Spotlight on NPN Artists
A raft of performing artists recently received Guggenheim Fellowships to forward their artistic work, and several of them have strong NPN connections. Congratulations to Jane Comfort, John Collins, Cynthia Hopkins, Richard Maxwell, Holly Hughes, Miguel Gutierrez AND Morgan Thorson!! Read more at www.gf.org/fellows/current/
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.