The UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Artist-in-Residence Program will host an emerging artist for two weeks on-site at the Archive’s locations in Santa Clarita at the Packard Humanities Institute and in Westwood on the UCLA campus during the late spring of 2025 to activate the Archive’s collection in their artistic practice. The 2025 artist-in-residence will work exclusively with one or a combination of three specific collections: the Hearst Metrotone News Collection, In the Life LGBTQ+ Collection and KTLA Newsfilm Collection. The program will provide the artist with the time and support necessary to access and work with these unique collections, creating a project that will reach new audiences and make connections with Los Angeles’ cultural community.

The residency will be a shared process for the Archive and the artist and will include the following core activities:

• The residency will commence in advance of the two-week, full-time on-site visits in the form of planning meetings to perform research, identify potential titles for access, refine project scope and proposal as needed, and collaborate with Archive staff to create an on-site visit itinerary.
• Research and identify materials for access from the Archive’s Hearst Metrotone News, In the Life and KTLA Newsfilm collections.
• As accessible analog works are identified in the collections, the Archive will provide resources to digitize these analog holdings to enable the artist to use high-resolution files in their work.
• An introduction to archival training to understand the process of conservation and digitization that will take place on-site at the Archive’s facility in Santa Clarita at the Packard Humanities Institute.
• The opportunity to meet with members of the Los Angeles community, the UCLA community and/or the archival community that could help advance their project, including filmmakers, archivists and faculty. This work will take place either on Zoom or in person during the two-week, full-time visits.
• Between July and November, 2025, the artist will work independently in consultation with Archive staff.
• By the end of 2025, the artist will discuss their residency at a public presentation, panel discussion or event in the Archive’s Virtual Screening Room.