Visual Communications seeks to cultivate a rising generation of artists committed to social and political changes and movements, while preserving the legacy and vision of our communities. We seek to support artists who are committed to empowering communities and challenging perspectives through their creative works.

For the 2022 - 2023 cycle, we looked for filmmakers of Pasifika descent, who wish to utilize film to amplify the cultures, experiences, and perspectives of the indigenous peoples of Hawaiʻi, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Guåhan (Guam), Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Sāmoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, and additional islands throughout the Pacific region.

To understand the intention behind this year’s cohort, please read this letter from our Executive Director.

We look forward to creating community with this year's Fellows.

The Durfee Foundation, which “invests in extraordinary people who are making a better LA,” announced the inaugural cohort of Lark Awards recipients. Durfee’s Lark Awards support the collective care and well-being of staff at small Los Angeles-based nonprofit organizations with deep ties to the community. Each organization will receive $30,000 to spend as they see fit to meet the needs of their staff for replenishment. There are 15 organizations in this inaugural 2022 cohort. They are:

Visual Communications’ Historical “Cubes Exhibit” Restored And Debuts As Online Exhibit.

Visual Communications, the nation’s premier Asian American media arts organization, today announced the completion of restoration work of its inaugural production, AMERICA’S CONCENTRATION CAMPS. A mobile photographic exhibit first created as a commission of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), the “Cubes Exhibit,” as the photographic display is affectionately known, represented one of the first instances that the story of Japanese American relocation and confinement during World War II was made widely known to the public.