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Neon as Soulcraft & RugLife @SFMCD

SADC recently produced the audio tours for two more recent exhibitions at San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Design: RugLife, which is showing currently through April 20, and Neon as Soulcraft, which ran through November last year.

Biographical and other curatorial text were provided by the museum and incorporated into the tours. Wayfinding and description of the exhibition pieces were written by Project Lead Cheryl Green and Oliver Baker. Cheryl also narrated and edited the audio. Blind QC was provided by Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Robert Kingett.

Visit the exhibition pages and scroll down to the “Audio Tours” links near the bottom to listen to a tour or read the transcript. The tours and the pages remain online after the shows end. Two other exhibitions SADC described are, Mr. Roboto and Indie Folk.

#CherylGreen #NefertitiBlindQC #OliverBaker #RobertKingett #SADC

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.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #CherylNarrator #CherylProjectLead #CherylWriter #KensukeNakamura #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverNarrator #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #SADC #TanjaMilojevic #ThomasReid

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.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #CherylNarrator #CherylProjectLead #CherylWriter #KensukeNakamura #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverNarrator #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #SADC #TanjaMilojevic #ThomasReid

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.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #CherylNarrator #CherylProjectLead #CherylWriter #KensukeNakamura #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverNarrator #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #SADC #TanjaMilojevic #ThomasReid

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 #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.

We’ll update this post as soon as descriptions become available for the rest of the Collection.

Descriptions written by Project Lead Cheryl Green, Oliver Baker, and Kensuke Nakamura. Blind QC by Robert Kingett and Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Narration by Oliver, Barbara Faison, Cheryl, Nefertiti, and Thomas Reid. Audio editing by Oliver, Cheryl, and Thomas.

https://socialaudiodescription.com/2024/10/07/anderson-collection-at-stanford-university/

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #CherylNarrator #CherylProjectLead #CherylWriter #KensukeNakamura #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverNarrator #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #SADC #ThomasReid

Renegades: Disabled Icons in October on PBS

SADC produced Audio Description for a new digital series of five documentary short films showcasing the lives and cultural contributions of little-known historical figures with disabilities called Renegades. In April, 2025, the series won a Webby Award for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (Series or Channel).

Hosted by award-winning musician and disability rights champion Lachi, Renegades premiered Tuesdays, October 1 – October 29 on the American Masters YouTube channel, PBS.org and the PBS App in honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

Overall accessibility for the series, including ASL interpretation, captioning, and descriptive transcript, was coordinated and created by D-PAN, the Deaf Professional Artist Network.

For the AD production, Cheryl Green was the project lead, as well as writer, along with Oliver Baker. Narration by Thomas Reid and non-collective member Tanja Milojevic. Blind QC by Robert Kingett, Bex León, and Nefertiti Matos Olivares.

The Renegades World Premiere onsite premiere was free at The Kennedy Center on September 29th, 2024, and in Manhattan at the Marlene Meyerson JCC, co-sponsored by ReelAbilities Film Festival on October 1st, 2024. Please note that some onsite screenings are planned to have live audio description, not the SADC-produced AD.

Visit the Renegades page on PBS to learn where to watch online or on the app with audio description, ASL, and captions.

#CherylGreen #CherylGreenWriter #CherylProjectLead #MarLeón #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #ThomasReid

Renegades: Disabled Icons in October on PBS

SADC produced Audio Description for a new digital series of five documentary short films showcasing the lives and cultural contributions of little-known historical figures with disabilities called Renegades. In April, 2025, the series won a Webby Award for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (Series or Channel).

Hosted by award-winning musician and disability rights champion Lachi, Renegades premiered Tuesdays, October 1 – October 29 on the American Masters YouTube channel, PBS.org and the PBS App in honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

Overall accessibility for the series, including ASL interpretation, captioning, and descriptive transcript, was coordinated and created by D-PAN, the Deaf Professional Artist Network.

For the AD production, Cheryl Green was the project lead, as well as writer, along with Oliver Baker. Narration by Thomas Reid and non-collective member Tanja Milojevic. Blind QC by Robert Kingett, Bex León, and Nefertiti Matos Olivares.

The Renegades World Premiere onsite premiere was free at The Kennedy Center on September 29th, 2024, and in Manhattan at the Marlene Meyerson JCC, co-sponsored by ReelAbilities Film Festival on October 1st, 2024. Please note that some onsite screenings are planned to have live audio description, not the SADC-produced AD.

Visit the Renegades page on PBS to learn where to watch online or on the app with audio description, ASL, and captions.

#CherylGreen #CherylGreenWriter #CherylProjectLead #MarLeón #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #ThomasReid

Renegades: Disabled Icons in October on PBS

SADC produced Audio Description for a new digital series of five documentary short films showcasing the lives and cultural contributions of little-known historical figures with disabilities called Renegades. In April, 2025, the series won a Webby Award for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (Series or Channel).

Hosted by award-winning musician and disability rights champion Lachi, Renegades premiered Tuesdays, October 1 – October 29 on the American Masters YouTube channel, PBS.org and the PBS App in honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

Overall accessibility for the series, including ASL interpretation, captioning, and descriptive transcript, was coordinated and created by D-PAN, the Deaf Professional Artist Network.

