Dawn Black’s Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Story

This film highlights Dawn Black’s crucial role in documenting the Exxon Valdez oil spill as a videographer. Her work was instrumental in ensuring accurate records of the disaster were kept, providing a visual account that helped raise awareness and garner support for the cleanup efforts.

The Kodiak Remembers the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill History and Film
Course was made possible with funding from the Rasmuson
Foundation through the Arts in Education Fund, and is administered under contract, by the Alaska State Council on the Arts. Support and funding was also provided by the Kodiak Historical Society and Baranov Museum and the State of Alaska through the Alaska Historical Commission.

 

Workshop Info

The Kodiak Remembers the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill History and Film Course was made possible with funding from the Rasmuson Foundation through the Arts in Education Fund, and is administered under contract, by the Alaska State Council on the Arts. Support and funding was also provided by the Kodiak Historical Society and Baranov Museum and the State of Alaska through the Alaska Historical Commission.

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Land Acknowledgement

This video was filmed on Alutiiq (Sugpiaq) Land. Learn more about land acknowledgements at native-land.ca.