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Initiated by Chandraguptha Thenuwara VAFA was first started as the Vibhavi Fine Arts Studio offering weekend course programmes in 1993. It evolved into a full-fledged art school under the name of 'Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts' in 1996 with a one off grant from the Netherlands organization HIVOS.

'Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts' (VAFA), a non-government and non-profit making institution, was established as an alternative and independent school for teaching fine arts in Sri Lanka.

      
 
 
  An opportunity for you to study art from very beginning to advanced stages with the assistance of collective of acclaimed artists!    
           

VAFA courses in visual arts are STUDIO BASED programs which exposes students to rigorous academic study on one hand and on the other to a highly liberal, avant-garde thinking towards evolving artistic personality in the context of a culturally diverse Sri Lanka.

VAFA as an alternative art school offers a non-certificate oriented art education to students who are unable to access, or have been marginalized by the state art institutions or educational system.

VAFA courses are open to anyone over the age of fifteen. No paper qualifications are needed. 'Inner necessity to do art' is quite sufficient reason to apply for the courses, and for the part time courses can be enrolled at any time of the year. Full time courses are commenced once a year in September.
 

VAFA studios are functioning everyday except Sundays, Mondays and Public Holidays.

VAFA is directed by recognized practicing artists and scholars, oriented not towards the award of diplomas and degrees, but towards imparting knowledge, both theoretical and technical of arts in their social and cultural matrix.

 
 
Last update 2007-01-25...