Visual Arts Forum

Vis Arts Forum AGM 2009

With the emergence of a series of, now established, vibrant local festivals in Stratford,  Visual Arts Forum are well placed to develop the promotion of our members work around these events.  Involvement with these events will lead up to the 2012 Olympic programme of activities right across Britain.

The publicity generated for these events provides umbrella publicity that our organisation can feed into, costing us less to generate our own limited promotional material.

To support our involvement in these events we have applied for finding from the Town Trust.  The bid will support the organisations objective of attracting more local people to engage with the visual Arts by improving our outward looking profile and publicity, increasing the range of work we can display in a wider range of venues and offering workshop sessions to engage local people in the visual arts.

With this in mind and the need to extend the audiences for the work of our members the committee feel it important to develop a unique ethos for our organisation, establishing a profile that demonstrates the differences of Visual Arts Forum from that of other local organisations. These include:

Opening up Visual Arts Forum to extend the scope of the organisation to include a richer spectrum of artistic talent including: word, visual, sound and moving image.  This will generate a more inclusive ethos and increase the numbers of artists who work across mixed media to join us. Visual Arts will remain the central focus of our organisation and all the opportunities we develop but provide us with an opportunity to develop more vibrant and varied events.

Create a supportive link of association with Escape: Community Art in Action. This will enrich the profile of Visual Arts Forum, creating a unique role for the  organisation and a clear context within the local community, demonstrating integrity for the organization.

Visual Arts Forum will gain access to a wider audience, providing shared access to members of the community committed to the visual arts through Escape and Friends of Escape. This will create a unique opportunity to strengthen the appeal of Visual Arts to the wider public establishing the artists place within the community.

Visual Arts Forum would support the charity by donating donate 15% of sales.    

Exhibition Opportunities 2010

Rolling Programme of Exhibitions at the Civic Hall	Throughout the year	Six week changeover
Literary Festival	April 25  - May 3	Open Exhibit throughout the Civic Hall
River Festival	June 7 – 13th	Coxes Yard
Warwickshire Arts Week	July 3rd – 18th	Open Studios
Winter Festival		Art Fair