Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf announces that Fran Flaherty, an artist and curator with a 20-year history of highlighting works by artists with disabilities, has been named director of the Dyer Arts Center. Flaherty earned dual degrees in studio arts and history of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh and .September 21, 2022
“Shaped by the American Dream: Deaf History through Deaf Art,” featuring more than 140 works celebrating the Deaf American experience, is on display through April 21, 2023, in the Joseph F. and Helen C. Dyer Arts Center at NTID.
For the first time, a collaborative exhibition of works by Deaf artists from two prominent permanent collections will be shown to the public. “Traversing the Boundaries of the Natural and Synthetic Worlds,” a joint exhibit by the Joseph F. and Helen C. Dyer Arts Center at NTID and the Gallaudet University Archives, will run Dec. 23, 2021, through Jan. 15, 2022, with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 23.