OVA
OVA
producing cuturally diverse exhibitions

The Organisation for Visual Arts is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status in the United Kingdom. It was set up in 1992 as an inIVA franchise by Sunil Gupta.


Chair
Monika Baker
Staff
Edward Ward, Project Manager
Sunil Gupta, Curator
Suraj Patel, Volunteer

Mission
OVA promotes a greater understanding of culturally diverse practises in the visual arts through the production of exhibitions, publications, education and research. OVA bridges the gap between the periphery and the mainstream, providing opportunities for new technologies and traditional artistic disciplines to engage with both public and professional audiences.

Aims
To provide opportunities for new commissions and exhibitions for culturally diverse contemporary visual artists nationally and internationally.

To research and mount exhibitions by culturally diverse artists that support the concept of a critical practice.

To establish international links with art organisations worldwide to create dialogue and collaboration.

To give priority to those artists who have been marginalized on the basis of gender, race, sexuality and disability.

To develop new audiences by improving the knowledge and understanding of culturally diverse practices of the arts.

Objectives
A programme of culturally diverse exhibitions at new and established venues.

A related programme of small-scale exhibitions at non-traditional venues.

Developing relationships with the formal and informal education sectors to further the knowledge of culturally diverse visual arts.

To develop educational initiatives using the exhibition programme as a vehicle.

The programme to be delivered both at the site of the exhibition but also as lectures, talks and workshops at other venues.

To increase access and new audiences through the mediums of print and new technology including:
- Web site
 - Annual book publication
 - DVD/CD Rom

To provide curators and students who are researching work by culturally diverse artists access to an archive.

To actively encourage and enable people from culturally diverse groups to make an investment in their future involvement with visual arts.

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