Alison is a smiling white woman with large brown glasses, long brown hair and windswept bangs wearing a black blouse and a peach flower bolo tie. She stands in front of a bougainvillea bush with bright pink flowers and her hands are on her hips.
Alison O’Daniel
Photo Credit: Caitlin Dennis
Director & Producer
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Alison O’Daniel (she/her) is a d/Deaf visual artist and filmmaker. Her film, The Tuba Thieves, premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS and Arte in 2024. Alison is a United States Artist 2022 Disability Futures Fellow, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2019 Creative Capital grantee. She is represented by Commonwealth and Council gallery in Los Angeles, and is the Suraj Israni Endowed Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts in the Visual Arts department at UCSD.

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(Egg)celerator Lab 2021
films by Alison O’Daniel
Still from The Tuba Thieves
The Tuba Thieves
Still from The Tuba Thieves
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Sarvnik Kaur is leaning against a paper wall and looks away from the camera. She has short hair, and wears a shirt.
Sarvnik Kaur
Photo courtesy Sarvnik Kaur
Robie Flores looks directly at the camera. Portrait in black and white.
Robie Flores
Photo courtesy Robie Flores