Supporting Visual Music

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

Your donations and support enable the continuing operation of our programs and activities in Visual Music, and is 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 continued Cataloging and Conservation of The William Moritz Archive and Library, The Jordan Belson Project, Film Preservation, Transfer to HD of numerous films, and our continuing DVD series (including upcoming DVDs for Belson, Fischinger, Baily, Engel and others).

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):

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

CVM also seeks other donations:
3/4 inch UMatic decks, Video projector, DVCam deck or camera, PAL VHS player, and various computer hardware.

CVM has intern positions for 2010 for exhibitions and archival work, 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
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
Ingo Petzke
Aaron Ross
Fred Seibert (for The Oskar Fischinger Project)

Friends and Other Donors

Sheila Baily
Kevin and Jackie Baily
Jacob Barningham
Mark Caballero
John Canemaker
Chris Casady
Fred Collopy
Nicholas Cope
Greta Dockum
Jim Ellis
Stephen Gordon
Colin Herd
Nancy Herman
Eric Homan
Rich Housh
Joseph Janovsky
Lisa Johnson
Johns Creek Software, Inc.
Cindy Keefer
Caldwell Lever
Maura McDonnell
Dennis Miller
Mondi
Scott Moschella
Sarah Oppenheimer
ChihCheng Peng
Dennis Reed
Marc Rubenstein
Timothy Saccenti
Gil Schnitzler
Michael Scroggins
Scott Snibbe
Sheila Sofian
Vibeke Sorensen
Mark Stanford
Neville Stern and Carmel Gray
Volker Straebel
Theo Wulff

and many individual donors supporting The Jules Engel Preservation Project

Funders
(most are project-specific)

Judith McBean Foundation
California Institute of the Arts, Dept. of Film
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
National Film Preservation Foundation
NASA Art Program
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
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
Bettina Brendel
John Buchanan
Bundesarchiv, Berlin
Tyler Cann/Len Lye Foundation
Arthur & Corinne Cantrill
Chris Casady
Steven Churchill
Sean Cooper
Devon Damonte
Susan Delson
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
Jean-Paul Goergen
Goethe Institut Los Angeles
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
George Stadnik
Cecile Starr
Sin's Opticals
Visual Communications
Mark Webber
Howard Wexler
Gregory Zinman

About CVM

Advisory Council

Yann Beauvais (Paris)
Stephen Beck (Berkeley, CA)
Giannalberto Bendazzi (Milan)
Thomas Levin (Princeton, N.J.)
Baerbel Neubauer (Munich)
Jack Ox (Albuquerque, NM)
Joost Rekveld (Amsterdam)
Michael Scroggins (Valencia, CA)

Director

Cindy Keefer

Current Board of Directors

David James, Barbara Fischinger, Edward Lantz, Rol Murrow, Susan Bolles

Previous Board Members

John Canemaker, David Lebrun, Christine Panushka, John Whitney, Jr.

Previous Advisory Council / Founders

Jules Engel, William Moritz

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