William Davis Centre for Actors Study
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| Type | Open |
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| Established | 1995 |
| President | Alan Phillips |
| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Campus | 600 - 570 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC Canada, V6B 1Y1 |
| Nickname | VanArts |
| Affiliations | PCTIA, BCCCA |
| Website | vanarts.com |
Vancouver Institute of Media Arts (VanArts) is a private post-secondary school in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada founded in 1995 focusing on classical animation.
VanArts is accredited through the Private Career Training Institutions Agency (PCTIA).
VanArts was founded in 1995 with Lee Mishkin as its founding program director.
The first campus for VanArts was on West Broadway street in Vancouver, and by 1998 it had moved downtown to 837 Beatty Street. Originally offering programs for classical and computer animation, the school expanded to offer Game Art & Design in 2003 and Visual Effects in 2004. Upon adding the first Digital Photography program in North America in 2006, VanArts needed to expand and moved to a new campus at 626 West Pender Street. In 2008, the William Davis Centre for Actors Study joined up with VanArts and became its Acting department. Another move happened in 2010 to its current location at 570 Dunsmuir Street. 2011 brought new departments for Web Development & Interactive Design, and the addition of Broadcasting for Radio & Television from the esteemed faculty of Columbia Academy School of Broadcast Arts.
2011 also marked VanArts’ first degree pathway agreement with Woodbury University in Burbank, CA, soon to be followed by further pathways with Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, Bond University and Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand, University of Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom. In 2013, VanArts signed an agreement for its first local degree pathway with the Vancouver campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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