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The Visual Arts Centre believes that creative expression is a source of vitality and renewal crucial to contemporary living. We provide a learning environment where individuals of all ages and levels can develop as fully as possible their skill, expertise and expressiveness in a chosen medium.
We believe that the arts contribute significantly to the quality of life in our communities and seek to foster alliances that can help bring the visual arts more fully into the centre of our lives.
The Centre’s School of Art provides excellent and accessible art instruction. Admission to introductory courses is based on the interests of the student; no formal education is required. Our small classes, taught by professional artists, offer much individual attention to each student. Classes are bilingual and are designed for professionals, amateurs, or students wishing to develop a portfolio.
The Centre’s School of Art balances the teaching of technical skill with personal creativity through three distinct departments. Our Fine and Applied Arts Department offers over 70 courses a semester in a wide variety of art disciplines. In ceramics, both sculpture and pottery are taught in our well-equipped studios. Our Youth and Teen Department offers year round classes including a fine arts summer camp. For those 60 and over, our Mature Students Section offers a 20% discount. Workshops by visiting artists and the Centre’s own faculty enhance the programme throughout the year.
The Centre’s McClure Gallery also offers a dynamic selection of monthly exhibitions by local and international contemporary artists as well as accompanying artists’ talks.
Note: The VAC is guided by a Code of Ethics and an Anti-harassment policy both of which are available upon request.
Whether you’re returning or coming for the first time, we welcome you to the Visual Arts Centre and our fall-winter season. We have lots to offer you, from a full slate of core courses in beginner drawing and painting to intermediate and advanced courses in Classical Drawing Techniques, Watercolour Studio or the Principles of Japanese Painting.
Our applied arts also continue to offer traditional ceramic courses in wheel throwing or handbuilding techniques as well as exciting jewellery design workshops. Innovative and challenging new courses and workshops are also part of our curriculum such as a Master Class in Printmaking with Paul Machnik or Drawing in Mixed Media.
The fall season in our McClure Gallery begins with an exciting show of works by Dan Brault followed by Eliza Griffith’s painterly explorations of gender politics, sexuality and power. The winter season includes exhibitions by our faculty member, Ian Shatilla, as well as well known artist Eric Simon who turns curator, featuring four artists whose work explores the rich links between the written word and the drawing process. See our gallery page for the full list of exhibitions.
Our doors are open all year round, mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekdays and weekends so we hope you’ll join us either in the studio or in the gallery this coming season.
Victoria LeBlanc
Executive Director
Dean Barrière President
Nikola Reford Vice President
Emily Bailey Treasurer
Deirdre McIlwraith Secretary
Charles Colby
Sara Peck Colby
Cynthia Dinsmore
Anthony Hobbs
Norma Morgan
Elizabeth Shapiro
Linda Sutherland
Richard Sutton
Robert Tellier
Nicole Forbes
Pierre Henry
Virginia McClure
Sean Murphy
Lydia Sharman
Manon Vennat
Victoria LeBlanc: Executive Director
Joanne Chase Assistant Director
Manon Lacroix Registrar
Vincent Beauchemin Assistant Registrar
Andrée Anne Vien Gallery Exhibitions Co-ordinator
Renée Duval Gallery Exhibitions Director
Cathy Ransom Accountant
Christina Thomson Outreach Coordinator
Olaf de Winter Ceramics Technician
Cynthia di Rienzo Ceramics Technician
Duncan Chrisholm Custodian
Ashburton Holdings Inc.
Canadian Heritage - Government of Canada
City of Westmount
Conseil des arts de Montréal
DJS Holdings
EJLB Foundation
Human Resources Development Canada
Victor Isganaitis
Métro Richelieu
Virginia McClure
Dr. Sean Murphy
Pratt & Whitney
Reeks Investments
TD Bank Financial Group
Velan Foundation
Webster Foundation
Zeller Family Foundation
Grateful recognition to all our private donors.
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