CLERC SCAR 26.7
17 February 2010

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REPRESSIVE MEANS
Patti Durr
[Artwork]

Repressive Means, 2006.
mixed media 38″ x 18″

For those who are Braille readers, a text description is provided below.

Pantry door with cracked paint and broken glass panels. Top half: Glass painted black with lips and ear, paint scratched away to show text from Alexander Graham Bell’s “Memoir upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race” (1883). Other passages from Bell’s infamous paper have images of hands and ears weaved in and out. Centered glass panel has black paint scraped off to reveal a snake skin underneath. Bottom open panel: Features include a face made up of collage images for hair, ears, nose, lips and hands. A door chain lock runs from the chest to behind the ear with two wires running from both ears to the chest lock. A wooden ruler with Bell’s text swings near a closed shaped hand. Both hands have a strip of text from George Veditz’s “Preservation of Sign Language” speech in them. On bottom edge of the door frame is another quote from Veditz’s text version of his ASL speech: “This new race of Pharaohs that knew not Joseph”

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Patti Durr teaches in the Department of Cultural and Creative Studies at
the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

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CLERC SCAR 24.6
3 February 2010

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INCOMPATIBLE
Nancy Rourke
[Artwork]

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The painting is divided vertically into two parts with different women. The women’s left and right sides make up a single split image. They are signing towards the viewer, teeth bared, and eyes looking at opposite sides. Harsh bright colors emphasize the signed word, “incompatible.”

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Nancy Rourke is a deaf artist, currently doing oil paintings on a series of Deaf-related Issues. She will have her artwork exhibited in a two-deaf-person art show in Denver on 18 March 2010.

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