Initiated by Chandraguptha Thenuwara VAFA was first started as the
Vibhavi Fine Arts Studio offering weekend course programmes in . It
evolved into a full-fledged art school under the name of 'Vibhavi
Academy of Fine Arts' in 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.
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 was set up to open up possibilities for adult education as well as
to give an opportunity to students to receive an art education that
were not had opportunity enroll to higher education in visual arts in
state sponsored the art institute.
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 is directed by recognized practising 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.
VAFA courses open to anyone over the age of . No paper qualification
needed. Inner Necessity to do art is enough to enroll any time of the
year for the part time courses except Sundays, Mondays and Public
Holidays.
විෂයයන් සහ පාඨමාලා
Nature Studies
- Foundation course months
- Advance Course months
Drawing and Painting
- Foundation drawing and painting course - months
Still Life Painting
Landscape - Real and imagined
Sculpture - Foundation / Figurative / Replica
Figure Drawing
- Figurative drawing and painting course
