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Chuck Baird (February 22, 1947 – February 10, 2012) [1] was an American Deaf artist who was one of the more notable founders of the De'VIA art movement, [2] [3] an aesthetic of Deaf Culture in which visual art conveys a Deaf world view. [4] [5] His career spanned over 35 years and included painting, sculpting, acting, storytelling, and teaching.
A major point of De'VIA is its differentiation from Deaf Art. Deaf Art is a term encompassing all artists who are Deaf, while De'VIA art can be made by Deaf and hearing individuals, as long as it represents the Deaf experience and perspective. A hearing CODA (Child of deaf adult), for example, could be a contributor to De'VIA. Similarly, a Deaf ...
The Museum of Deaf History, Arts and Culture is also home to the Chuck Baird Art Gallery. [5] Painter Chuck Baird, a graduate of the Kansas School for the Deaf, was a proponent of the De'VIA genre for deaf artists. [6] The museum is home to the Chuck Baird Foundation for the Visual Arts, which promotes and showcases artworks that convey the ...
Betty Miller's piece Ameslan Prohibited (1972) depicts two shackled hands and chopped fingertips; this powerful image encouraged more Deaf people to reveal their childhood experiences of audism and oralism through art. [14] In many of Chuck Baird's artwork, he cleverly incorporates ASL handshapes into the
The purpose of this movement was the define the difference between art made by deaf people, and art made about the deaf experience. Miller was the first known artists to exhibit art about the deaf experience, some notable works being "Ameslan Prohibited", "Let There Be Light", and "Bell School".
He worked for the Tate Gallery, London, before moving to Christie's auction house where he founded the education department. After he retired from Christie's he joined Boston University. Cumming is a prolific author of art history books aimed at young people and beginners.
The incandescent lights illuminating the subject to be televised also generated so much heat that Baird could not use a human for the testing. Eventually the hair became singed and the painted face became cracked by the heat. Stooky Bill and another Baird dummy, "James", have been jokingly called "the first television actors".
Baird's stylised rendition of Montrose in the background gleams in the steely light of a "Bomber's Moon", making plain the vulnerability of small coastal towns to German air raids. As an official war artist, Baird completed three portraits of workers in the munitions industry during 1943–44. Ann Fairweather