Betty G. Miller | Sources of Information

Web

"American Sign Language: Past, Present and Future" -- Neon Installation at Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf http://www.ncarts.org/awsbpage.cfm?ser=16675

Several pages at deafart.org have information about Miller.

Slide Presentation on Deaf View/Image Art (De'VIA) at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. -- Student review for university publication. http://scs.student.virginia.edu/~decweb/issue/1997/03/27/word/rychak.html

Books

Deaf Artists in America: Colonial to Contemporary by Deborah M. Sonnenstrahl, 2002. Published by DawnSignPress, ISBN #1-58121-050-7

This book contains reproductions of some of Betty's artwork, as well as that of her father, Ralph R. Miller.

A Journey into the Deaf-World by Harlan Lane, Robert Hoffmeister, and Ben Bahan, 1996. Published by DawnSignPress, #ISBN 0-915035-62-6

No reproductions, but the quick overview of Deaf visual arts mentions Spectrum, Focus on Deaf Artists, and Betty's influence on other artists.

"Betty G. Miller's Untitled, 1994 [sic] portrays with mixed media the battle between medical and cultural understandings of Deaf people."

Deaf Heritage: A Narative History of Deaf America by Jack R. Gannon, 1980. Published by National Association of the Deaf, ISBN #0-913072-38-9

This book contains reproductions of some of Betty's artwork, as well as that of her father, Ralph R. Miller, Sr. Deaf Heritage also shows the first newsletter of Spectrum, Focus on Deaf Artists.

Articles

WFD News, Magazine of the World Federation of the Deaf,
article and cover artwork, May 2000

The NAD Broadcaster, interview, March 1999

DEAF USA, interview, March/April 1999

Deaf Life Magazine, interview and cover artwork, May 1997

"De'VIA -- What an Odd Word! (A Historical Perspective)" by Deborah M. Sonnenstrahl in Deafness: A Historical Perspective, A Deaf American Monograph, 1996. ISBN #0-913072-84-2

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