CVAN EM celebrates and supports visual arts and culture in the region, fostering an inclusive long-term future for the sector, emphasising equity and access for all arts workers.
Updates, features, and insights from the visual arts community.
This year’s CVAN EM AGM takes place at a pivotal moment for the visual arts, both regionally and nationally. The event will serve as both a moment of reflection and a platform for dialogue, raising CVAN EM’s profile and helping ensure our work remains inclusive, relevant, and creative-centred.
How can organisations use storytelling, qualitative impact, and advocacy to articulate value when funders prioritise measurement.
This session focuses on professional growth, opportunity awareness, and commercial development.
Discover exhibitions, workshops, talks, performances events and creative activity across the region.
Souvenirs Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive is an exhibition by LEVEL Spotlight Award 2026 artist Helen Grundy. Presented in LEVEL Centre s Gallery Corridor, this provocative and humorous exhibition showcases a series of surreal digital and paper collages - each one a souvenir from the artist's life.
Your adventure starts here! ‘Happy Trails: Welcome to Lalaland’ invites you into artist Carla Dee’s vibrant, joy-filled universe. Doodle-tastic and inspired by local life, this colourful, interactive exhibition sparks smiles, creativity and loads of fun. Bring the walls of the exhibition to life, revealing colourful characters along the way. Which local landmarks can you recognise? Escape into a world where anything is possible! Happy Trails: Welcome to Lalaland is suitable for all including day centres, school/community groups and families.
How can organisations use storytelling, qualitative impact, and advocacy to articulate value when funders prioritise measurement. In a funding landscape increasingly shaped by performance indicators and numerical measures of impact, how can visual arts organisations articulate what matters, beyond tick-box metrics. In this session, led by Eleonora (Ele) Belfiore, we will explore how narrative, qualitative impact, advocacy, and deeper conceptions of cultural value can complement (and challenge) dominant measurement frameworks.
Funding opportunties, residencies, creative roles, commissions, open calls, and professional or creative development.
As the Building Manager, you will be the main contact for the safe and efficient running of the building. You will coordinate repairs, maintenance and compliance, work closely with the Co-Directors on the Capital Project. You will also oversee logistics for events, exhibitions, and space hire. Recruitment pack with full details of the position and how to apply via BACKLIT website/ opportunities
DASH and Wysing Arts Centre seek to jointly appoint a disabled Associate Curator as part of DASH's Future Curators Programme. This position is part of DASH s Future Curators Programme and is for a Disabled, Deaf or Neurodivergent curator who works primarily from home or for whom home-based working is essential. This role is intentionally structured to be home-based, flexible, and responsive centring the curator s access needs, pace and working style. Access support will be provided as required (e.g. access riders, digital assistance, mentoring, and flexible scheduling). The curator will co-develop and curate shared ways of working in digital/ online spaces for DASH and Wysing Arts Centre, shaping it as a collaborative, accessible environment for artistic experimentation, storytelling, and international exchange.
LU Arts at Loughborough University is seeking an enthusiastic, friendly and committed Painting & Drawing Tutor to lead its highly popular adult evening classes. These run in three 8-week blocks during the University spring term, summer holidays and autumn term. The classes take place every Tuesday and Thursday evening from 6.30–9.00pm on the Loughborough University campus. It is the same course content on both evenings, with attendees choosing which day they sign up to attend. Classes are open to students, staff and members of the public and attract a wide range of abilities, from complete beginners to more experienced artists. Groups typically include a mix of returning and new learners, so the ability to teach mixed-ability groups and adapt sessions responsively is essential.
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