Notes on CCANW

Notes on CCANW

Clive Adams on Arnolfini, Mostyn and CCANW availablr at http://www.artcornwall.org/interviews/Clive_Adams_CCANW.htm  accessed on 20/9/2012 at8.25pm

affiliation

CCANW' s decision to set up a Project Space in Haldon Forest Park was encouraged by the potential of a partnership with the Forestry Commission

interest

CCANW are interested in promoting the environmental benefits of using local, sustainably grown timber in architecture and design

contempory art world

CCANW have also organised many other exhibitions and activities, across all the art fields.

viewer

it attracts around a quarter of a million visitors a year, so the potential for CCANW to engage new audiences with the arts and, at the same time, to interest them in enviromental issues is considerable.

 Centre For Contemporary Art And The Natural World. Available at: http://www.ccanw.co.uk/ Accessed on 20/9/2012 at 2.25pm 

Directors:  

 Tristram Besterman, chair, Phil Collins, Charlotte Rathbone, Jem Southam, Peter Young, Rick Bond, Dave Pritchard, Emma Rothwell, Henrietta Vercoe, William Lana 

Between them they have relevent art, curatorial, teaching and marketing experience

The Centre has three chief aims:

• To develop new understandings through the work of contemporary artists which explores the social, environmental and scientific issues involved in our changing relationship to nature.
• To create new art and art practice by supporting artists to respond to the wider historical and cultural constructions of 'nature'.
• To increase access to the contemporary arts by breaking down barriers to public engagement.

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Artists, students, young people, families, the rural community, disabled people, those from different cultural backgrounds and socially deprived areas

For the local community, tourists, established and emerging artists, for both experts and the broader public, both locally, nationally and globally. It also attracts new audiences for the arts that are more informed, artistically aware.

 Funding

The Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World is a registered limited company no.4141506 and a registered charity no.1092019

CCANW is pleased to acknowledge support for its 2012-13 programme from Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, The Norman Family Charitable Trust, Devon County Council, Teignbridge District Council and The Forestry Commission