aims and objectives

by Alex — last modified 2008-03-31 13:01
VANSA’s aims and objectives as stated in its constitution are:
  1. to provide a national forum and organisational base for visual arts practitioners, creative artists working within the visual arts field, curators, gallerists, museums, technical, administrators, educators, art historians and critics, organisations, institutions and service providers in the visual arts industry (eg art material suppliers, framers, foundrys etc) to debate, set an agenda, and act in their respective and collective interests within the visual arts.
  2. to provide the tools or access to the tools - information, technology, skills and expertise, etc - required by the visual and creative arts sector to best create, produce, market and distribute their work, locally, nationally and internationally.
  3. to provide sympathetic, constructively critical forums and advisory mechanisms to support visual and creative arts practitioners and organisations/formations in their creative processes, organisational practices and in the general challenges they face within the contemporary cultural milieu.
  4. to serve as a united front to lobby government - at national, provincial, metropolitan and local levels; the private sector, parastatals, funding agencies such as the NAC and provincial arts councils, the lottery, and other relevant agencies, in the best interests of the visual arts sector as the need arises.
  5. to promote transparency, accountability and sound financial and organisational management within the arts and culture sector, particularly among conduits and recipients of public, international and private sector funds; to investigate, or cause to be investigated allegations of corruption, misappropriation or mismanagement of funds and resources, and to take appropriate action where necessary.
  6. to promote and defend the interests of visual arts practitioners.
  7. to promote co-operation and unity within the arts sector and particularly in the visual arts sector in the country.
  8. to acknowledge and publicise successes and achievements or significant contributions to and in the visual arts sector.
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