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Melody Bock

Melody Bock

Melody Bock loves to help others express themselves through art, including opportunities to teach our future generations. As an art educator, she can implement any type of art projects for all students, although her strengths are in painting and pottery.

She has taken joy in teaching in public schools for more than 15 years, including at KSD (Kentucky School for the Deaf), as well as undergraduate courses at EKU, helping to prepare a new generation of art teachers. Opportunities to teach special needs students one-on-one were numerous, as she was a facilitator for all of her students. With professional teaching Certificates in the State of Kentucky for all grades in Art Education and Hard of Hearing students, she remains available to teach in the Arts for All in Kentucky Inclusion Program and as a Side-By-Side Teaching Arts.

Art By Melody is a complete pottery studio in her home as well as painting murals and custom paintings.

Brittany Castle

Brittany Castle

Brittany Castle is a Deaf graphic artist and owner of the business, 58 Creativity (www.58creativity.com), where she creates and sells American Sign Language art and products. Her artwork is inspired by Deaf culture and the use of sign language to create a connection between visuals and emotions in her work.

Rosemary Edwards

Rosemary Edwards

Deaf since birth. She currently lives in Chicago, but she was born and raised in Illinois. She has been an artist all her life - thanks to her mother who was an artist herself. She does various art work - depends on the mood that strikes her. She mostly does photography of nature during her walks at a trail. She does some DeVIA artwork - many of them are related to mental health.

Jennifer Harris

Jennifer Harris

As a young girl, Jennifer discovered her deep passion for art and architecture. Her mother (a former art teacher) was the one who inspired her to pursue her dreams in art and architecture. Her travels and personal research have enhanced her knowledge base, increased her passion, and impacted her personal philosophy.

Ben Justice

Ben Justice

Ben Justice is a 20 year old undergraduate pursuing a politics major and an education minor. He does art in his free time. He enjoys acrylic and digital painting.

Elaine Laird

Elaine Laird

Elaine Laird has a Bachelor’s degree in Art with a concentration in graphic design from the University of Louisville. She has more than 15 years in the art field. She has a home-based business specializing in American Sign Language (ASL) art that focuses on the visual elements of ASL including: hand signs, facial expressions and body movements. She produces her art on greeting cards, pictures, tee shirts, bookmarks and hand crafts. She also offers non-ASL inspirational art products.

Ellen Mansfield

Ellen Mansfield

Ellen Mansfield is a mixed media professional artist specializing in clay, tiles, drawing, and painting. She is also an activist and practitioner. She provided lectures on Deaf- themed subjects of motherhood, Deafhood, language, identity culture, history, and trauma. It is more about self-discovery based on their environment and sensation; and encourages others to find their own artistic expression through various art and language forms. Her goal is to create a public narrative through art and spread a value of human consciousness based on the transformation from past struggles to liberation in art.

Ellen holds a BFA degree in illustration study at the School of Visual Arts based in Manhattan, New York. She associates with Deaf View Image Art movement (aka De’VIA) to create numerous artworks that typically have both positive and negative effects on society today. Ellen participated in a showcase, “De’VIA: The Manifesto Comes to Ages” exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery Museum in Rochester, New York in 2019. She was a finalist for the public art in Minnesota State Arts Council in 2017.

Ellen curated a juried showcase for the emerging and professional Deaf artists, including prisoners and children. The exhibition is called “Let There Be Light: De^ARTivism” in Washington, DC in 2015. Art Museum of Greater Lafayette in Indiana hosted a solo exhibition, “My Deafhood Art: Traveling Through the Darkness to the Light” in 2015. She has an art studio named Ellen’s TileStroke in Frederick, Maryland.

Kellie Martin

Kellie Martin

Kellie Martin is a badass, queer, nonbinary, deaf artist.

They are a dream-maker and a lifetime lover of magic and weird complex human minds. They have been creating traditional art since their childhood and they started to learn digital art a few years ago to express their ideas through mysticism, astrology, witchy, fantasy, and magic beings within them through sign language. They love to work with paintings, drawings, and illustrations. They also have a strong theatre background and they have worked behind as design stages and props, and stage manager for shows.

Aimee Miller

Aimee Miller

Aimee Miller is a deaf fluid artist from the Pacific Northwest. She is a colorful warrior who loves to play with colors and is therapeutic. She discovered acrylic pour art as a medium while undergoing treatment for past trauma, anxiety and depression. When not working on her art, she enjoys exploring Oregon’s coast with her dog, Lola, being in Mother Nature, learning new things, music and real human connections.

Bonnie Sandy

Bonnie Sandy

Bonnie W Sandy, daughter of late Elizabeth "Cookie" and David R Williams, both deaf, grew up with arts and crafts. Her mother was an artist. Bonnie was self taught as an artist. She is a member of DeVIA. Her artworks are multi and mixed media. String Arts, mixed/3-D canvases, decoupaged wood boxes, some textile artworks, and anything she finds interesting works with scraps and upcycles.

Kimberly Snipe

Kimberly Snipe

Kimberly Snipe was born and raised in New England. She lived in Washington, D.C. for many years before moving to northern Virginia. She is currently studying Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education at Liberty University. Kimberly is married to Warren Snipe, of 18 years with their beautiful three children. She enjoys traveling and going on missions trips. Kimberly also enjoy hosting events with friends and family. She is forever grateful for her Heavenly Father, family, friends and fans for their love and support for her.

Sheri Youens-Un

Sheri Youens-Un

Sheri learned to draw at an early age to communicate her needs with her family when they banned signing at home after enrolling her in a local oral school. Unfortunately, Sheri was targeted, bullied and punished for signing and drawing became her only friend. After she was kicked out, she attended deaf program where she was finally allowed to sign and Sheri thrived. Shortly afterwards, Sheri attended and graduated from Texas School for the Deaf with honors, she went to Gallaudet University where she earned Bachelor of Arts in history and Masters degree from Lamar University. After teaching language and technology for more than 15 years in various settings with different ages both in classroom and beyond, she is now CEO of her new business, www.deafroot.com where she sells language resources to encourage families to sign with their Deaf children. Sheri lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband, Peter Un with their 2 kids.

In her art, Sheri enjoys exploring different ways to use wood as a medium and she desires to capture the beauty and the authenticity of American Sign Language and highlight many forgotten Deaf leaders.


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