Visual Communications is a story of peoples and communities in movement. Movements shaped by imagination and adventure, desperation and courage. Movements across oceans, neighborhoods, generations, and identities. Movements that carry stories forward and create new possibilities for the future.

For more than 55 years, Visual Communications has empowered AANHPI communities to tell their own stories. Stories that move between generations, across neighborhoods, and through time. They travel through memories, photographs, films, conversations, and acts of creative expression. They connect us to where we've been and help us imagine where we're going.

This year, we invite our community to join Storytellers in Movement, a fundraising campaign that celebrates the people who move our stories forward.

Through the Armed With a Camera Fellowship (AWC), emerging media artists become ancestors-in-training, creating stories and presenting truths about our communities. They are heirs to that heritage and their stories help bind us to that legacy of our struggles, of and for movements, created through media.

See all our AWC Alumni and Projects here.

Through Digital Histories (DH), older adults engage in memory work, preserving personal and collective histories, ensuring that lived experiences, cultural traditions, and community memories continue to move forward.

See all our DH Alumni and Projects here.

Together, these programs create an intergenerational cycle of storytelling, one that honors the past while investing in the future.

We're incredibly grateful to our major funders: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Alan Kondo & Ruth Wakabayashi, the LA County Department of Arts and Culture, the California Arts Council, and Keiro, whose generosity has helped us raise over $100,000 toward this year's goal.

Now, we're asking our community to help us raise the final $50,000. Your support helps provide artist stipends, mentorship, production resources, workshops, and public screenings that ensure these stories are produced, presented, and preserved for generations to come. Every gift directly invests in the emerging artists, elders, and communities who carry our stories forward.

To donate by mail, please make a check payable to "Visual Communications" and mail to:

Visual Communications
120 Judge John Aiso Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Please include "Storytellers in Movement" and which program you would like to support in the memo.

Storytellers in Movement

Storytellers move us forward. Support our Armed With a Camera and Digital Histories artist development programs!