I forgot what the images were, inside the doors until I opened its first door on February 1st. I have a blog https://febchallenge.wordpress.com that tells a story behind each door. My name is Nancy Rourke, and I am a Deaf artist, using De’VIA movement since 2009. I am from San Diego, California, and am an enrolled member of Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians in the Kumeyaay Nation. I reside in Loveland, Colorado.
Nancy Rourke
2021
3044
An abstract painting with a cream background and line strokes in dark gray, with painted blobs of blue and greens to accent the line strokes. Hints of yellow see-through paint are in between the blue strokes.
Laural Hartman
2016
3D Deaf Scrabble (series)
ID: Four wooden tiles with black text, each tile has a letter and a small number at the lower right corner of the letter. In order: “D.2” 1 "E. 1." "A. 1." "F. 4.”
Ann Silver
2017
3D Deaf Scrabble (series)
Four wooden tiles with black text, each tile has a letter and a small number at the lower right corner of the letter. In order: “D. 2”, "E. 1.", "A. 1", "F. 4” .
Ann Silver
2017
3D Mixed Media of Frida Kahlo: Smoking with Coffee Cup
[ID: The artwork is in 3D format. The background is green with numerous green leaves around the border. At the center is a paper cut-out image of Frida Khalo with a headpiece of synthetic white and pink roses; gold metal jewel earrings. There are 4 parrots decorated with 2 on each side. One hand is holding a cigarette and the other a cup of coffee. A piece of fabric covers the chest leaving a V section exposed.]
Iris V. Martinez
2020