Deaf Art/Deaf Artists collection, circa 1985-2007.

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Deaf Art/Deaf Artists collection, circa 1985-2007.

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Correspondence, slides, and clippings related to artists included in the Deaf Art/Deaf Artists website. The website includes over 40 deaf and hard of hearing artists. The Deaf Art/Deaf Artists collection contains materials collected by Paula Grcevic and Barbara Fox. Materials include color slides of artist works, correspondence, and clippings regarding Deaf art and artists. These materials were used to create the Deaf Art/Deaf Artists website, produced by NTID.

1.3 Linear feet 1 File box

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8179443

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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Rochester institute of technology

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It is unclear when the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) first admitted minority students. However, it appears as though the first African American students entered the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (renamed RIT in 1944) during the early 1900s. For instance, in 1906 Fredericka Sprague, the granddaughter of Frederick Douglass, took classes at the Institute. There are several other instances of African American students attending the school during the early 20th century as well...

Fox, Barbara, educator,

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The Deaf Art/Deaf Artists project began as a course taught at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at Rochester Institute of Technology by Paula Grcevic and Barbara Fox. In the development of course material, Grcevic and Fox assembled a collection of documentation on deaf and hard of hearing artists. This material was originally referred to as the International Archive of Deaf Artists. In order to make the material more accessible, a website was created under that name and was ac...

Grcevic, Paula,

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National Technical Institute for the Deaf

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