This Fall is off the hook! Over 130 art classes – 35 of them brand new! There’s courses in Drawing, Painting, Pottery, Collage, Sculpture, Photography, Printmaking, Jewellery Art, Stained [...]

Have your family take part in an imaginative experience that many children (and parents too!) say is the highlight of summer. Taught by qualified, professional artists, DVSA Summer Art Camps [...]

Yes, our Art Camps for Children & Teens are the main focus of summer, but we still offer a variety of Adult classes in 1-day, full week and short term class options. Spend a relaxing and [...]

Full-time study in DVSA’s Advanced Studio offers an innovative and alternative art education for both the post-secondary and mature student. Rather than a conventional approach consisting of a [...]

The month of July is your chance to see the wide range of vibrant artwork by our 2019 RBC Student Visual Award recipients. Sponsored by RBC, the Visual Art Awards are an opportunity to celebrate [...]

Part of our DVSA Advanced Studio, Foundation Studies in Visual Art is a 1-year introductory program is divided into four stages, beginning with intensive perceptual, formal, experimental and [...]

“I try sometimes to tone it down, sometimes I can, but the intense colours usually make their way to the top!” Julia Veenstra’s work is found in collections around the world. As a painter, her [...]

Our “For The Petrified” series offers shorter, absolute beginner courses in four key disciplines – Painting, Drawing, Pottery and Printmaking. These courses are designed to offer the [...]

Our wildly popular First Friday series offers two art options: regular fave Licensed To Draw (and Paint) and the hot ticket item, Licensed To Watercolour. Held on the first Friday of the month, [...]

Our Spring 2019 Newsletter shares DVSA highlights from the past 6 months including Auction news, flourishing partnerships and some illuminating building improvements. Take a look here.    

Trick or treat! We’ll have the whole family ready for pumpkins, ghouls and broomsticks with studios full of hair-raisingly fun art projects. Our FREE Family Art Day Open Houses are all about [...]

Fall’s most creative art party is back! November 9, 2019 7:00 p.m. – DVSA Loft Studio Listen for your number to be drawn and then choose your favourite from over 150 stunning art pieces all [...]

DVSA artist, Dagmar Vrkljan, speaks about the work, influence and legacy of her father, renowned Czech artist Vojtěch Kubašta, whose three dimensional “pop-up book” books have been published in [...]

A desire to understand my place in the universe drives my work. Using sculpture and drawing, my work meditates on the sublime multiplicity of the human experience. The questions in my work stem [...]

Spread the holiday cheer and take part in a festive afternoon of art-full activities – just in time for the winter holidays. Our Family Art Day Open Houses are all about making art and having fun [...]