Drawing Inventions Academy is een mastertraject voor professionele kunstenaars voor wie tekenen het uitgangspunt is. Per traject worden maximaal 12 deelnemers uit de aanmeldingen geselecteerd. Inmiddels hebben 71 kunstenaars het mastertraject succesvol doorlopen. In september 2025 zijn we gestart met de nieuwe groep. Voor de volgende aanmelding is 1 juli de deadline.

Contemporary drawing has established its own position in the art world over the past twenty years. The quality of medium ranges from the directness of drawing a line to technically elaborate drawings with great originality and expressiveness.
We start from drawing as an autonomous discipline and from this vision we will explore and stretch the limits of drawing with participants, always starting from the individual quality and need of the artist. All possibilities can be explored, for example drawings in series, wall drawings, installations, in book form or as a projection.

Mariette Linders,Marisa Rappard and Arno Kramer developed the idea of DIA out of a lack of a setting in which professional artists were provided with feedback at the master's level. Current mentors are Arno Kramer, Caren van Herwaarden and Marisa Rappard, previously Dineke Blom collaborated on the master's program.