The VCA is an international centre for excellence in education, specialist training and research in the arts. The VCA is the nation’s cultural laboratory where we challenge the parameters of creative practices. As a powerful source of renewal for Australian artists, the VCA has a sustainable future.

The purpose of the VCA is to provide excellent education, specialist training and practice for emerging artists and practitioners and to support, enhance and challenge the arts professions.

Implicit in everything that it does, the VCA values creativity, ethical behaviour, responsibility, integrity, humanity, respect and generosity.

As an artistic and learning community, the VCA values self-determination, collaboration, excellence, freedom, initiative, individuality, independence and artistic autonomy.

The VCA respects the past, and welcomes the future, valuing perspective, choice, diversity and reflection.