The Pacific Design Academy is at the forefront of a new kind of arts education. Our dynamic curriculum is dictated by the current & evolving needs of the design marketplace. The quality education you receive is artistically inspired & supported by the latest digital technology. The Pacific Design Academy was founded in 1991, to provide quality education in the 'design arts'. The Academy has grown to become the pre-eminent private design school in Victoria. Our classes are led by practicing professional designers, which ensures our curriculum is appropriate to the needs of the design marketplace. Our graduates emerge with highly marketable skills. The skills you learn here will last you a lifetime.
CAPA is a volunteer organization, managed by a group of dedicated individuals from across Canada who generously give their time and effort to support the Photographic Arts. Our nonprofit society is chartered by the Federal government, allowing us to issue Tax receipts for donations. When you make a donation to CAPA, you may specify wher it will be applied. for example, to the General Fund or the Scholarship Fund, or elsewhere.
When you take a course at our school you will find that you are part of a community. it is a great place to meet people and make friends. Within no time, you will feel right at home in our cozy heritage school building.
We are proud to carry on the tradition, begun in the 1860's in Victoria of the first dealers in classic and contemporary Northwest coast native art. Including traditional potlatch masks, basketry, shamanic devices, button blankets, totem poles, artefacts, and much more. There is always a selection of plains beadwork and artefacts and other North American, Oceanic, and African tribal art. From a Tokugawa, Shogun's Gift cover to a Stag horn carving of the Virgin Mary and don't forget the odd painting we have had by Copley, Rostraten, and Boudain. We seek the unusual and often find it.
Wolf/Sheep is a collective of about 20 artists, designers, writers, multimedia producers and coordinators who's goal is to bring a unique art experience to the people of Victoria. For this reason the collective has merged art production and gallery space into one storefront Wolf/Sheep Arthouse.We at Wolf/Sheep aim to demystify contemporary art and make it available to everyone.