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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Scanning the Year 2022
Artists Make a Better World We’re thrilled with this year’s Christmas card, created for us by artist Morwenna Kearsley. The...
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Elizabeth Price talks psychedelic carpets and library utopias in her new show at The Hunterian
Artist Elizabeth Price creates powerful works that examine artefacts and objects which are often considered insignificant. In attending to...
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POSTSCRIPT: SCAN Summit 2022: NO! NO! NO! Cultural Work in Violent Times
On Wednesday 16 November 2022, eighty SCAN members and culture workers from across Scotland gathered at CCA Glasgow for...
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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...