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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.

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.

The Hurford Center and VCAM announce 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 during the course of one afternoon each week.

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 + 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!