Projects

SCAN projects fulfil a crucial role within the contemporary art community: facilitating connection, cultivating ambitions, and advocating for the needs of artists and organisations. Our projects offer comprehensive and tailored support to the contemporary art sector in Scotland – from underserved regions to ethos-driven communities of interest. Together, they forward our mission to connect, champion, and cultivate the sector, while creating capacity for change.

  • Affiliations

    Affiliations is SCAN’s new learning and development programme of workshops, talks and events tailored for artist-run initiatives (ARIs) in Scotland....

  • Ley Lines

    Ley Lines is SCAN’s creative placemaking project for the Highlands. Led by SCAN Highland Development Lead Emma Gibson, it seeks...

  • SCAN Summit

    SCAN Summit is our annual flagship in-person event. Each Summit is themed around an urgent issue affecting both the arts...

  • Artists Make a Better World

    SCAN’s summer 2023 campaign to encourage policymakers to support contemporary art and share with the public the many ways that artists contribute to Scotland’s wellbeing.  

  • #ArtUnlocks

    The #ArtUnlocks campaign champions the valuable role visual art plays within communities across Scotland and calls for stronger recognition of this in decision-making.

  • SCAN Sparks

    Our SCAN Sparks programme explores ways in which the cultural community can support grassroots activism and equalities-focused working.

  • #UnwrapArt

    SCAN’s annual campaign inviting the public to support Scotland’s artists and makers while buying gifts and experiences that loved ones will treasure. 

  • E-cargo bikes for arts workers

    In January 2024, SCAN acquired a fleet of four e-cargo bikes thanks to funding from Cycling UK’s Scotland’s Cycle Share...

  • SCAN Decades

    A programme of free conversation events looking to the next ten years of life and work in the contemporary art community.

  • Taisbean/Curators North

    Contemporary Art helps open minds, drive new ideas and imagine the future in communities from the Isle of Skye to urban Inverness.

  • Curatorial Leadership in Collections (CLiC)

    Our Curatorial leadership in Collections project supports a network of contemporary art curators from collections across Scotland and shares learning with the wider museums sector.