Be Part of the Bigger Picture

Join VAGA from as little as 58p a week as an individual  (38p concessions, 35p Starting Out) or from 86p a week for organisations - can you afford not to?

VAGA is an active professional network.

Membership offers the opportunity to network, learn and share with colleagues from across the visual arts. By working with other members you can influence policy, engage with the political context, develop new thinking and shape the future.

Membership enables you as an individual or an organisation to be one step ahead ahead and build your individual and organisational skills, knowledge, capacity and ideas.  

As a member:

• Be informed through weekly bulletins, updates and briefings covering the latest policy developments, news, jobs, conferences and professional development opportunities
• Access member only reference materials and resources
• Network and develop your career through meetings and seminars on a wide range of topics
• Join tours to exhibitions and events such as the Manifesta, Liverpool Biennial, Venice Biennale
• Exchange knowledge, share intelligence and skills in specialist groups
• Inform VAGA's advocacy and lobbying
• Benefit from VAGA's connections and diverse membership
• Promote your work through your profile page, contribute images to the website
• Be listed by parliamentary constituency on VAGA’s Epolitix microsite  (organisation members only)
• Advertise jobs to members at a discounted rate
• Access specialist visual arts legal service at discounted rate: Contracts for the Visual Arts
• Enjoy free/concessionary entry at amongst others The Hayward Gallery, Manchester Art Galleries, Tate, National Portrait Gallery, Museums Sheffield and Towner
• Scottish members have an additional programme of events, lobbying activity and tailored information