Meet our 2025 Armed With a Camera Fellow: Libby Chun – a Korean American artist born and raised in Texas and South Korea with a BFA from Dodge College

Meet our 2025 Armed With a Camera Fellow: Meloddy Gao, a Chinese American filmmaker, multimedia artist, and community organizer.

Meet our 2025 Armed With a Camera Fellow: Alexandra “Lexie” Orr – a queer, mixed Asian American filmmaker who explores her identity and cultural upbringing through her work.

Meet our 2025 Armed With a Camera Fellow: Matthew Kim – a Korean American artist based in Los Angeles, California. Working in film, photography, and printmaking, his works engage with working class Asian American perspectives.

Meet our 2025 Armed With a Camera Fellow: Coffee Kang – a mixed-media artist based in Los Angeles, primarily working with photo, video, installation, and performance.

Meet our 2025 Armed With a Camera Fellow: Benjamin Pola – a first-generation Samoan American writer, passionate about uplifting and amplifying Pasifika voices through his storytelling.

Meet our VC Archives Artists-in-Residence: Linda Wei! As a first-generation Chinese-American adopted into a Black and mixed-race family, she found refuge in the visual arts amid a tangle of identities. Ever since, she has fiercely championed the right to choose one’s own name and tell one’s own story.

Meet our VC Archives Artists-in-Residence: Habiba Hassaan! Habiba is an Egyptian filmmaker and a multi-disciplinary artist with a BFA degree in animation from California State University Long Beach and a minor in Photography.

Meet our VC Archives Artists-in-Residence: Derek Benig! Derek is a writer, director and content producer based in Los Angeles, CA by way of SF, Boulder and Boston. He is an alumni of Emerson College.

Meet our VC Archives Artists-in-Residence: Mia Barnett! Mia is a freelance filmmaker and organizer based in Los Angeles with a passion for building community.