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.

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.

Lexie Iglesia ‘21 Behind the Makeup

The recent alum curated “What I’ve Become,” a clown-themed exhibition in VCAM that extends from their work as a 2021 Summer Doculab fellow.

Hear Something New with VCAM’s Artists in Residence

Sound Museum Collective joined the Haverford community in October to assist students in exploring audio engineering.

The summer Doculab fellows with friends: (From left) Sofia Mondragon BMC ’22, Lexie Iglesia ’21, Liz Burke BMC ’23, guest artist Pamela Z, Jixin Jia ’21, Bilge Nur Yilmaz ’21, Alice Hu ’21, and Bilikisu Hanidu '23.

Summer Centered: Fords Bring Showtime to Haverford

Bilge Nur Yilmaz ‘21, Liz Burke BMC ‘23, Sofia Mondragon BMC ‘22, Alexandra Iglesia ‘21, and Alice Hu '21 spent the summer documenting the work of performance artists from across the country as part of the Summer Doculab Program.

Silvan Sooksatan ’21, Julia Coletti '21, Neha Thumu '24, and Isabel Ray '23 stand together in the Maker Arts Space.

Design + Make Summer Fellowship is Some Work and All Play

Design + Make Summer Fellows in the VCAM’s Maker Arts Space spent eight weeks designing and prototyping objects of play for Turning Points for Children and Playful Learning Landscapes.

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July 3: Bicentennial City on WHYY

The Summer DocuLab film Bicentennial City will air on WHYY on Saturday, July 3 at 9 PM EST, and will be available to stream for 30 days starting Friday, July 2. Learn more!

Call for Applications: VCAM Faculty Fellows 2021-22 or 2021-23

The college invites applications from tenure-line and continuing faculty for a 1-2 year position as a VCAM Faculty Fellow. Deadline May 15, 2021.

Krissy on Tour at Haverford College

Join Krissy Talking Pictures (KTP) on Wednesday, April 21 at 7 p.m. for a screening of videos by queer artists in Philadelphia, along with an interactive conversation about KTP's approach to arts organizing, their multimedia events, and how they are working to create community around art making.