Press Releases
BAVC Media announces Susie Cagle as Summer 2015 Artist-In-Residence
San Francisco, CA -- Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) is pleased to announce that Susie Cagle will be the Summer 2015 Resident for BAVC Media’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, made possible in part through the generosity of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The AIR program will give Cagle access to BAVC Media’s state-of-the-art technical facilities and in-house expertise, along with the opportunity to produce work in collaboration with BAVC Media programs. Cagle plans to work on an interactive, animated piece about the growth of contract labor in the American workforce, a topic she’s been researching [...]
National Endowment for the Arts awards BAVC Media $100,000
San Francisco, CA -- Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) received $100,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to continue providing high-quality preservation services to artists and small- to mid-sized arts and cultural heritage organizations through the Preservation Access Program. Since the program began in 2013, BAVC Media has received over 150 inquiries, and has preserved more than 500 hours of media from 27 different collections, making artistic and creative content available for screenings, broadcast, installation, online delivery or exhibitions that reach thousands of viewers each year. With this new round of funding, BAVC Media will be able [...]
BAVC Media welcomes 2015 ACLS public fellow Nilofar Gardezi
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Francisco, CA – Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) is excited to welcome 2015 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Fellow, Nilofar Gardezi. As Program Impact Analyst, Gardezi's work will support all of BAVC Media's initiatives. She will develop assessment and evaluation methodologies for BAVC Media's programs and services and create a series of measurements to assess BAVC Media's impact locally, regionally, and nationally. Nilofar Gardezi is a highly skilled and experienced educator, researcher, and writer. For over a decade, she has worked as an educator at UC Berkeley, most recently as a Lecturer, [...]
US Department of Commerce, Aspen Institute announce BAVC Media’S participation in the national “Communities That Work” partnership
San Francisco, CA – Seven regional teams across the United States have been selected to participate in the Communities that Work Partnership (CTW Partnership), a new joint project of the Workforce Strategies Initiative (AspenWSI) of the Aspen Institute and the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The CTW Partnership is an effort to strengthen regional economies by equipping American workers with the skills needed for 21st century jobs and accelerating industry-led workforce development and training efforts. BAVC Media and its team organizations were selected through a nationally competitive review process to be one of the [...]
BAVC Media announces Tom Comitta as Fall 2015 Artist-In-Residence
San Francisco, CA -- Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) is pleased to announce that Tom Comitta will be the Fall 2015 Resident for BAVC Media’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, made possible in part through the generosity of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The AIR program will give Comitta access to BAVC Media’s state-of-the-art technical facilities and in-house expertise, along with the opportunity to produce work in collaboration with BAVC Media programs. Comitta plans to develop new video works to accompany future live performances of an in-progress Sci-Fi musical through multimedia writing workshops open to the BAVC Media community and [...]
