Speaking at the 3rd National Summit of the Turning Point Network on 10 May, Chair Godfrey Worsdale announced that the national network will now go by the name of the Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN) to reflect more accurately the constituency of its regional groups and members. A change to the organisation’s mission, vision and values was also announced.
CVAN says it will strengthen and develop the contemporary visual arts sector in England through collegiate working defined locally and nationally, using the network as a platform to do so. The network comprises of eleven regional groups based across the nine English regions: North East, Yorkshire/Humberside, North West, East Midlands, West Midlands, South East, East, South West and London.
Through a press release on its new site www.cvan.org.uk the network has set out its mission and the context for its work going forward:
“CVAN engages with around 2,000 individuals and several hundred organisations, large and small, commercial and public, international and local. It represents and supports a diverse and vibrant ecology embracing a broad range of artistic and curatorial practice. The individual groups drive programmes of work that not only benefit their regional constituents, but also the sector as a whole through shared learning. Collectively CVAN are stronger than the sum of our parts which makes the sector more resilient, sustainable and effective.”
A key goal is to “nurture contemporary visual artists and organisations in order to produce internationally regarded, critically engaged work that is valued by our society.”
Read the full press release announcement here
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