YVAN Ltd is in partnership with The Art House, funded by Arts Council England and is a regional partner of the national Contemporary Visual Arts Network.  Our Board is drawn from the region’s community of visual artists and visual arts professionals and includes creative practitioners, independent professionals and members of visual arts organisations, all working voluntarily on behalf of the sector.  Click here to read about YVAN’s priorities >>

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We aspire to be the ‘voice of the visual arts’ in the region.

YVAN seeks to act in the interests of the region’s visual arts infrastructure and practitioners.

We seek to effect change in the sector through a broad programme of activities. In the past two years, these have included:

CPD & ARTIST SUPPORT

The Artists’ Journey conference at Sheffield Hallam University in partnership with Sheffield Institute of Arts, bloc projects and Making Ways.

Culture Community Creativity conference with University of Huddersfield in partnership with ROTOR.

Practice based PhD at Sheffield Hallam University: Critical arts practice and social change

Contemporary Artists in Rural Contexts seminar in Coxwold, North Yorkshire in partnership with Chrysalis Arts.

The Arts Development Fund: a programme of micro-grants for artists to develop their skills, open new markets and embark upon projects that they would not otherwise be able to consider.

The Cultural Entrepreneur Programme involved free public events to help creative and cultural entrepreneurs in their marketing, communications and market reach.

Making A Living From Art – a seminar offering arts practitioners practical advice to build markets for their work.

YVAN provided free transport for artists to get to the Art Party Conference and commissioned two videographers to document the day and interview delegates.

ADVOCACY

What We Talk About When We Talk About Work: a programme of public discussions bringing together curators and artists working across the north of the UK.

Nothing Will Stop Us – a conversation about the creative case in Yorkshire’s visual arts sector.

NOURISH programme of curated conversations.

YVAN hosted the CVAN National Conversation: The Value of Artists.

Commissioned to edit the last of the four ‘Untitled’ magazines being published in the run-up to the British Art Show.