Maastricht is a true city of culture. A city praised for its visible past, a strong cultural and creative consciousness and many cultural institutions and training programs.
In this landscape today, the Free Academy Maastricht is the professional place for amateur art education in the visual arts.
The Vrije Academie Maastricht’s broad offerings currently include painting & drawing, painting youth, children’s studio, youth studio 12+, graphic design youth, ceramics studio/pottery 14-24 years, photography, sculpture, fashion & sewing techniques, modeling & ceramics, art history, silversmithing, free graphics & linocut, illustrative design, combo course orientation Art Academy.
Making and experiencing fine art is therefore possible at the VAM, for everyone in Maastricht and surrounding municipalities, regardless of age, origin and background. 633 students took advantage of our offerings in course year 2023-2024.
The Vrije Academie Maastricht (VAM), founded in June 2022, is an association of 20 independent visual arts teachers. The VAM stems from the municipal organizational unit Kumulus, but is fully independent.
Until mid-2022, Kumulus, as a center for amateur art practice, offered visual arts classes (as well as music, dance and theater classes), but is now limited to offering classrooms in the familiar locations on Herbenusstraat (theater, dance, visual arts) and in the basement of Centre Céramique (music).
The board of the association consists of:
Chairman: Saïd ten Brinke
Treasurer: Jacques van den Bosch
General board member: Ellen Oosterhof
The Free Academy Maastricht works closely with various partners in Maastricht. As an academy of fine arts, we believe it is important to be a place for everyone and to connect with the city of Maastricht. Thus, we work together with the following partners:
Herbenusstraat 89
6211 RB
Maastricht
Dorpstraat 109 A 01
6227 BL
Maastricht
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