Supporting Visual Music / About Us

Your donations support our programs and activities to preserve and promote Visual Music.

Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law, CVM is a 501(c)3 non-profit public charity. Current projects for which we're fundraising: The Oskar Fischinger Project (conservation and preservation of films, papers, animation drawings), The Jordan Belson Project (preservation and digitization), the continued Cataloging and Conservation of The William Moritz Archive and Library, other Film Preservation, Transfer to HD of numerous films, our continuing DVD series, and general operations, including moving to larger offices in 2012.

Mailing address: Center for Visual Music, 453 S. Spring Street, Suite 834, Los Angeles, CA 90013. To donate via credit card, please call us at 213-683-1514 or donate online here (secure server through paypal; you do not need a paypal account), via Paypal to cvmarchive (at) gmail.com

Images above courtesy Fischinger Trust, Robert Seidel, Scott Draves and Electric Sheep, Jordan Belson

You can also Support CVM by becoming a Member. Membership levels and premiums include vintage Fischinger, James Whitney, Bill Moritz and other items - see the Membership page to join online.

You can Support CVM by giving a gift from our Amazon wish list, of needed office supplies or equipment

CVM also seeks other donations:
Video projectors, HD camera, DVCam deck or camera, Amazon.com gift certificates, and various computer hardware and software.

CVM has intern positions for 2012 for exhibitions and archival assistants, at our downtown LA office in Gallery Row.

CVM thanks our Contributors and Supporters

Founders' Circle ($1,000 and up)

Richard Baily/Image Savant
Stephen Beck
Susan Bolles
Timothy Finn
Barbara Fischinger
Lawrence Janss
Ed and Laura Lantz
Eva Mason
Michael Norman Nock
NOMI Group (in Memory of John Moynihan)

Patrons, Benefactors ($200 to $1,000)

Bettina Brendel
Steve Cheatham/The Electric Collage Light Show
Greta Dockum (for the Charles Dockum Project)
Scott and Isabel Draves (for the Jordan Belson Project)
Angelica Fischinger
Michael Friend
Getty Research Institute
Stephen Hillenburg (for The Jules Engel Preservation Project)
Jennifer Lane and David Hollander
David Lebrun
Andrew Morrison
Rol Murrow
Margaret Parsons
Suzanne Perkins and Bertram Gordon (for the Jordan Belson Project)
Ingo Petzke
Steve Roden
Aaron Ross
Fred Seibert (for The Oskar Fischinger Project)
Heike Sperling

Friends and Other Donors

Sheila Baily
Kevin and Jackie Baily
Jacob Barningham
Mark Caballero (for The Oskar Fischinger Project)
John Canemaker
Chris Casady
Fred Collopy
Nicholas Cope
Robert Crain
Jim Ellis
Paul & Glenda Fillinger (for the Jordan Belson Project)
Stephen Fisher (for the Jordan Belson Project)
Ilene Susan Fort
Peter Frank
Stephen Gordon
Jonathan Hall
Joshua Harrell (for The Oskar Fischinger Project)
Colin Herd
Nancy Herman
Eric Homan
Rich Housh
Karen Huff
Joseph Janovsky
Lisa Johnson
Johns Creek Software, Inc.
Cindy Keefer
Caldwell Lever
Stan Levine
Maura McDonnell
Alice & Leonard Maltin
Media City, Ontario (for The Oskar Fischinger Project)
Dennis Miller
Marcos Ortega Miranda (for the Jordan Belson Project)
Mondi
Scott Moschella
Sarah Oppenheimer
ChihCheng Peng
Dennis Reed
Michael Robinson (for the Jordan Belson Project)
Eric Rockey
Bernard Rousseau
Marc Rubenstein
Timothy Saccenti
Gil Schnitzler
Michael Scroggins
Robert Seidel
Liza Simone
Scott Snibbe
Sheila Sofian
Vibeke Sorensen
Barry Spinello
Mark Stanford
Neville Stern and Carmel Gray
Volker Straebel
John Teton (for the Jordan Belson Project)
H. van der Kraan (for The Oskar Fischinger Project)
Theo Wulff

and many individual donors supporting The Jules Engel Preservation Project

Funders
(Past and Present; most are project-specific)

National Film Preservation Foundation
California Institute of the Arts, Dept. of Film (for 2003 Jules Engel Retrospective at REDCAT)
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (for Sons et Lumieres exhibition, 2004-05)
Lefkowitz Family Foundation
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (for Visual Music exhibition, 2005)
NASA Art Program (for Epilogue, 2005)
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (for Visual Music exhibition, 2005)
Dale and Edna Walsh Foundation

In-Kind Donors

Chace Productions, Burbank, CA
Film Technology, Inc., Hollywood, CA
Hollywood Vaults, Hollywood, CA
Xarene Eskandar

    Donors of research materials, art, books and equipment

Anthology Film Archives
Richard Baily
The Family of Richard Baily
Jordan Belson
Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin
Jacqueline Bolles
The Bettina Brendel Trust
Bettina Brendel
John Buchanan
Bundesarchiv, Berlin
Tyler Cann/Len Lye Foundation
Arthur & Corinne Cantrill
Chris Casady
Steven Churchill
Stuart Comer
Sean Cooper
Devon Damonte
Susan Delson
Sky David
Grant Davis
Deutsches Filmmuseum
Jim Ellis
Scott Elofson
Jules Engel
Filmmakers' Alliance
Barbara Fischinger
Fischinger Trust and Archive
Thorsten Fleisch
Michael Friend
Maureen Furniss
Bulat Galeyev
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Jeanpaul Goergen
Goethe Institut Los Angeles
Robert Haller
Nancy Herman
Susan Herzig and Paul Hertzmann
Roger Horrocks
David James
Dr. Joerg Jewanski
Len Lye Foundation, New Zealand
Andrew Lyons
David Magness
Tony Martin
Peter Mays
Jas. Morgan
Dr. William Moritz
Sandra Naumann
Nederlands Filmmuseum
Baerbel Neubauer
Jack Ox
Fred Paroutaud
Ron Pelligrino
Sylvia Pengilly
Dr. Ingo Petzke
Angeline Pike
Joost Rekveld
Marc Rubenstein
Gary Schwartz
Michael Scroggins
Young-min Son
Vibeke Sorensen
Barry Spinello
George Stadnik
Cecile Starr
Dr. James Tobias
Sin's Opticals
Visual Communications
Mark Webber
Steve Woloshen
David Wexler
Howard Wexler
Gregory Zinman

About CVM

Advisory Council

Yann Beauvais (Paris)
Stephen Beck (Berkeley, CA)
Giannalberto Bendazzi (Milan)
Xarene Eskander (Los Angeles)
Thomas Levin (Princeton, N.J.)
Baerbel Neubauer (Munich)
Jack Ox (Albuquerque, NM)
Scott Snibbe (San Francisco)
Gene Youngblood (Santa Fe)

Director

Cindy Keefer

Board of Directors (2011)

Barbara Fischinger, Joost Rekveld, Dr. James Tobias, David James

Previous Board Members (2003-11)

John Canemaker, Edward Lantz, David Lebrun, Rol Murrow, Christine Panushka, John Whitney, Jr., Susan Bolles

Previous Advisory Council / Co-Founders

Jules Engel, William Moritz

Previous Interns

Young-min Son, Koh, Elliot Kaufman, Tony Rzeteljski

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