What NPN has meant to Jane Comfort & Company…
…and what it has meant to me. by Jane Comfort
When we did our first NPN residency, in 1989 at Dancer’s Collective in Atlanta, I was thrilled to finally be a part of a performing network that I had known about for years. I hoped that more tours would follow, but I had no idea how many great NPN experiences were coming our way. Read More >
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.