Mark your calendars in 2010
The dates and locations of the 2010 Mid-Year Meetings (formerly known as regional meetings) for NPN and VAN Partners have been set.
Midwest: March 27 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago
West: April 14 at MACLA in San Jose
South: May 15 at Ashé Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans
VAN: May 20 at Asian-Arts Initiative in Philadelphia
Northeast: May 21 at Asian-Arts Initiative in Philadelphia
More information will be posted when it becomes available.
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.