Quiz 17 : Chuck Baird

Question 1

Chuck Baird lived when?

Answer 1

February 22, 1947- February 10, 2012

Question 2

He was an American deaf artist who was one of the most notable founders of the what?

Answer 2

De’ VIA (Deaf View Image Arts)

Question 3

This is an aesthetic of Deaf culture in which visual art conveys a deaf worldview

Answer 3

De’ VIA art movement

Question 4

His career spanned over how many years?

Answer 4

35 years

Question 5

When did he become deaf?

Answer 5

He was born deaf

Question 6

What schools did he attend in order?

Answer 6

Kansas School for the Deaf to Gallaudet University to the Rochester Institute of Technology

Question 7

After being awarded his BFA from RIT, he worked where as what?

Answer 7

A set painter for the National Theatre of the Deaf (NTD)

Question 8

After his set painting work at NTD, he worked where and as what?

Answer 8

Visual arts cordinator with Spectrum-Focus on Deaf artists, a deaf colony in texas

Question 9

He worked on what Emmy Award winning project with deaf media?

Answer 9

A series for deaf children called Rainbow’s End

Question 10

Where was Chuck Baird’s first exhibition?

Answer 10

the Deaf Artists’ Exhibit: World Federation of the Deaf Conference, Gaullaudet University in 1975 in DC

Question 11

When he held residencies at many deaf schools, he created a 150-foot tall what?

Answer 11

Collage/mural for The Learning Center for Deaf Children in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1995

Question 12

He also created what during his residencies?

Answer 12

a 30x10 mural at Gallaudet University called “The Five Panes: Deaf Experiences”

Question 13

“The Five Panels: Deaf Experiences” has what in it?

Answer 13

The child signs “Are you deaf?” and the adult signs “Deaf, like you!”

Question 14

What did Chuck do in May 1989 prior to the international deaf culture festival at Gallaudet university?

Answer 14

He was one of 8 artists who produced a manifesto for De’VIA.

Question 15

What was this manifesto?

Answer 15

A concept for deaf art that contained a message about deaf life

Question 16

What was the international deaf festival at Gallaudet called?

Answer 16

Deaf Way II

Question 17

How does the mainfesto begin?

Answer 17

“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”

Question 18

Baird was renowed in the deaf world and his artwork was included in what book?

Answer 18

Deaf Artists in America: Colonial to Contemporary

Question 19

Who wrote Deaf Artists in America: Colonial to Contemporary?

Answer 19

Deborah M. Sonnenstrahl

Question 20

He was commissioned to create what for who?

Answer 20

Plates for Dawn Sign Press, a deaf publisher in Southern California

Question 21

Because he was a celebrated artist in the deaf community and due to his pioneering in developing the concepts of De’Via, his death..

Answer 21

Was noted by institutions in the deaf community including NIT/NTID, Gallaudet University, and the Texas Association for the Deaf

Question 22

Baird established what that aimed to do what?

Answer 22

A foundation to support emerging deaf artists called the Chuck Baird Foundation

Question 23

Many of his works include what?

Answer 23

Images of his own hands incorporated into ASL signs

Question 24

In addition to his artwork, he did what? And did it with?

Answer 24

Acting and ASL storytelling with the National Theatre of the Deaf

Question 25

He performed as an actor with the National Theatre of the Deaf when?

Answer 25

1980-1990

Question 26

Some of his many ASL stories were recorded by?

Answer 26

Gallaudet University

Question 27

Chuck Baird died when due to what?

Answer 27

February 10, 2012 after a 4 year battle with cancer