Black Country Visual Arts have been awarded emergency funding by Arts Council England. BCVA Directors, Anand Chhabra & Jagdish Patel, welcome the award. It will mean the during this period, we can continue to help to profile the stories of under-represented BAME communities through the Digital Diaspora project.
The Digital Diaspora: Midlands Covid 19 project seeks to document how the pandemic has disproportionately affected the BAME community across the Midlands.The funding will allow us to work with other BAME artists through our newly established ReFramed Network.
The ReFramed Network is a collaboration with artist Andrew Jackson and curator Sebah Chaudhry and will help profile work from new emerging BAME artists from across the region. The network will, over time, provide support to BAME photographers and local BAME communities.
The Digital Diaspora project will be providing two bursaries for emerging BAME artists to create new work and will be running workshops within the local BAME community.
If you want to find out more about the project, or the opportunities visit the website at www.reframed.uk