Viva Vida Art Gallery and Art Centre

Our mission is to support and promote quality, contemporary art in all different media. It is a Gallery and Centre that serves its community and strives to reach beyond its borders. It encourages and promotes public awareness, understanding and appreciation of the arts by recruiting and involving the public in the art process, all the while working hard to promote and support its artists. Values • Accessibility: Viva Vida is a working gallery. Its mandate is to communicate, educate and create, always involving the public; in short, it is a people’s gallery • Community: We strive to connect to community, on the local, national and international scale. • Collaboration: We collaborate with a network of community partners in art, education, and business. • Education: We maintain a high standard of education in all areas of Gallery life: art, culture and leisure programs, exhibitions and acquisitions. • Credibility: Trustworthiness and dependability are key components of fostering relationships. • Excellence: We strive for excellence in all that we do. Our Vision Art is expression, communication, exploration. It is a plunge into creativity. It can please us or upset us. Art educates us and challenges us. It can reflect or influence our reality. "Art is life…life is art”.