Through the silence, Laurie Shapiro still hears the message. Shapiro, who lives with a genetic condition causing her to progressively go deaf, often listens to her inner world. “I don’t always hear the outside world,” said Shapiro, a Carnegie Mellon University graduate who lives in Los Angeles. “But I hear
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.
Two spring exhibits featured at the Dyer Arts Center at NTID highlight the uniqueness of deaf refugee art and the works of Deaf Canadian Persian sculptor and painter Maryam Hafizirad. Both exhibits are on display through April 1.