April 17, 2020

Stay tuned for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Virtual Showcase!

April 17, 2020/ Visual Communications

We are proud to announce our Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Virtual Showcase, slated for Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May. The Virtual Showcase aims to highlight artists whose stories are critical at this moment. From celebrating our histories and cultures, to mobilizing our communities to be socially and politically active, we are looking forward to presenting FREE films and panels to keep us connected.

April 17, 2020

VC Connect #3: A Call to Action

April 17, 2020/ Visual Communications

“Advocacy cinema” has always been a hallmark of Visual Communications’ role within the Asian American Movement, and this selection of short works live up to that lofty legacy. Featuring films from both the Armed With a Camera and Digital Histories programs, a “call to action” is indeed apropos for the times we currently live in.

April 15, 2020

VC to be a part of Grand Park’s Our L.A. Voices: A Pop-up Arts+Culture Fest

April 15, 2020/ Visual Communications

Grand Park’s popular spring arts experience, Grand Park’s Our L.A. Voices: A Pop-up Arts+Culture Fest, goes virtual as Grand Park celebrates the richness and resilience of Los Angeles’ arts community with a free performing and visual arts exhibition, featuring some films produced by VC’s Digital Histories and Armed With a Camera filmmakers.

April 14, 2020

Ava DuVernay Launches Array Grants To Support Arts Organizations Focused On People Of Color And Women

April 14, 2020/ Visual Communications

Thanks to Ava DuVernay and her foundation ARRAY Alliance, Visual Communications is honored to be a recipient of an ARRAY GRANT. We are grateful for the support to continue our work.

April 13, 2020

Emergency Funding and Artist Resource List

April 13, 2020/ Visual Communications

With the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), we understand that it has been an extremely challenging time for our creative community. We recognize that many people are feeling anxious about the immediate future and the loss of income. We are compiling a list of as many emergency funding sources and additional resources for artists as we can find, and we will continue to add to this listing as more resources become known and available.

April 10, 2020

VC Connect #2: American Me

April 10, 2020/ Visual Communications

The full range of “Americanness” is emphatically expressed through this selection of works from Visual Communications’ vanguard Armed With a Camera (AWC) Fellowship for Emerging Media Artists, a program which develops the next generation of Asian American and Pacific Islander artists to capture their world and stories. No proof of citizenship needed here, and none asked.

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