Contact Details

143 Simpson Avenue, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada
Cost: Paid Platform: Online and In-Person

COVID-19 Updates

VAC summer camps are online in 2020. Each week, campers gain access to online instructional videos, printed lesson plans, and art kits containing selected materials for that week’s projects. Art kits must be picked up at the centre before the camp week starts.

About Visual Arts Centre of Clarington

The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC), is a non-collecting, public art gallery located in Bowmanville, within the Municipality of Clarington. For over 40 years, the VAC has been providing the community with quality exhibition and educational programming.

Children’s programs include weekend and evening art classes for ages 4 to 13 years, in-school art education (kindergarten through Grade 12), March break camps, winter break camps, and summer camps for kids and teens of all ages on various themes, such as pottery, pop art, and mixed-media art.

Visit the website for current and upcoming exhibits.

A not-for-profit charitable organization, the VAC is supported by federal, provincial, and municipal funding from the Municipality of Clarington,  The Ontario Arts Council, The Ontario Trillium Foundation, and The Ontario Arts Foundation, as well as corporate and individual donors and by membership and volunteers.