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Clear filterOde to the Midlands (OttM) is an ambitious 18-month, cross-regional programme delivered by Contemporary Visual Arts Network East Midlands (CVAN EM) and Contemporary Visual Arts Network West Midlands (CVAN WM). The programme invests in artists, organisations, and audiences across the Midlands, strengthening regional connections and expanding access to digital visual arts.
Rooted in equity, collaboration, and digital innovation, OttM supports Global Majority, Disabled, d/Deaf, and Neurodivergent mid-career artists to create new digital artworks that explore and celebrate the Midlands’ rich cultural and geographical identity.
Through partnerships with commissioning organisations across the East and West Midlands, OttM builds lasting relationships, supports sustainable artist development, and strengthens the region’s capacity for inclusive digital commissioning. Artworks will be presented online, in galleries, and in public spaces, widening access for diverse and time-poor audiences.
Ode to the Midlands is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
I’ve been working with a lightweight 30 micron material. It isn’t glamorous, but it does something very interesting. Light passes through it. It diffuses colour. It disappears when the light changes. It folds. It catches air. It’s so thin, it can become almost nothing, and then suddenly become a large glowing form.
SCORE is an evolving practice for noticing how listening is organised across cultural organisations and exploring how it might be composed differently. It can be used within governance, staff and organisational life, curatorial and artistic relationships, and public programmes.
The photographic studio is often understood as a neutral space, stripped of the cultural and social elements that shape identity. In this workshop, Marley Starskey Butler and Euripides Altintzoglou propose alternative approaches to portraiture, foregrounding conversation and collaboration as creative tools.
This free, hands-on workshop introduces artists to the creative potential of Augmented Reality (AR).
On 23 July we will bring colleagues from Music, Computer Science and the VIP Studio together for a single intensive day of making: treating AI as a collaborator to compose, devise and perform live music, and to build a visual environment that listens to that music and answers it as it unfolds.
A Hands-On Robotics Workshop for Makers. What if your artwork could breathe, blink, or hesitate?
CVAN EM and CVAN WM are proud to announce the artist and organisation partnerships for Ode to the Midlands (OttM), a major new cross-regional programme investing in artists, organisations, and audiences across the Midlands through digital contemporary art.
Unlock the secrets to a thriving creative career. This event is in partnership with CVAN EM, CVAN WM & Ode to the Midlands.
Ode to the Midlands is commissioning six mid-career artists to develop and deliver new digital artworks between April 2026 – March 2027.
Open to visual arts organisations located in or programming across the East Midlands & West Midlands to foster cross-regional connectivity and sustained artistic development.
Ode to the Midlands (OttM) is an ambitious, cross-regional programme delivered over 18 months by Contemporary Visual Arts Network East Midlands (CVAN EM) and Contemporary Visual Arts Network West Midlands (CVAN WM) to enrich cultural life in the Midlands by investing in local talent and publics.
