Visual Communications Receives 2025 NEA Grant for Arts Projects

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.

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Visual Communications Receives Perenchio Foundation General Operating Support Grant

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.

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Visual Communications Receives 2024 NEA Grant for Arts Projects

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.

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Visual Communications Receives 2023 NEA Grant for Arts Projects

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.

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Visual Communications Recognized as One of "America's Cultural Treasures" and Receives LA Arts Recovery Fund Grant

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.

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Visual Communications Receives Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funding

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.

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Visual Communications a Recipient of the Sundance Institute Respond and Reimagine Plan

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.

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400 Artists and 80 Arts Organizations Receive $2.7 Million in COVID-19 Relief Grants

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.

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VC Receives a 2020 Artist Project Grant from the Mike Kelley Foundation

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.

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Visual Communications Receives National Film Preservation Foundation Funding

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).

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