Anderson Collection at Stanford University

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, the museum recently began rolling out audio and written image descriptions, written and produced by SADC, for every artwork in their collection. The project of describing the whole collection is expected to be complete in 2025.

For those itching to read or listen, already a few dozen artworks have their descriptions available on their individual pages of the Anderson Collection website. These include: The Coat II; Totem Lesson I; Chain Gang; Gansevoort Street; Before, Again IV; Full Time, Number 64; Transfiguration III; Lucifer; Homage to the Square, Diffused; Pendulum; Summer Image (For My Mother); Untitled No. 21 (by Martin); Hans Bricker In The Tropics; Untitled (1969) (by McCraken); The Tale; Living Curve; Untitled (by Irwin); Italian Summer; Sky Garden; Timeless Clock; 1957-J No. 1 (PH-142); black painting; Approach; Plumb Bob; Sinking Brick Plates; and Burn and Glitter. The museum will continue adding the written and audio-recorded descriptions as they become available. We anticipate completing the project in Fall 2025.

Descriptions written by Project Lead Cheryl Green, Oliver Baker, Kensuke Nakamura, and non-member associates Eboni Gaytan, Noah Kemp, Casaundra Freeman, and Sean Collins. Blind QC by Robert Kingett and Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Narration by Oliver, Barbara Faison, Cheryl, Nefertiti, Thomas Reid, and non-member associate Tanja Milojevic. Audio editing by Oliver, Cheryl, Thomas, and Tanja.

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Tripping Hazard (Field Studio 1)

Tripping Hazard (Field Studio 1) is a collaborative art installation by Carmen and Antonio Papalia, which stood on view at the Migros museum in Zurich, Switzerland, October 2023 through January 2024 for their Interdependencies exhibition. View and listen to the description SADC produced for the photos and the videos of the piece.

https://vimeo.com/959172273

https://vimeo.com/959189028

Photos: Writer Cheryl Green
Video: Writer Oliver BakerNarrator, Audio Editor, Blind QC & Project Lead: Thomas Reid

SADC produced a collection of audio tours for two exhibitions concurrently showing at San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Design: Mr. Roboto and Indie Folk. For each, SADC produced an “At-a-Glance” tour as well as more detailed “Immersive” tour. Scroll down to the “Audio Tours” links near the bottom of the exhibition pages online to listen or read the transcripts. All the tours describe the layout and a selection of four exhibits, and they also explain the concept and background of the exhibitions with information from the curators.

Writing by Project Lead Cheryl Green and Oliver Baker. Blind QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Rick Hammond (not an SADC member). Narration and audio editing also by Cheryl Green.

https://socialaudiodescription.com/2024/04/22/museum-of-craft-and-design/

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SADC produced AD for Emmy-winning writer and Broadway performer Ellen Gould, whose performance of Seeing Stars is part of a documentary currently in progress. SADC provided AD for a newly available preview of the film.

Seeing Stars is Gould’s most personal project in two decades of writing and solo musical performance, speaking about the influence and impact of vision loss in her life and lives of others with inherited, late childhood-onset macular degeneration—or Stargardt, from which the title, Seeing Stars, takes leap. 

Listen to the introductory or pre-show AD to learn about Ellen, the Seeing Stars show set, and more. You could also read the pre-show transcript.

AD written by Project Lead Cheryl Green. Blind QC and narration by Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Audio editing by Thomas Reid.

https://socialaudiodescription.com/2024/02/09/seeing-stars-a-film-with-vision/

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At a public high school in Bangkok, teacher Damkerng Mungthanya is dedicated to helping students experience the joys of learning English. Blind since birth, Damkerng is also the only teacher with a disability in his school. In Thailand, 2.1 million people with disabilities are registered with the government, but only 6 percent of those of working age are employed. Damkerng strives to move ahead in his career and inspire more opportunities for people like him in the workforce.

Extraordinary Teacher Damkerng makes its streaming debut on VOA+ on December 21, 2023.

Audio description is available in English and Thai. To access, click on the settings icon and select either the “English (United States)” or “Thai” audio track. The film has open captions in English.

SADC produced the English audio description. Written by Project Lead Cheryl Green. Blind QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Audio edited and mixed by Thomas Reid.

Thai translation by Nopparat Chaichalearmmongkol and Wasamon Audjarint. Voices by Nopparat Chaichalearmmongkol, Yiamyut Sutthichaya, and Wasamon Audjarint. Recording and mixing by Thomas Leahy.

https://socialaudiodescription.com/2023/12/21/voice-of-americas-extaordinary-teacher-damkerng/

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SADC wrote and produced description for the Guggenheim Museum exhibition Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, which runs October 20, 2023 through April 7, 2024 in New York. The Guggenheim has made the audio also available on-demand on the Going Dark page of their website, and made Going Dark the focus of its Mind’s Eye virtual program 6:30-8:30 pm EST on November 13, 2023.

SADC produced 15 of the 29 tracks in their entirety: Writing, reviewing, narrating, recording and editing the sound. Guggenheim staff wrote 11, which SADC provided them notes on, and as with the others narrated and made into sound tracks.

Cheryl Green and Oliver Baker were the writers. Barbara Faison, Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Thomas Reid narrated. Thomas provided also the audio editing and with assistance from Cheryl, Nefertiti also served as Project Lead. All five members contributed to QC.

https://socialaudiodescription.com/2023/11/04/going-dark-the-guggenheim/

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