About VAB
The basic facts about Visual Arts Brampton

The Visual Arts Brampton Creative Studios offers programming six days a week, formal and informal workshops, free community exhibits in four locations, an art collection for sale, and events.

Visual Arts Brampton was founded in 1986, and currently serves members from Brampton, Mississauga, Caledon, Etobicoke, Don Mills, and Orangeville. VAB is a member of the Brampton Arts Council, an umbrella group for the local arts community.

STUDIO PROGRAMMING Most weeks, Visual Arts Brampton's studio hosts seven adult time slots and five youth time slots. Open studios are run Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday in the daytime, Saturday afternoons, and Thursday evenings. Models are brought into the studio for Wednesday daytime portrait sessions, and Tuesday evening life drawing sessions. Each Saturday, five youth sessions are held, for children aged 6 to 18.

EXHIBITIONS VAB Studio is host to the Big Folio Gallery,

FUNDING Visual Arts Brampton is proud to be primarily self-dependant. For the most part, the group runs programming is extremely affordable, while making enough profit to keep the group financially stable. Three times in its history, VAB has received grants from the provincial government for special projects. The three projects funded have been a Lottario matching grant for printmaking equipment and supplies (1992); Trillium Foundation grant for digital art computers (2003); and Trillium grant for newer systems and digital workshop production (2008).

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