The Fair + Equitable programme is driving CVAN’s strategy for a more inclusive visual arts sector.
Fair + Equitable (F+E) is a five year programme and commitment to instituting equity within the visual arts sector in England.
The aim of the Fair + Equitable programme is to make a significant contribution, over a five year period, to developing a visual arts sector and ecology that facilitates the leadership opportunities of artists and arts workers from underrepresented and marginalised communities, as well as supporting them to thrive.
The programme is grounded in the lived experience of artists and arts workers who are the most marginalised, specifically individuals who identify as part of Global Ethnic Majorities, disabled and neurodivergent, LGBTQI+, and working-class communities.
Our approach recognises that questions of equity in the visual arts sector are being more publicly explored. The Fair + Equitable programme sits alongside work that is already being undertaken by organisations such as Inc Arts, the Runnymede/Freelands Foundation and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Creative Diversity (see its Creative Majority report), to ground future equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) interventions in the visual arts in evidence.
The scope of work that this programme will address includes the following four areas:
- Inequalities and barriers that people from global ethnic majorities, D/deaf, disabled, neurodivergent, migrant and working-class communities experience in working in contemporary visual arts.
- Widening participation of marginalised communities, especially young people – and access routes into the visual arts.
- Marketing, communications and access development to overhaul and enhance the diversity of new audiences.
- Environmental impact and innovative propositions for organisations and independents to decarbonise.
