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Documents, toolkits, resources and guides for artists and the visual arts sector.
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Research digest: The role of the artist in society 2023
The research digest explores evidence on socially engaged artists, examining how their roles, funding conditions, and working practices intersect with social impact, inequality, and cultural policy, and how these dynamics shape their position in society and public funding systems.
Approx. reading time: 12–18 mins.
Artist support, bid writing and funding consultant - Working With
Freelance consultancy, which supports artists and creative practitioners with funding applications, bid writing, and strategic development, with a focus on improving access to arts funding and supporting underrepresented or neurodivergent creatives.
Approx. reading time: 2–4 mins (of homepage)
The Creative Health Quality Framework
The framework sets out principles for delivering high-quality creative health work, focusing on person-centred, equitable, safe, and sustainable practice across arts and wellbeing projects.
Approx. reading time: 12–18 mins.
Accessible in person meetings
Our YVAN accessible in person meetings guide.
Approx. reading time: 8–15 mins.
Accessible online meetings template
Our YVAN accessible online meetings template guide.
Approx. reading time: 4-8 mins.
Report on significance of the Artist’s Resale Right (Nov 2024)
The report examines how artists use collective licensing schemes and secondary income streams to support their practice, and highlights the importance of fair remuneration systems like Payback and licensing in sustaining visual artists’ livelihoods in the UK.
Approx. reading time: 6–10 mins.
Arts-based engagement: a guide for community groups, artists and researchers
Inc Arts Anti-racist toolkit
An accountability toolkit for arts and cultural organisations that helps them take measurable anti-racist action by selecting and tracking over 100 practical commitments across hiring, leadership, and workplace culture.
Approx. reading time: 2–4 mins (homepage).
Digital Rights Toolkit
This toolkit explains how artists and cultural organisations can manage copyright and permissions when sharing or distributing creative work online, covering contracts, terminology, and practical steps for clearing rights in digital contexts.
Approx. reading time: 10–15 mins.
Artist Network Log
An interactive mapping and research tool that documents artists, networks, organisations, and relationships across the Yorkshire and Humber visual arts ecosystem, helping make connections visible and support collaboration across the region.
Approx. reading time: 3–10 mins.
Beam: Building a More Diverse and Inclusive Public Art Sector
A research report on public art commissioning, focusing on why opportunities in the sector often fail to attract a diverse range of artists.
Approx. reading time: 20-30 minutes
CVAN Toolkit Four: Artists and Art Workers (
A practical resource that helps artists from marginalised communities assess how committed commissioning organisations are to equity, inclusion, and fair working practices, using structured prompts and reflection tools.
Approx. reading time: 6–10 mins.
WOVEN: Careers in 100 Seconds: Henry Morris, Felt Artist
OPEN DOORS: The Real Cost of Artist-Led Spaces
Socio-economic Inclusion and Diversity in the Arts A Toolkit for Employers (July 2019)
The Many Costs of Living publication
The Many Costs of Living campaign
CVAN Toolkit Three: Intersectionality
Creative lives: #CreativeNetwork online sessions
