Meet our AWC Fellow: Libby Chun
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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
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Meet our AWC Fellow: Meloddy Gao
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Meet our 2025 Armed With a Camera Fellow: Meloddy Gao, a Chinese American filmmaker, multimedia artist, and community organizer.
Read MoreMeet our AWC Fellow: Alexandra “Lexie” Orr
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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.
Read MoreMeet our AWC Fellow: Matthew Kim
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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.
Read MoreMeet our AWC Fellow: Coffee Kang
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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.
Read MoreMeet our AWC Fellow: Benjamin Pola
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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.
Read MoreMeet a VC Archives Artist in Residence: Linda Wei
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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.
Read MoreMeet a VC Archives Artist in Residence: Habiba Hassaan
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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.
Read MoreMeet a VC Archives Artist in Residence: Derek Benig
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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.
Read MoreMeet a VC Archives Artist in Residence: Mia Barnett
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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.
Read MoreMeet a VC Intern: Gillian Gee
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Meet Gillian Gee, our UCLA Mellon MLIS Graduate Intern! She is currently a second-year MLIS student at UCLA specializing in Archival Studies.
Read MoreVisual Communications Receives 2025 Groundwork Grants
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Visual Communications is grateful to be a recipient of the 2025 Groundwork Grants to support the preservation of the VC Archives.
Read MoreMeet a VC Intern: Kate Ahn
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Meet Kate Ahn, our Archives Exhibition Intern this summer! Kate is a recent graduate from UCLA with a degree in film.
Read MoreMeet a VC Intern: Isaac Bolanos
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Meet Isaac Bolanos, our Archives Preservation Intern this summer! Isaac is joining us as a part of the Getty Marrow Internship Program to help with managing the archives.
Read MoreMeet a VC Intern: Valerie Naing
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Meet Valerie Naing, our Artistic Programs Intern this summer! Valerie is an outgoing UCLA student in the Fall majoring in Philosophy and minoring in Asian-American Studies.
Read MoreMeet a VC Intern: Penelope Jia
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Meet Penelope Jia, our Development and Communications Intern this summer! Penelope is a D.C. native entering her third year at Occidental College with a major in Economics and a minor in Asian Studies.
Read MoreVisual Communications Receives 2025 NEA Grant for Arts Projects
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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.
Read MoreMeet a VC Intern: Blair Black
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Meet Blair Black, our newest UCLA Mellon MLIS Graduate Intern! Blair is a L.A. native in her second year of the Masters Library Information Science (MLIS) program at UCLA with a specialization in (Media) Archival Studies.
Read MoreVisual Communications Receives Perenchio Foundation General Operating Support Grant
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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.
Read MoreMeet a VC Intern: Esperanza Bey
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Meet Esperanza Bey, our UCLA Mellon MLIS Graduate Intern! Esperanza is an Archivist/Librarian and recent graduate of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Library & Information Science program with a specialization in Archival Studies
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