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.

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