DVAtions is a brand new innovative programme of curated exhibitions, events and projects across Dorset from Spring 2025, brought to you by Dorset Visual Arts.
DVAtions will celebrate Dorset as a place of cultural excellence where high quality, exciting and ambitious fine and contemporary art and craft is created.
Launching Spring 2025, Dorset Visual Arts will present this new event to complement our existing and popular bi-ennial Dorset Art Weeks.
About Us
Dorset Visual Arts (DVA) is a not-for-profit organisation and registered charity (1113249), established in 2006. Supporting over 300 artists, designers and makers who live and, or work in Dorset, UK.
DVA is well known for its biennial, flagship event, Dorset Art Weeks, one of the oldest Open Studios Events in the country.
Our Mission Statement
To promote, maintain and advance the appreciation of all forms of visual arts within Dorset and to provide the opportunity for everyone to experience and enjoy the benefits of creativity and culture in the arts.
DVAtions will see DVA work with arts partners, cultural organisations and historic venues across the breadth of Dorset creating a series of curated interventions, exhibitions, projects and commissions.
This new approach will support DVA members to explore and develop their creative practice and to provide new cultural experiences for audiences.
DVAtions will provide Dorset artists and makers with a different range of opportunities to present work with a more diverse, dynamic, distinct focus, a creative complement to the mainly Open Studios format of Dorset Art Weeks.
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What will DVAtions look like?
DVAtions will celebrate the best of Dorset,
its culture, heritage and environment,
whilst providing a platform for nurturing
and presenting emerging talent.
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Culture Declares
Dorset Visual Arts have declared a Climate and Ecological Emergency with Culture Declares.
Declaration
The visual arts, and artists, are in a unique position to comment, reflect on, and shape the world around us. Creativity can play a vital role in connecting individuals and communities, informing and explaining, and setting radical discourse, where it finds itself at the junction of enquiry, debate and visual appreciation.
Dorset Visual Arts wishes to encourage its members to engage more critically around issues of sustainability and climate change not only in the subject of their finished work but also in the making and production of it. DVA wants to take action on climate change, through supporting the production and promotion of new work from individuals and commissioned work in its programme, such as through Art Weeks events, Education work and community engagement.
Art - Ecology - Community