Category: SCAN News
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Introducing SCAN Decades, our new event series
Marking our first ten years of activity by looking to the next ten years, DECADES is SCAN’s new programme of...
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Help your loved ones #UnwrapArt this festive season
Scotland’s visual artists are world-renowned, with artists and makers across the country taking inspiration from its rare natural beauty and...
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Looking Back on #ArtUnlocks
Our director Moira Jeffrey looks back on a summer of campaigning and reflects on the challenges now facing Scotland’s creative...
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SCAN Summit 2022: NO! NO! NO! Cultural Work in Violent Times
CCA Glasgow (Theatre), 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD Wednesday 16 November, 10.00–16.30 FREE for SCAN members / £10 for...
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Weemin’s Wark: How Art Helped to Transform Tradition in Shetland
For 200 years Lerwick’s annual Up Helly Aa fire festival allowed only male participants. Since 2020 Gaada, the artist-led organisation based in the...
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Art Unlocks Joy and Resilience: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
From young women singing in their kitchen to crowds dancing arm in arm in the street, Basel Abbas and Ruanne...
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SCAN members welcome MSPs
All summer, SCAN members around Scotland have been welcoming MSPs to their organisations including galleries, studios, outdoor spaces, and even...
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Creating a Community of Human and Animal Ravers in Arbroath
If you go down to the woods outside Hospitalfield House in early September, you’ll find a joyful group of ravers...
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SCAN Sparks Seed Fund recipients!
As part of our SCAN Sparks project to support underserved grassroots arts communities during the Covid-19 pandemic, we launched a seed...
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Alternative Futures: Cooking Sections and Sakiya
Want to know how salmon help trees grow? How we can build low-carbon tiling from waste shells? Why giving land...
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Waves of Inspiration: Art on the Union Canal
SCAN caught up with artists Emmie McLuskey, Hannan Jones, and Maeve Redmond to discuss their work on the Associate Artist...
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#ArtUnlocks: Why we all need to reconnect with art
Sam Ainsley is an artist and teacher until 2005 was Head of the MFA Programme at Glasgow School of Art....
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#ArtUnlocks experiences this Summer
This summer the public and MSPs across Scotland are being urged to go out, and reconnect with the country’s exciting...
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NEUK Collective on working with neurodivergent artists
On Tuesday 3rd of May, we held a SCAN Members Meet with Neuk Collective on working with neurodivergent artists. Neuk...
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SCAN Sparks Seed Fund
SCAN Sparks Seed Fund A seed fund for collaborative, self-initiated visual arts activity led by Black people and People of...
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Spaces need artists
Access to meanwhile spaces is now commonplace in the visual arts sector. Here, writer Chris Sharratt speaks to Shân Edwards...
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Climate Action Fund makes a difference
Three artists and curators will develop exciting new projects with a focus on sustainability, thanks to the Mandate Climate Action...
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Scanning the year 2021
We’re here to support contemporary art. We know that artists’ voices, art spaces, and artistic opportunities can help us find...
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#UnwrapArt and support artists and makers
Our #UnwrapArt campaign highlights the many opportunities for the public to buy directly from artists this festive season. Writer Chris...
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#ArtUnlocks Talent
Writer Chris Sharratt speaks to SCAN members and explores how access to visual art at an early age develops vital...
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#UnwrapArt to Support Artists and Makers
Are you looking for unique gifts for your friends and family? You can support Scotland’s creative community at the same...