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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In Focus: AWC 2022-2023

In Focus: AWC 2022-2023

Intersections and convergences are effective ways for us to safely connect with each other. But we also need to be brave and welcome collisions. It’s easy to coalesce as an Asian American & Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander community when we’re going against hate and white supremacy. However, the required work needed for us to build collective power is to confront issues that divide us. From across the dinner table to discuss why Black Lives Matter with our families, to acknowledging Asian settler colonialism in Oceania, these power structures are replicated and represented in media. Most often, our always-present Indigenous interconnections are made invisible.

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A Festival in Flux: VC and its Film Festival 1999 - 2003

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.

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