Meet Danielle Alhassid

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Danielle Alhassid. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Danielle below.

Danielle, so many exciting things to discuss, we can’t wait. Thanks for joining us and we appreciate you sharing your wisdom with our readers. So, maybe we can start by discussing optimism and where your optimism comes from?

My optimism comes from doing what I love. Each project slowly unravels until it becomes a complex mechanism with its own life, presented as a video installation, a print series or a performance. I feel so much joy when I’m in the process of making, sharing thoughts about my research and work with people, learning what excites them, and seeing how it resonates in my work. Art allows me to connect, to create community, and to build relationships that feel meaningful. That exchange and feeling of belonging is what keeps me hopeful.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

I am an artist working with animation, installation, print, and performance. My work explores the physical and intimate process of language formation, memory, and the ways bodies carry history. I work with stop- motion animation, building images frame by frame.

What excites me most is the sense of connection that happens through the work. My practice is deeply rooted in community, and I see art as a meeting point where sensual experiences , stories, and people connect.

Recently I have been developing an ongoing installation titled Go Forth O Daughters, which draws on Yiddish women’s literary history. It was presented at the Amsterdam Museum with the support of Asylum Arts grant and the Anolic Family foundation and will be shown in NYC in a new iteration next year. The piece is a constellation of animations and archival objects. It was created through collaborations with scholars, archivists and performers.

I am also completing a print series at the Lower East Side Printshop in NYC, where I am an artist in residence. This series is focusing on the language of birds. It is a new direction in my work, following multiple projects that explored human conversations. This upcoming project will explore what birds have to say.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

I would say curiosity, persistence, and collaboration are really important qualities for me.

Curiosity leads my work. I follow overlooked texts and questions that pull me in to them, often involving language, women’s representation in archives and stories that echo across generations.

Persistence has been essential, especially working with stop motion and research-based projects. My work needs time to unfold and staying committed to it has taught me to trust my process.

Collaborations and conversations with scholars, family members and other artists continually expand my thinking.

For artists and creatives at the beginning of their journey, I would say: trust yourself and your process, follow your intuition, and build a supportive community and network of other artists, friends, and critical minds you can brainstorm with, collaborate with, and consult. We need people who can remind us of the difficult yet precious nature of being an artist, constantly accepted and rejected. This journey is ongoing.

What’s been one of your main areas of growth this year?

This is a great question to reflect on as the year ends. I started 2025 with a presentation of Go Forth O Daughters, a project I mentioned before. This video installation composed of five stop-motion channels was commissioned by the Amsterdam Museum in the Netherlands for a show framing women’s history. It was inspired by a book printed in the 17th century, dedicated to stories about women. That was a special moment where different skills I had been developing came together: my stop-motion practice, my historical research, and my fascination with archives. At the same time, I also presented a work in a group show at the Brooklyn Museum in New York that was based on a sexual poem in Yiddish. Having two museum presentations with works based on texts by and for women from the 17th century and the 1930s was a significant moment of growth, finding my way into institutions while being inspired by marginalized texts that are being noticed again as viewers encountered the works.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.daniellealhassid.com/
• Instagram: @dani.alha
• Other: Danielle Alhassid – official vimeo

  https://vimeo.com/user68693915

Image Credits

Portrait, Photo credit: Yi Hsuan Lai

Go Forth O Daughters, video installation and archival objects, Amsterdam museam, Photo credit: Amsterdam museum



Go Forth O Daughters, video installation and archival objects, Amsterdam museam 2025, Photo credit Senta De Vries


studio shot of the artist, Photo credit: Zohar Shitrit

Print studio view, Photo credit: the artist (Danielle Alhassid)

Print studio view_ Photo credit: the artist (Danielle Alhassid)

At the Vermont Studio Center as printmaking fellow, photo by : Sha Lue