We are happy to say that DVSA is once again open. However, for the summer months, it is in a limited capacity. While our Art Camps are operating, access to the school is available between 10:00 – [...]

Updated June 24/2020 We are pleased to announce DVSA is offering a modified version of our Children’s Summer Art Camps. Health and safety is paramount and we are strictly adhering to the [...]

Children & Teen Summer Online Art Camps Still not ready to have your family return to the studios – here’s the next best thing! We have a number of fun and specifically tailored online [...]

DVSA Pop-Up Online Art Auctions feature pieces submitted for our to-be-rescheduled 50th Art Auction. All proceeds are split between the school and the submitting artist. Feel free to bid [...]

The health and safety of our students, faculty and staff is paramount. Due to the ongoing situation with COVID-19, we’ve implemented numerous safety measures in the school to help prevent [...]

Our digital Art Care Packages contain a collection of things you may find inspiring, mood brightening, informative, useful, calming or just entertaining entrances to “rabbit holes” sure to help [...]

“Art is a good way of grounding oneself. It’s a coping mechanism; it fundamentally saves us… Not save us… the way scientists, doctors, health staff and food providers will keep us alive, [...]

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 [...]

With great disappointment, we have postponed our 50th Art Auction. The situation with COVID-19 made it clear we could not successfully run the April event and, most importantly, ensure the health [...]

Our wildly popular First Friday series offers three art options: regular fave Licensed To Draw (and Paint) and the hot ticket item, Licensed To Watercolour. New is our Licensed To Abstract Paint. [...]

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 [...]

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

DVSA Parents, Our apologies for the late decision to cancel our March Break Art Camp programs. Developments were moving very quickly throughout the previous week and when the announcement came [...]

2018-19 was an extraordinary year for DVSA, featuring more great artwork from our studios and significant growth in community engagement as we reached a new milestone of 6,337 annual [...]

Our biannual newsletters share DVSA highlights over a 6 month period. Read on to see what we’ve been up to. View our Autumn 2019 Newsletter here Past newsletters: Spring 2019 Autumn 2018 [...]