How to Tour with NPN Support?
There is no pre-selected roster of NPN artists. NPN Partners select individual artists and artists companies based on their own curatorial visions and community needs, with no influence from the NPN National Office. After reviewing the NPN Directory, particularly the curatorial statements, we suggest interested artists initiate direct contact with NPN Partners that seem well matched with their work.
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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.