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The California Arts Council announced 441 grant awards in project and operational support for nonprofit organizations and units of government throughout the state of California. Visual Communications is grateful to be a recipient of the 2020-21 Arts & Cultural Organizations General Operating Relief Award.

We are thrilled to be a recipient of the LA Arts Recovery Fund! As one of 90 nonprofits receiving grants, we are humbled to be recognized as one of “America’s Cultural Treasures,” and are excited to continue serving our community and contributing to the rich cultural fabric and economic recovery of LA County.

Visual Communications has been approved for a Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support our annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. We look forward to being able to continue our work with the Festival.

Visual Communications is proud to announce that we have received a prestigious community-based archives grant from New York-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which will enable VC to complete “Making Memories Matter Again,” a years-long process to digitize, preserve, and activate the “born-on-film” component of its Asian Pacific American Photographic Archive.

Visual Communications is grateful to be a recipient of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture (Arts and Culture) CARES Act fund, awarded to 337 arts nonprofits suffering from COVID-19 business interruption and closures through its LA County COVID-19 Arts Relief Fund.

Visual Communications is grateful to be a recipient of the Sundance Institute Respond and Reimagine Plan, which has provided funds to directly support independent artists and organizations from around the world. The funding will support Visual Communications’ ongoing programs such as the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, the Armed With a Camera Fellowship for Emerging Artists, and our Digital Histories program for older adults.

Visual Communications is grateful to receive funding from California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act economic stabilization plan of 2020. The funding will support our VC Archives.

Visual Communications was among the 80 arts organizations that received grants as part of a broad-based COVID-19 relief effort for the visual arts in the Los Angeles region, provided by the J. Paul Getty Trust and the California Community Foundation. We are grateful to be one of the organizations to receive funding.

Visual Communications is pleased to announce that we are a recipient of the California Civil Liberties Grant for a fiscally sponsored project and a VC Archives project.

California Arts Council announced a grant award to Visual Communications as part of its Local Impact program, which will allow VC to organize another year of the annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

We are grateful to the Mike Kelley Foundation for an Artist Project Grant to work on a project that will explore the changing landscape of Little Tokyo's First Street North, started by our 2018 +LAB Artist-in-Residence Tina Takemoto. We look forward to celebrating how the diverse cultures and histories of Los Angeles converge in Little Tokyo.

Visual Communications is excited to announce that it has received one of 35 preservation grants from the San Francisco-based National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) to preserve and restore two of the organization’s signature film productions, WATARIDORI: BIRDS OF PASSAGE (1976) and HITO HATA: RAISE THE BANNER (1980).

Visual Communications is pleased to announce that we are a recipient of the California Civil Liberties Grant for two of our fiscally sponsored projects and a VC Archives project.

We are excited to announce that Visual Communications has been approved for a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman. We look forward to working with the NEA to finalize the grant paperwork and are appreciative of the agency’s support.

Visual Communications was just awarded a 2017-18 Organizational Grant Program grant from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors! We are happy to receive funding to continue our Armed with a Camera Fellowship program, which will be entering its sixteenth season this fall.

The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today 44 recipients of its 2017 FilmCraft and FilmWatch grants. Visual Communications is one of the recipients of the grants for the Armed With a Camera Fellowship Program.

In a press statement released July 7, the California Arts Council has announced a grant award of $56,000 to Visual Communications as part of its Creative California Communities program. The grant will be utilized to expand FfF Interactive Little Tokyo!, a multi-format transmedia project that was a highlight of the 2016 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Visual Communications was one of only forty-one grantees statewide for this program.