Visual Arts Brampton is a non-profit community art group located in

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formed in 1986 to organize the arts community, providing workshops, and exhibits, among other things. The group moved to its current studio in 1991. The first juried show, under the guise of Brampton Arts Council, featured 68 artworks judged by Pamela Wachna, curator of Toronto's Market Gallery.

Galleries

Visual Arts Brampton runs The Artway Family of Galleries, which includes Artway Gallery (established in 1998) and the Artway Invitational Gallery (established 2010), all in

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. Artway was previously in

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. The Chinguacousy branch of the

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had a gallery space, opened when the facility first did in 1971. The space had its own full-time curator until a renovation in the 1990s. The group managed booking for the space for around a year, before passing the responsibility on to the

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. It was slated for closure in 1996, and VAB petitioned to keep it open. After the closure, the non-profit fundraised to open a new space in

, City Centre Exhibit Space for a while, before being renamed Artway Gallery. The group's annual floral art exhibit, started in 2002 at the Brampton City Hall atrium gallery space. In 2010, the first year the group featured work exclusively created for the exhibit, the art toured from City Hall to Carabram's Canada pavilion, Artway Invitational Gallery, the

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, and

's Four Corners branch.

References

External links

Visual Arts Brampton
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