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Learn about David Call, a Deaf artist and teacher who creates linocut prints inspired by De’VIA, Deaf View Image Art. Discover his journey from a troubled childhood to a passionate educator and activist for Deaf culture and art.
Call has taught for many years at California School for the Deaf in Fremont, and is recognized as one of the leading Deaf Visual Image Arts practitioners in the United States. The exhibit features the visual perspectives of David Call, an artist who has deep roots in the De’VIA art movement.
Sep 8, 2021 · Learn about David Call, a Deaf artist who creates linocut prints inspired by Deaf View Image Art (De'VIA) and his own Deafhood experience. See his works that challenge the dominant culture's views of Deaf people and promote self-expression and freedom.
May 10, 2024 · Watch on. Video courtesy of Patti Durr's Deaf Art website. David Call, a Deaf artist, was born in Los Angeles, California around the 1960s. His parents and oldest brother were hearing while his middle brother and him were Deaf. David attended the Hearing Institute in Los Angeles for speech training at an early age but did not benefit from his ...
Learn about David Call, a Deaf artist and teacher who creates De'VIA art to express his Deaf identity and experience. See his gallery of block cut prints, ink drawings, and linocut prints.
David Call artwork. Collection Overview. Collection Organization. Container Inventory. Scope and Contents. The collection contains one linocut print and one multi-colored prismacolor drawing by deaf artist David Call. Dates. Creation: 2012-2016. Creator. Call, David (Person) Biographical Information on David Call.
The use of imagery with an eye in the hand is repeated throughout David Call’s artwork. For Deaf people, the eye and the hand are one. It is with the eye that Deaf people see the beauty of the motions of sign language. To him, they are interlocked and related, one and the same.
