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Inside this Issue

	Entire issue 2,288 kb
	Interview 44 kb Chris Heuer is an instructor in the English Department at Gallaudet University and Paul Conant is a junior majoring in English there. Heuer and Conant are both deaf and writers of short stories.
	Deaf Art Exhibit Underway 429 KB Deaf Art or Deaf View Image Art (De’VIA) is a genre of art in which artists give form to Deaf lives and Deaf experience. De’VIA includes Deaf metaphors, Deaf perspectives, and Deaf insight into the natural and social environment.
	Update 101 kb Stories Include: Lou Frisino-Deaf Artist Extraordinaire; Contest for Deaf Students-The Dalgarno English Award; Deaf Way II-We’ll Love You!
	Telling Stories-Having fun with American Signs 223 kb The deaf and hard of hearing students at La Mesa Middle School, in La Mesa, Calif., joined Peter Cook, an internationally renowned poet and entertainer, for a full day as he taught and demonstrated techniques in using American Sign Language to craft poetry and stories.
	Lightfoot: Drawing on Talent 84 kb Heather Lightfoot, an illustrator for World Around You, has been drawing for as long as she can remember.
	Screen Painting with Herget 329 kb Screen painting is a folk art in Baltimore. Dee Herget, one of the masters of this craft, shows off some of her work.
	Deaf Student Plays Helen Keller (Cover Story) 79 kb Shira Grabelsky, who is center stage on the World Around You cover, was a 19-year-old freshman at George Washington University. She won a role in The Miracle Worker, produced by Arena Stage, one of the major professional theaters in Washington, D.C. Grabelsky played the role of Helen Keller, the deaf-blind individual who became a renowned advocate for deaf and blind people in the early 1900s.
	Art and Comment 127 kb Shawn Richardson is the man behind some of the clever cartoons in the Silent News. Richardson, an artist who graduated in 1992 from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, also works as a freelance graphic artist doing illustrations and graphic design. In addition, he works full time for Preservation magazine at the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C.
	Fanny Yeh—Artist to the World 139 kb Fanny Yeh, artist, dancer, international hostess, has designed a series of greeting cards appropriate for Americans—and for deaf people around the world.
	Student Work 479 kb Three pages of poems, short stories and artwork by students
	Teacher Guide 44 kb