As Director of Contemporary Visual Arts Network West Midlands, Colette Griffin will champion regional arts practice and provide sector support within the West Midlands region. CVAN WM is hosted by DASH and is part of CVAN, the nationwide contemporary visual arts network that leads the collective agenda for policy change in the visual arts.

Colette has three years’ experience working with CVAN as Regional Director of Contemporary Visual Arts Network East Midlands, a role that will now carries out alongside her work with CVAN WM, Prior to joining DASH, Colette was Artist Development Curator at Primary (Nottingham) and a director of New Midland Group.

Colette Griffin comments, “I’m thrilled to be working with DASH to lead CVAN WM into an exciting new period guided by the region’s artists, arts workers and organisations. I’ve had the privilege of working as Regional Director of CVAN EM since 2021 and will call on experiences and learning from this role to help maintain and build sustainable infrastructures in the West Midlands.

“Working across the East and West Midlands I can identity, support and create opportunities for vital cross-regional programming, connectivity and resource sharing, whilst ensuring both networks maintain their distinct identities, responding to the ambitions and challenges that are unique to each region.”