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Red Marker Oliewenhuis Art Museum
Oliewenhuis Art Museum is still a relatively young museum even by South African standards. Being only 13 years old, the Museum has shown a steady and interesting growth in its collection.

The permanent collection, which is frequently rearranged, is housed on the first floor and is devoted exclusively to works produced by South African artists. It has a solid foundation of early South African artists, and includes works by Thomas Baines, Jan Ernst Volschenk, Pieter Wenning, Jacob Hendrik Pierneef and Willem Coetzer. The Museum is still in the fortunate position to be able to continually expand on its collection of contemporary South African artists.


A considerable number of works have been acquired through donations and bequests; outstanding among these is a collection of works from the City Council of Bloemfontein. This collection, which was ceded to Oliewenhuis Art Museum at its inception in 1989, together with art works from the National Museum’s permanent collection, formed the nucleus for the future Art Museum worthy of the Provincial capital. A large collection of works donated by the Haenngi Foundation (as a result of the demise of the Pelindaba Museum of African and Modern Art) has assisted the Museum in building a core collection representing works of some of South Africa’s most celebrated artists.

Contacts

Telephone: (051) 447 9609

Physical Address:
16 Harry Smith Street
Bloemfontein
Free State

Website: http://www.nasmus.co.za
 

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  • art museum/collection
  • Free State
Red Marker University of Free State Fine Arts
Art School . Development

The Fine Arts are not simply a field of study, but a vocation. Students at the undergraduate level can choose to pursue either the four-year B.A. (Fine Arts) degree or a three-year Diploma in Fine Arts.
An education in Fine Arts contributes to the development of a student’s creativity, imagination, innovative thinking, critical ability and visual literacy. A wide variety of career possibilities await the graduate, primarily in the worlds of art, advertising, museums and education.
Both B.A. (Fine Art) and Diploma courses involve the following disciplines: Drawing; History of Art; Painting; Printmaking; and Sculpture. An additional mandatory subsidiary subject (such as a language) can be completed within the first two years of study. For those students wishing to incorporate alternative or new media in the arts, a multi-disciplinary approach is available in the senior years of study. The Department’s has well-equipped studios where students are taught by practicing artists who are expected to participate and excel at local, national and international levels.
 
Staff
Ben Bothma (Head of School)
Janine Allen-Spies
Angela de Jesus
S Morata
Nontombi Ntakakaze
T Sarluis-Meyer
T Spies
B Van Zwijndrecht
D Vermeulen
A Von Maltitz
 
Contact
Telephone: +27 (0) 51 401 2369
Physical Address:
Old Kovsieport Building Kovsie Street
University of the Free State Campus
Bloemfontein
9301
 
Postal Address
P.O Box 339
Bloemfontein
9300
South Africa

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  • Free State
Red Marker Fractal
Project Space . Collective . Events . Emerging Artists
Fractal originated as a result of younger artists finding it increasingly difficult to make a living from the arts. The idea developed to try to promote the arts among the young people of Bloemfontein, and to involve them in productions, workshops and exhibitions. One of the collective’s aims is to educate the general public and thus awake in them the desire to preserve our national art museums, and the project enjoys a close relationship with the Oliewenhuis Museum in Bloemfontein.
 
Key people:
Ester Le Roux
Penny George
 
Phone: + 27 (0) 51 447 9609
 
Physical Address:
16 Harry Smith Street
Bloemfontein

Free State 

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