FY09 Annual Meeting in Seattle
We are Seattle bound for the next NPN Annual Meeting. Mark your calendars for December 11-15, 2008 and make your plans to be there. The convenings staff, Mimi and her new assistant Pam, will be following up with more information in the coming months – so watch for it.
Patterned after NPN's model performing arts program, the Visual Artists Network was launched in 2007 as a pilot, and in 2009 the program was formally established through the induction of the VAN Partners, fifteen leading contemporary arts organizations from across the United States.
The boundaries between the performing and visual arts are more than blurred: "Performance art" on the stage and "installations" in a gallery. Using the residency model of a touring performing artist, VAN is a way for the visual artist to engage in community.