Beauty in Diversity
There is a colorful landscape with the house and different shapes of animal. You can see different rainbows in the background with many hills with different colors.
Uzi Buzgalo
He/Him/His
2009
From the permanent collection of the RIT/NTID Dyer Arts Center
Untitled
There is a blue, green and orange landscape with a lake and six long black trees standing by the lake. There is a reflection of the trees in the water.
Randy Dunham
He/His/Him
2018
The RIT/NTID Dyer Arts Center retained rights from artists or next of kin on September 23, 2020
Beauty of Sign Language Movement I
An abstract painting on a blue and pink background. Curving bright lines varying in width and in hues of green, blue, yellow, and red. On the very top layer are fine lines of white.
Tracey Salaway
She/Her/Hers
2017
From the permanent collection of the RIT/NTID Dyer Arts Center
Black (Deaf?) Lives Matter
There is an African Mask in color of brown, gold and white in the center of the canvas. It has three signs on showing in gold. The signs are "Black, Lives, and Matter. There is one sign in white, "Deaf" (seem to be erased from the canvas). The background has abstract patterns (similar to Cubism)
Fred Michael Beam
2020
Don't "Dis" Ability Pride
There are two faces in the background, a couple of bodies in silhouette with their fists raised, and one fist raised at the forefront. The style is very cubist-like and colors are in black, brown, gold, and white.
Fred Michael Beam
2020
Black, Deaf and.... Black and Deaf Artstory of Our Past and Present
Each canvas has word(s) that define the moments that shape our identity and history through BlackDeaf eyes. Artwork was added to evoke the emotions, spirits, and subconscious of black, deaf and "black and deaf" people. Each column represent a history of a group (Black, Deaf and Black and Deaf). All are in only 4 colors: bronze, gold, white and black.
Fred Michael Beam
2020
In The Mind of Black Consciousness
A man image from shoulder and up with his hands in the air. Two outsiders' hands grabbed that black man's hands. One has the sign " gun " near the head of the man. The picture has different abstract patterns around them. It has colors gold and dark brown that contrast the lightning on the picture.
Fred Michael Beam
2020
Lift Every Voice and Sign
All four canvas has a male figure with hood. The canvas on the left has the male figure has their head down with the hood covering their eyes. He signs with hands opened above his head. The second canvas on the left has the male figure with his eyes closed and head up. In that canvas, he signs with his hands closed on the chest. The third canvas shows the male figure with his head a little higher (with release) and eyes still closed. His hands are starting to open up outward, as if he is expressing himself. The fourth canvas has the male figure with his head up into the sky and his hands opening up when moving to the sky and closing when it is coming down . Its color is bronze, gold, black and white. Abstract Artwork.
Fred Michael Beam
2020
BlackDeaf Power
There is one feminine African mask showing on left canvas. Only half of the mask is shown. The right canvas shows a masculine African mask. Again half of the mask is shown. The feminine mask has a sign "Culturally Black" and the masciline mask has the sign of symbolic fist representing "power". The color is in bronze, gold, black and white.
Fred Michael Beam
2020
This is Deaf Hip Hop Love
The painting has one person kneeling near the ground. It has black background. The person has his hand out to the audience signing "I Love you" and the second hand signing "Deaf".
Fred Michael Beam
2020