Visual Communications Receives 2025 NEA Grant for Arts Projects

Visual Communications is grateful to be a recipient of the 2025 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grants for Arts Projects Award to support the Los Angeles Asian American Pacific Film Festival.

“The NEA is proud to continue our nearly 60 years of supporting the efforts of organizations and artists that help to shape our country’s vibrant arts sector and communities of all types across our nation,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD.

The NEA will award 1,127 grants for a total of $31,825,500 to support arts projects in 15 artistic disciplines and fields.

Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides expansive funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem, including opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector.

Each year, the NEA assembles panels of experts and knowledgeable laypeople with relevant expertise and experience to review NEA applications and rate them in accordance with published review criteria. More than 340 panelists reviewed the eligible applications for this round of funding. Recommendations were then presented to the National Council on the Arts. The council made its recommendations to the NEA Chair, who made the final decision on all grant awards.

For more information on other projects included in the NEA’s grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.