Our Mission: Vashon Center for the Arts, a collaborative and community-based organization, provides a center for the arts on Vashon Island, initiates quality arts experiences for all ages and creates opportunities for artists to perform and exhibit their work. VCA, once VAA, evolved from the Vashon Arts League, formed in 1949 by Island artist Fred Eernisse and two other notable Island artists, Norman Edson and Art Hansen. Their vision was a simple one – to show art created by Islanders. After 31 years at the same location VAA has grown, from a staff of four to a staff of 8 full time employees, from a handful of classes to 120 classes offered every year, from a dozen events to more than 40 per year, a full-fledged dance program, monthly rotating gallery shows and much more. VAA’s roots run deep and now we are ready to bloom into a true arts campus with a new stage, more sophisticated than the lovely barn of long ago. Thank you to all of those that came before us, to those that are here today and to the unnamed of tomorrow. Art is our history and our future.