Vancouver Island School Of Art — School in Victoria

Reviews of Vancouver Island School Of Art

• Zachary

  Added 2016.08.04

  It is a wonderful place to find your artistic side, once you take one course here, it becomes an addiction, te instructors, staff and fellow students form a creative community where deep transformations take place.
• Timothy

  Added 2015.09.29

  I had some very good experiences while taking courses at VISA, but I also had a few bad ones. I really liked my teachers, the classroom environment, the content we where learning, and the flexible scheduling. Unfortunately, due to a miscommunication between a few different staff members, on portfolio day for my intro drawing class (halfway through the course) all of my work got thrown out because it wasn't being stored in the "correct place". Mind you, this was the only place I had been told by staff that I could store my work at the school. This was incredibly discouraging and disappointing to me, as some of my best works where in there, and I was planning to use those works to apply for a program. I ended up dropping the class.
• Sarah

  Added 2014.10.05

  I've been attending this school taking single classes for the past five years and it just gets better and better. The quality and variety of classes keeps increasing and this year is pretty notable for the number of enthusiastic, hard working young people who are enrolled. Their presence creates a new energy and dynamism in the school.
• Matthew

  Added 2014.09.20

  its ok
• Emily

  Added 2014.04.13

  I'm pretty unhappy with how the school's director handled the situation. We talked and sorted out a deal that I would get a tuition credit for the class that I dropped, and a gift card for the supplies that I lost, which is an agreement I was fine with. When I actually received the card with the credit in it, she suggested that I "pick up a cardboard portfolio for future safekeeping of my work", which I found to be very backhanded, disrespectful, and unappreciated. Especially seeing as I came to class with a portfolio the day I found out that I didn't actually have any pieces to put in it anymore because it had all been thrown in the trash. All in all, I enjoyed my actual classes immensely and will use my tuition credit to take another class at VISA, but I was planning to apply for a program there which I'm no longer doing because of the bad experience I had.
• Jonathan

  Added 2013.05.05

  A supportive community boasting enthusiastic and talented teachers working with intimate class sizes; a great experience for anyone from beginners to established artists.