ASL Final - Douglas Tilden

He was the first California sculptor to get what?

Recognition and worldwide fame outside the US

What Deaf community did he has roots in?

San Francisco Bay Deaf community

What was he commissioned to make?

A bronze statue to memorialize California

(T or F) When he became an art teacher he needed interpreters and technology for communication

False, he said "I do not plan to make them talk, I plan to make them work."

(T or F) his mentor was Paul Choppin, a famous sculptor, but he wasn't Deaf

False, he was Deaf

(T or F) when he came back he no longer cared about the Deaf community

False, he was very interested in the rights and well being of the Deaf community

When and how did he die?

He died of heart failure in 1935

Though he was a teacher at the school, what inspired him?

His brother's sculptures

What is he remembered for?

Remembered in the art world and activism against the suppression of sign language for educating Deaf children

What else did he help organize and drafted the constitution and bylaws for?

The California Association of the Deaf

In 1889 he helped organize what?

The International Congress of the Deaf and he was voted Vice President at its first convention in Paris

(T or F) James Duval Phelan (the rich mayor of SF) and a US Senator became Tilden's patron?

True

(T or F) he proposed a bill to fight the rising tide of oralism

True

(T or F) he went to the California school of the deaf when he was five and insisted his family learned ASL

True

When and how did he become Deaf?

When he was 4 he had scarlet fever

After 8 years he returned to California. His work was exhibited with what?

Work from Monet, Rembrandt, and Delacroix

When did he graduate from the California School of the Deaf in Berkeley?

1880

When did he travel to Paris?

1888

Some of his best works are still standing. What are they?

Mechanics, the Football Player, the Baseball Player, and Father Junipero Serra The bear hunt