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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.
We Went to Joshua Tree!
As part of our growing practice to center wellness and joy, Visual Communications Staff and 2024 Armed With a Camera Fellows took a renewal trip to Joshua Tree!
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.
AWC Spotlight | Kristina Wong
Performance artist, comedian, writer, and Pulitzer Prize finalist in Drama, Kristina Wong describes her aesthetic as “subversive, humorous, and endearingly inappropriate”, Wong employs humor to address difficult subjects, social issues, and amplify marginalized experiences.
Read more about how AWC shaped the future of Kristina’s performance work and what projects she has been working on.
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.
We Went to Hawai'i!
As part of our growing practice to center wellness and joy, Visual Communications Staff and Armed With a Camera Fellows took a renewal trip to Hawai'i.
“I loved connecting with people in a relaxed and casual atmosphere. It was really important as I came away, not only feeling closer to everyone, but also really valuing the community we have and inspired to keep building community.”
A Festival in Flux: VC and its Film Festival 1999 - 2003
The years 1998 through 2003 were game-changing years for Visual Communications, as the organization shifted from a creation based organization to a talent incubator with a focus on developing programs like the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Take a look at some photos from the VC Archives that were selected by our 2020 Winter Quarter Program Associates from UCLA.
COMMUNITY TREASURES Set for Dec. 2 as Part of TAKACHIZU Gathering Space
As part of the ongoing community gathering space TAKACHIZU, Visual Communications will present a two-part screening series to share just some of its award-winning filmography. To wrap up: a Dec. 2 program of lovingly preserved home movies that observes the development of Little Tokyo during two different periods of its ongoing history.
Senior in Motion: Digital Histories Fellow Michi Tanioka
A veteran of the Digital Histories program since 2006, Michi Tanioka has produced a body of documentary works that comment incisively on the world in which older Asian Pacific Americans find themselves. In an interview with Visual Communications Development Associate Connie Oh, Michi talks about her latest film IT AIN'T HEAVEN, BUT CLOSE 'NUFF, and the challenges of negotiating life in one's Golden Years.
Never Too Old: Digital Histories Fellow Fran Ito
While not one of the original set of fellows who signed on for the Digital Histories program at its inception in 2004, Fran Ito's many short documentaries have proven to be among the most-anticipated offerings at recent editions of The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. How does a woman in her mid-80s keep "pushing the envelope?" In this conversation with Visual Communications Development Associate Connie Oh, Fran shares her perspectives on being creative long into her retirement years, and intimates that there is lots more up her sleeve...