Manchester Contemporary opens in Manchester this month, and for the fourth year running one of our north west network members, International 3, are taking on the role of curatorial coordinators. Paulette and Laurence talk through their involvement and their approach to inviting emerging galleries to this year’s Fair.
Read MoreOctober will see the launch a second series of artists films from the North East CVAN, promoting artists living and working in the North East who are gaining a national and international profile.
Read MoreA summary of activity at the national Visual Arts Working Together event with details of the next steps.
Read MoreThe roll out of the North East Creative Timebank is now underway following its pilot phase in Teesside.
Read MoreCVAN is working with The Audience Agency to spearhead a consistent approach to gathering data, with the aim of improving the sector's understanding of its audiences.
Read MoreThe Institute for Public Policy Research's new report into ways of building an industrial strategy for creative industries is out now.
Read MoreJoella Wheatley, Platform Award winner 2012, has been included in a mixed painting show currently on display at De La Warr Pavilion.
Read MoreGrace Davies of Visual Arts South West talks about the findings of research undertaken between August 2012 and March 2014, to explore and evaluate quality of experience in contemporary visual arts exhibitions.
Read MoreNew Art West Midlands 2014 is the second annual exhibition showcasing the creative talent and new work of emerging artists in the West Midlands region.
Read MoreAs a member of Culture Action Europe, CVAN attended CAE’s Annual Public Conference and General Assembly, aptly titled: It’s Not a Crisis, it’s a transition!
Read MoreIn 2014 Castlefield Gallery in Manchester celebrates thirty years of developing artists’ practice and engaging audiences with new art.
Read MoreAt the conference in Liverpool in November CVAN presented a session, in partnership with VAGA, Arts & Heritage and Liverpool Biennial, entitled: Artists and the Elastic Museum.
Read MoreCVAN is partnering with Audience Agency on their Audience Finder programme, an ambitious big data project for the arts that seeks to bring about real insight and improve practice in public engagement.
Read MoreDiscover more about the Cultural Campaigning Network, a federation of 25 cross artform and cultural campaigning bodies.
Read MoreNorth East CVAN has recently shortlisted and selected ten artists to be profiled in their second round of Artist Films.
Read MoreIn a follow up to our last post, which introduced Annabel Jackson's national evaluation of our network's activity in recent years. Today we are happy to introduce a more detailed evaluation of the West Midlands hub's work.
Read MoreThe National Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN) welcomes the recent findings of their independent national evaluation undertaken by Annabel Jackson Associates.
Read MoreOn 05 July 2013 Google played host to the subsidised visual arts sector as part of a knowledge sharing event organised by CVAN.
Read MoreThis is the first of a number of pilot projects that North East Contemporary Visual Arts Network is a partner in to explore how artists’ academic research within Universities is disseminated and explored within the visual arts sector for mutual benefit and by doing so, seed new connections and test new partnerships.
Read MoreThe 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.
