CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalTully, KylaSchrag, Anthony2025-02-262025-02-262025-03-18Tully, K. and Schrag, A. (2025) ‘Community contexts over solutions: observations from the rural art network, Scotland’, The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 55(3), pp. 123–139. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10632921.2025.2473903.1063-2921https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/14179https://doi.org/10.1080/10632921.2025.2473903Kyla Tully - ORCID: 0000-0002-3023-7370 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3023-7370Anthony Schrag - ORCID: 0000-0001-8660-7572 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8660-7572VoR added 24/03/2025.The utilization of arts and culture within public engagement has been of increasing interest to policymakers and funding bodies as a response to socioeconomic issues within Scotland’s rural and remote areas. However, the arts and cultural organizations undertaking projects related to community engagement often navigate these issues in isolation: the contexts experienced by remote and rural organizations that might contribute to, and benefit from, knowledge-sharing with other similar organizations also inhibit the development of community between said organizations. This text illustrates the facilitation of such knowledge-sharing through a Community of Practice and introduces findings from the resulting Rural Art Network Scotland.123–139en© 2025 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Rural ArtsAccess and ParticipationCommunity-BuildingCultural ManagementArticle