Herts Visual Arts

Herts Visual Arts Forum (HVA) is an artists run community providing support, opportunity and networking to artists and makers across Hertfordshire. - Provide ways for artists of all disciplines, amateur or professional, to meet and exchange ideas and information. - Encourage professionalism and high standards in its members and their dealings with artists' employers, facilitators, galleries and supporters. - Raise awareness of and promote accessibility to the visual arts in Hertfordshire. - Lobby for wider opportunities for artists and better facilities for the visual arts. - Represent the County's artists to Local, County, Regional and National bodies.HVA organises the following: - Quarterly meetings with guest artists and speakers, open to all members and guests. - Regular newsletters with information, features and members' news. - Subsidiary groups with their own programmes open to all members. - An annual Open Studios event for artists to open their studios to the public. - A Website to provide information and to publicise the Forum, its members, the Open Studios event and other activities.