State Visual Arts Advisory Board is established for the purpose of advising and assisting the Arts council on the general advancement of the visual arts and to support a vibrant community of visual artists, visual arts groups and organizations so that the public can experience the highest standard of visual arts, in Sri Lanka.
Visual Arts include a range of media such as painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, live art/performance, crafts, Architecture, film, video or other digital imaging media.

State Visual Arts Advisory Board is functioned two ways to promote folk appreciation of the public through the achievement of the above aims.

• Direct activities for the Visual Arts.
• Intervention for the development of Visual Arts.

Direct Activities for the Visual Arts

• Divisional Projects based on Arts and Sculpture .
• National Projects based on Arts and Sculpture.
• International Projects based on Arts and sculpture.

Exhibitions, Workshop, Conferences and Publications are carried out under the above mentioned three categories

Intervention for the development of Visual Arts

• Development of National Art Gallery
• Restoration of welfare for the Artists
• Establishment of a Museum for the Arts and Sculpture.

Annual Programmes of the  Arts and Sculpture Panel

• State Arts and Sculpture Festival
• State Children’s Arts Festival
• “Our Painters” National Arts Exhibitions
• Annual workshops for Arts Teachers and Children
• Visual Arts Bi-Annual Painting Exhibition
• Painting Conservation Project of the National Art Gallery