Nora Chipaumire’s “gukurahundi”
"The Museum of Contemporary Arts’ Community Fund Project achieved breakthroughs that could be only derived from its unique framework," wrote Yolanda Cesta Cursach about MCA’s collaboration with Nora Chipaumire. Read all about it in another installment of an NPN Project Profile.
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.