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Alison O’Daniel

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William Henry Holmes, On the Sunset Hill, 1926, 1926, watercolor, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Anna Bartsch Dunne, 1962.4.19
On the Sunset Hill, 1926
Date1926
watercolor
Not on view
William Henry Holmes, Blossoms, 1927, watercolor, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Anna Bartsch Dunne, 1962.4.18
Blossoms
Date1927
watercolor
Not on view

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      On Wednesday, March 1, 2023, artist and filmmaker Alison O’Daniel joined Saisha Grayson, time-based media curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, for a virtual screening and conversation. Watch their discussion about O’Daniel’s film practice that is also an experimental deep dive into sound, music, and communication systems from a Deaf/Hard of Hearing perspective. The live program discussion was sparked by excerpts from O’Daniel’s feature, The Tuba Thieves (2023), which premiered in January at Sundance Film Festival. The film spins off from a true news story about tubas stolen from multiple Los Angeles high school bands into a meditation on sound loss, re-creation, and transmutation across a series of historical and fictional narratives. This program was part of SAAM’s fifth annual Women Filmmakers Festival, which was presented completely online and ran from March 1-8, 2023, in honor of Women’s History Month. The 2023 festival served as prelude to Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies, an exhibition that highlights how film and video artists incorporate musical strategies, themes and references into their work. The highlighted filmmakers, Vivienne Dick and Alison O'Daniel, consistently bring this same synergy to their cinematic offerings.