VCR RESIDENCIES
The VCR Residency Program began in 2018 to diversify and activate our visual collections.
Research-creation by VCR residents includes a curated selection of films and images, video essays and guides to visual resources.
Meet our VCR Residents
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Desirée de Jesus
Dr. de Jesus is a video essayist and moving images curator. Her videographic work analyzes films centering girls, women and folks of color.
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Leisure
Leisure is a conceptual collaborative art practice between Meredith Carruthers (1975) and Susannah Wesley (1976), based in Montréal.
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Elya Myers
Elya's current research and interests orbit around anime, animation, blackness, and race and representation across media.
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Tanvi Rajvanshi
Tanvi studies representations of memory and trauma in intercultural and diasporic cinema
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Wanessa Cardoso de Sousa
Wanessa's research interests include oral history, material culture, vernacular architecture, art librarianship, and digital preservation and curation.