Visual Culture, Arts, and Media VCAM

Haverford’s Visual Culture, Arts, and Media (VCAM) facility is a 24/7 creative hub for students, faculty, staff, and the wider community.

VCAM houses the College’s Interdisciplinary Minor in Visual Studies, the Haverford Innovations Program, a Maker Arts Space, and the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities.

Make a Seat

VCAM’S Design + Make Summer Fellowship challenged participants to get hands-on and craft four very different chairs.

VCAM Fall Break Performance Intensive: GREAT AMERICAN ADVENTURE with Lightning Rod Special

October 18-21st, 2023

Hurford Center & VCAM Philadelphia Artist-in-Residence Open Call

Deadline to Apply: December 31, 2022

Strange Truth 2022/23

Strange Truth 2022/2023 explores the non-fiction imagination in films by Lisa Rovner, So Yun Um, Brett Story, Nia Dacosta, and Helena de Llanos.

All Events held at Haverford College, Lightbox Theater at University of the Arts, & Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Fall 2022 & Spring 2023

22 people, including the Doculab students and their filmmaking partners, gather on the steps of the VCAM building for a group portrait

Summer Centered: DocuLab 2022 Makes an Impact Through Film

In partnership with the Asian American Documentary Network, five students worked to spread the stories of Asian Americans through film as part of VCAM’s annual collaborative program.

The Hurford Center and VCAM invite proposals for VCAMbient, a weekly curated series in which ambient music–played live or via recordings by members of the Bi-Co community–will play at low volume Thursday afternoons this fall in VCAM.

Group of people pose in rows in front of VCAM

Doculab 2022: Haverford-A-Doc Impact Lab

The summer 2022 DocuLab is a ten-week partnership between Haverford and the Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc), a network of 1000+ film professionals that works to increase the visibility and support of Asian Americans in the documentary field. The Impact Lab will focus on an emerging field of filmmaking–impact producing–which harnesses the unique power of film to bolster social justice goals.

Strange Truth 2022

Strange Truth 2022 explores the non-fiction imagination in the films of Vivian Kleiman, CJ Hunt, Darcy McKinnon, and Marlon Riggs.

All events are free and open to the public and will be held at Bryn Mawr Film Institute or Haverford College’s VCAM building. Each will be followed by conversations with the artists.

design + making collaborative summer 2022

VCAM Design + Making Collaborative

Design + Make Toys // Summer 2022: Students will be presented with several toy design prompts and challenged to create prototypes. Learn digital fabrication techniques and hands-on skills. Along the way there will be collaborative activities, group projects, discussions, presentations, and much more. Applications Open: January 12. Deadline to Apply: March 4.

Reciprocal Community Connections

The Reciprocal Community Connections (RCC) Task Force of the Strategic Planning Steering Committee invites you to a series of focus group conversations taking place November 19 through December 3.