Michael Anthony Williams

Mr. Williams has been sight impaired since birth and started drawing and painting at the age of 10.  Mr. Williams took interest in art when he saw his mother do a sketch of a cowboy  riding off toward the sunset and decided to pursue and harvest his ability to create. He remember starting off drawing cars and trucks and later aviation and then onto architecture. Mr. Williams would continue to advance in his art by teaching himself perspective and later painting. It was known by a few individuals that Mr. Williams had found his calling in life and that was to become an artist.

This is his website.

Manipal Arunakumari

Manipal Arunakumari is a Blind Musical Veena Artist of excellence from Karnataka state of India.

Born in 1966, she lost her vision at the tender age of 7 years (1973) due to bilateral retina detachment (pathological myopia). All medical treatments such as surgery, eye grafting, allopathic, homeopathic systems were of no use according to the experts in the field.

However, her parents suggested her to learn Carnatic classical music to stand on her own legs.

The initial strong foundation in vocal music was laid by the well known Vidwan Sri. Udupi Vasudeva Bhat, which was later continued by Smt Lalitha Ballal and Vidwan Sri. Sooralu Parameshwara Bhat. She began learning the challenging Veena under Veena Vidushi Smt. K.R.Lakshmi Iyengar in 1978. She was initiated to violin by Vidwan Sri. K.Raghavendra Bhat. The sincere, affectionate coaching from her teachers and constant full time practice and listening to cassettes, CD’s, radio etc., made her to attain the otherwise impossible achievements.

She has a website, so check it out!

Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950, as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.

Teresa de Cartagena

Teresa de Cartagena (c.1425–) was a Spanish author and nun who fell deaf between 1453–1459, which influenced her two known works Arboleda de los enfermos (Grove of the Infirm) and Admiraçión operum Dey (Wonder at the Works of God). The latter work represents what many critics consider as the first feminist tract written by a Spanish woman.

Chuck Baird

Chuck Baird was born in Kansas City with a moderate hearing loss but grew up culturally deaf.  He attended the Kansas School for the Deaf, Gallaudet University, (formerly College) and National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology.

He has been a painter since his teen years and has led a distinguished career, most notably as the official curator of Deaf Way II art exhibitions at Gallaudet and in Washington DC area in 2002. He has participated in dozens of exhibits, created several commissioned murals, and has served as artist in residence at over thirty deaf schools.

Baird split his time between painting and acting while involved in the National Theatre for the Deaf and Equity theatres for a total of 23 years. He is best remembered for his role as the painter in the stage production of the adapted movie, King of Hearts.

Quote by him:

"I am no longer interested in whether I am a Deaf artist or an artist who happens to be deaf. I have accepted being either cultured Deaf or hard of hearing; that's fine with me. But what makes me an artist, that really matters. The process is the power of creativity and all the gifts inside and from the surrounding environment. It is so much more fun that way. The brush becomes so free, and speaks or moves for itself."

He had a ebsite.

Scott Upton

Scott Upton is deaf and is from Canada. Scott was born in Montreal, Quebec and moved to Ontario. He attended Ernest C. Drury School in Milton, Ontario and Sir James Whitney School in Belleville, Ontario for the final two years and graduated there.

Scott is a desktop publisher, graphic designer, digital artist and pressman. He lives and works in Kingston, Ontario. Kingston is a very beautiful city and lots of history in this city. Scott is currently work as a pressman. He has over 22 years as pressman experience and was working on Heidelberg MOZP press (6 and half tons press). Heidelberg press is well-known for printing and he was doing full color printing.

Scott is involved in many Deaf sports and events committees. He was designs the flyers and program books for them. He started a home based business in his spare time in 1997 called Remember When... It is a Desktop Publishing, Design and Printing Service and is still in current now - serving many Deaf clubs, organizations, businesses and services.

His interest was heightened when he bought some impressive 3D software that offered endless ways to create designs.  Hand Nation was just added to his business and it is Digital Art of Sign Language. Hand Nation has been four years in the making, using five different software programs and over 2 GB of memory. The key to making these creative pictures is 'patience'. His first design was the jet and his favorite design is the motorcycle.

Keith Salmon

Keith Salmon (born 1959) is a British fine artist. His work is principally semi-abstract Scottish landscapes which are created based upon his experience as a hill walker. Even though he is blind Salmon has climbed more than one hundred Munros, many of which have been captured in his artworks.

Esref Armagan is a Turkish artist born without eyes.

Eşref Armağan was born both unsighted and to an impoverished family. As a child and young adult he never received any formal schooling or training; however, he has taught himself to write and print. He draws and paints by using his hands and primarily oil paints. In this manner, Mr. Armağan has been perfecting his art for the past thirty-five years.
He needs absolute quite when working. First, using a Braille stylus, he etches an outline of his drawing. He needs to feel that he is "inside" his painting-- in fact, when he is drawing a picture of the sea, he often wonders if he should wear a life jacket so as not drown! When he is satisfied with his drawing, he starts to apply the oils with his fingers. Because he applies only one color at a time (the colors would smear otherwise), he must wait two or three days for the color to dry before applying the next color. This method of painting is entirely unique to Mr. Armağan. He receives no assistance or training from any individual. He also learned to draw perspective.
He has also developed his own methods of doing portraits. He asks a sighted person to draw around a photograph, then he turns the paper over and feeling it with his left hand, he transfer what he feels onto another sheet of paper, later adding color. He has done portraits of the former first lady of Turkey, the current president and current prime minister.
Mr. Armağan is currently forty-one years old, married with two children. He has displayed his work at more than 20 exhibition in Turkey and in Holland and the Czech Republic. He has appeared several times on television and in the press in Turkey and has been on programs of the BBC and ZDF.

Helen Adams Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.

Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company Frank Sinatra called Charles “the only true genius in show business.”