Visual
Arts Brampton
VAB's 15 Year Anniversary
Just the start of a legacy.
THOUGHTS FROM
THE PRESIDENT
by Keith Moreau
From Visual Arts Brampton’s formation in April of ‘86, we have changed and evolved. In our first five years, at our old location, we had a single room with storage space. For almost a decade now we’ve had our beautiful multi-fascited facility which includes complete with drawing and painting area, printmaking areas, and a computer graphics and animation space.
With the start up of a youth division in 1998, the group evolved to serve even more of our community. As of April (our anniversary month), we will further expand our youth division by adding an overflow class. This makes heavy use of our facilities for most Saturdays of the year.
In order to accommodate the computer graphics and animation area, we needed to encroach on the printmaking space. One of our screen printing tables was dismantled and converted into our computer stations. We would like to see more use of our printmaking facilities, and more active use of our studio in general. We commend two of our board, Gerri and Marg for providing the twice monthly open studio time.
A timely decision to acquire storage space has provided a more open drawing and painting area, by allowing storage of our horses during non-peak periods. The screen printing screen storage rack was also moved into the storage space.
As you can see from the list at to the right, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays are well used. But the rest of the time, our studio usually sits empty. So the board would like input as to what workshops and/or sessions you would like. Take note that we are offering adults a chance to explore the creativity of art through computers. This 6-week workshop is listed to the right.
In our formative years, we staged events like Infoart, Gold Mine '89 (a silent art auction at the Art Gallery of Peel), and our annual juried art exhibit. A silent art auction at the gallery would now require a rental fee, and our juried show died with the loss of our community gallery. But region, through the Art Gallery of Peel, now provides a small community exhibit space.
In April of 1998, Visual Arts Brampton launched City Centre Exhibit Space in Bramalea City Centre, which by the year end, moved to a new, current location, and is now known as Artway. These community exhibits garner a much larger audience than the space we lost and creates an awareness of our group, and all that we offer.