For the AD production, Cheryl Green was the project lead, as well as writer, along with Oliver Baker. Narration by Thomas Reid and non-collective member Tanja Milojevic. Blind QC by Robert Kingett, Bex León, and Nefertiti Matos Olivares.

The Renegades World Premiere onsite premiere was free at The Kennedy Center on September 29th, 2024, and in Manhattan at the Marlene Meyerson JCC, co-sponsored by ReelAbilities Film Festival on October 1st, 2024. Please note that some onsite screenings are planned to have live audio description, not the SADC-produced AD.

Visit the Renegades page on PBS to learn where to watch online or on the app with audio description, ASL, and captions.

#CherylGreen #CherylGreenWriter #CherylProjectLead #MarLeón #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #ThomasReid

The Last Jews of Guantánamo

Los Últimos Judíos de Guantánamo (The Last Jews of Guantánamo) provides a glimpse of a tiny community at a unique moment for Jews in Cuba. In the city of Guantánamo, following the liberalization of Cuban policies against religion, two women in their 80s are finally to be bat mitzvah; to ritually proclaim their faith and community with other Jews. Members of their historically Jewish family have come out and traveled from abroad for the occasion.

SADC produced audio description for the film, which premieres July 27, 2024 as part of a program on Jews of color, called “Peripheral Visions”, at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

Project Lead: Cheryl Green. Writer: Oliver Baker. Blind QC and narrator: Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Audio editor: Kensuke Nakamura. Subtitles read by Oliver Baker, Barbara Faison, and Cheryl Green.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #CherylProjectLead #KensukeNakamura #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #NefertitiNarrator #OliverBaker #OliverWriter #SADC

Last winter, student curators worked with two disability justice mentors from Melanie Hood-Wilson and Associates and six local disabled accessibility consultants on improving access for their Baltimore-based exhibitions of Elizabeth Talford Scott’s art. Students come from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Morgan State University, Johns Hopkins, and Coppin University.

Members of the group will present about their experiences designing accessible exhibitions at the Maryland Citizens for the Arts Summit, held June 20th and 21st, 2024. At this presentation, they’ll screen the audio described short film, Nothing Without Us: A Baltimore Story, which documents the collaboration.

Written by Project Lead Cheryl Green, Blind QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares, narrated and audio edited by Thomas Reid.

https://socialaudiodescription.com/2024/06/12/nothing-without-us-a-baltimore-story/

#CherylGreen #CherylGreenWriter #CherylProjectLead #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #SADC #ThomasReid

Last winter, student curators worked with two disability justice mentors from Melanie Hood-Wilson and Associates and six local disabled accessibility consultants on improving access for their Baltimore-based exhibitions of Elizabeth Talford Scott’s art. Students come from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Morgan State University, Johns Hopkins, and Coppin University.

Members of the group will present about their experiences designing accessible exhibitions at the Maryland Citizens for the Arts Summit, held June 20th and 21st, 2024. At this presentation, they’ll screen the audio described short film, Nothing Without Us: A Baltimore Story, which documents the collaboration.

Written by Project Lead Cheryl Green, Blind QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares, narrated and audio edited by Thomas Reid.

https://socialaudiodescription.com/2024/06/12/nothing-without-us-a-baltimore-story/

#CherylGreen #CherylGreenWriter #CherylProjectLead #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #SADC #ThomasReid

2024 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

Here’s SADC receiving thanks from master of ceremonies Nic Novicki at the award ceremony.

The SADC provided audio description for 15 of the 16 finalists for the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, now in its 11th year. (The winner for Best Film, entitled Audio Description, had AD already supplied and central to its story.)

The films each showcase deafness or disability, and had to be scripted, shot and finished all within five days, all by volunteers, and this year all in the form of a buddy comedy.

Prizes are awarded in six categories. At the same time, winners also receive exposure and introductions to entertainment industry professionals and executives.

This was the first year in which finalist films were provided professional AD in advance of the winners being announced. Given the contest’s constraints, the description had to happen fast and under secrecy.  SADC is proud to have been the EDFC’s choice.

Project Lead was Thomas Reid. Writers were Cheryl Green, Oliver Baker, and Kensuke Nakamura. Blind QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Robert Kingett. Narrated by Thomas, Cheryl, Oliver, Nefertiti, and Barbara Faison.

Check out a playlist of the open captioned, open audio described finalist films.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylAudioEditor #CherylGreen #CherylGreenWriter #CherylNarrator #EastersealsDisabilityFilmChallenge #KensukeNakamura #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverNarrator #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #ThomasReid

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/

#CherylAudioEditor #CherylGreen #CherylNarrator #CherylProjectLead #CherylWriter #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #SADC

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/

#CherylGreen #CherylProjectLead #CherylWriter #EllenGould #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #NefertitiNarrator #SADC #ThomasReid

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/

#CherylGreen #CherylProjectLead #CherylWriter #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #SADC #ThomasReid #VoiceOfAmerica

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/

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #CherylWriter #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #NefertitiNarrator #NefertitiProjectLead #OliverBaker #SADC #ThomasReid