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

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.

Leisure
Leisure is a conceptual collaborative art practice between Meredith Carruthers (1975) and Susannah Wesley (1976), based in Montréal.

Elya Myers
Elya's current research and interests orbit around anime, animation, blackness, and race and representation across media.

Tanvi Rajvanshi
Tanvi studies representations of memory and trauma in intercultural and diasporic cinema

Wanessa Cardoso de Sousa
Wanessa's research interests include oral history, material culture, vernacular architecture, art librarianship, and digital preservation and curation.