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Visual Communications Receives 2025 Groundwork Grants
Visual Communications is grateful to be a recipient of the 2025 Groundwork Grants to support the preservation of the VC Archives.
Visual Communications Receives 2025 NEA Grant for Arts Projects
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awards over $31.8 million in funding to support art organizations nationwide. Visual Communications is grateful to be a recipient of the 2025 Grants for Arts Projects Award to support the Los Angeles Asian American Pacific Film Festival.
Visual Communications Receives Perenchio Foundation General Operating Support Grant
Visual Communications is thrilled to be 1 of 35 Los Angeles organizations to receive a General Operating Support Grant. With the support of the Perenchio Foundation, we can continue to deliver high-quality arts programming and expand our capacity to serve our community.
Visual Communications Receives 2024 NEA Grant for Arts Projects
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awards over $27.1 million in funding to support art organizations nationwide. Visual Communications is grateful to be a recipient of the 2024 Grants for Arts Projects Award to support the Los Angeles Asian American Pacific Film Festival.
Visual Communications Receives 2023 NEA Grant for Arts Projects
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced the first round of recommended awards for fiscal year 2023, with more than $34 million in funding to support the arts nationwide. This is the first of the NEA’s two major grant announcements each fiscal year and includes grants to organizations through the NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects, Challenge America, and Research Awards categories. Visual Communications is grateful to be a recipient of the 2023 Grants for Arts Projects Award to support the Los Angeles Asian American Pacific Film Festival.
Visual Communications Receives a 2021 California Arts Council Grant
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.
Visual Communications Recognized as One of "America's Cultural Treasures" and Receives LA Arts Recovery Fund Grant
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 to Receive Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
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 Receives Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funding
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 a Recipient of LACAC CARES Act Funds
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 a Recipient of the Sundance Institute Respond and Reimagine Plan
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 a Recipient of California Humanities CA CARES Grant
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.
400 Artists and 80 Arts Organizations Receive $2.7 Million in COVID-19 Relief Grants
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.
VC Receives California Civil Liberties Grants for Community Projects
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.
VC Awarded California Arts Council 2019-2020 “Local Impact” Grant
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.
VC Receives a 2020 Artist Project Grant from the Mike Kelley Foundation
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 Receives National Film Preservation Foundation Funding
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 a Recipient of the California Civil Liberties Grant
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.
VC to Receive 2019 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
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.
VC Receives an Organizational Program Grant from LA County Arts Commission
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.