SPUR is hosting a Show + Tell alongside the Martin Parr The Rhubarb Triangle & Other Stories exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield, local students and emerging artists are invited to take part.
Featuring contributions from guest speakers and members of the East Midlands’s network,
this event will explore the notion of making things happen; how and why things happen,
who makes things happen, how artists (can) make things happen and will pose the question "What is happening and what needs to happen in the East Midlands?".
Exploring how individual artists specialising in place-making contribute to transforming difficult areas into places in which people choose to live, work, play and invest.
The Value of Artists: A National Conversation
Organised by the Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN )
This event is for artists interested in undertaking an artists’ residency and particularly for those who feel they maybe unable to pursue a residency (for whatever reason). Artists who have taken part in residencies are also encouraged to come along and share their experiences.
The event will welcome arts organisations, museums, and freelance artists, curators and producers from across the Arts Council Areas to listen, share, question and challenge their approaches to the Creative Case though case studies, group conversations and 1:1 exchanges.
A symposium to accompany Listening, the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition jointly hosted by Art Exchange and Firstsite. Friday 29 January 2016, 1-5.30pm, at the Hexagon, University of Essex
Six stimulating and provocative conversations between art world professionals, including artists, curators, consultants, gallery directors, academics and researchers will explore core problems in the structure of the art world, and seek to address its contemporary system failure. As well as diagnosing the problems, these conversations aim to suggest alternative ways that the art world might function, in order to improve the status and earning power of visual artists.
Space to Think is an exciting opportunity to explore questions raised by artworks in BALTIC's exhibitions. Led by Grace Robinson and Liz Watkins Community Philosophers at Thinking Space, this series of workshops encourages group discussion and debate in an informal setting. Upcoming Space to Think events on Sunday 16 August 2015 & Sunday 4 October 2015.
The Contemporary Visual Arts Network’s ultimate goal is to nurture contemporary visual artists and organisations in order to produce internationally regarded, critically engaged work that is valued by our society.
