The current location of the Visual Arts Brampton Creative Studio was opened in 1992, moving from another location where the group was founded in 1986. Renovated numerous times since then, the studio is full-equipt for a variety of needs, including painting, drawing, printmaking, digital art, and animation.

Visual Arts Brampton is open every weekday and two weeknights for public use.

VAB has a large collection of image-filled reference books, available for in-studio use or borrowing. Our digital projector allows you to view a selection of international animations or work from a photograph. Try a still life—just browse through our wide selection of items and find something that interests you.

Soon, VAB-produced instructional videos will be available for viewing, thanks to an Ontario Trillium Foundation grant. As well, our library includes art history and how-to books, for inspiration and instruction.

The VAB Studio is located at 1 Bartley Bull Parkway, Suite 10, on the corner of Main Street/Hurontario/Highway 10 and Steeles Avenue, across from Shoppers World.

Photo courtesy Kaneff Properties

WEEKLY SESSIONS
Every week, you can practice your drawing skills with our portrait (Wednesdays, 10 am—2 pm) and life drawing (Tuesdays, 7—9:30 pm) sessions. If you'd rather work on your own thing, our open studio times through the day (Mon, Thu, Fri, 10 am—2 pm), and in the evening (Thursdays, 7—9 pm).

DIGITAL ART FACILITIES
Thanks to a Ontario Trillium Foundation grant in early 2008, Visual Arts Brampton has six laptops for digital art creation. The laptops have the following programs: Adobe Photoshop Essentials, Corel Draw 9, Corel PhotoPaint 9, Windows Movie Maker, Open Office, WS-FTP, browsers Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome. Available on our 2003 Trillium grant desktop computers are programs including Painter Classic, Digicel Flipbook 3.64 Beta and Corel Move 5.