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Visual Arts Brampton's Youth art
classes bring out its students best work. Occasionally, students excel
to high levels, reaching great accomplishments in their development. This
list includes some of the most notable of these achievements.
Continously
- Many dozen of the child and teen member have
been accepted into Mayfield School of the Arts, for high school, and
later on accepted into arts programs at Sheridan College, Ontario
College of Arts and Design.
In 2005
- May - Sarah Frid organizes and curates
an exhibit of past and present VAB students, who were or are in Mayfield
School of the Arts.
In 2004
- January - Nicholas Moreau was chosen
among all the students at his high school, to design literacy posters,
for eventual use in school across the Peel Board of Education.
In 2003
- November - Nicholas Moreau was invited
to teach cartooning at the START Leadership Conference at Turner Fenton
Secondary School.
In 2002
- Many youth members are in the permanent
collection of the Art Gallery of Peel, thanks to the internationally
entered "...it's in the mail" exhibit held in the gallery.
- Jordan Graham-Dalzell was a winner
of the Royal Canadian Legion's contest,
having her work submitted to the national level of competition for
a Rememberance Day poster.
- Alex Procenko
won the Brampton Arts Council's Visual Arts Award for Helen Wilson
Public School.
- Some teen members were hired through
the group to work on a safety mural for Bramalea City Centre.
- Some teen members were hired through
the group to paint murals for local A Buck or Two windows.
In 2001
- Six of the eleven winners, including
the grand prize winner, in HACE/Coca-Cola's "My Neighbourhood, My
Life" art competition were Visual Arts Brampton students. Their works
were then purchased by Coca-Cola Canada for their permanent collection.

Ilichna Morasky, Keith Moreau,
Nicholas Moreau, Amber Menezes and Jennifer Cuthbert (not shown) worked
on a mural promoting safety, on display at Bramalea City Centre.
Photo By Bryan Johnston, The Brampton Guardian.
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