education/training

Education/Training . Emerging Artists . Printmaking

Education/Training . Project Space . International Exchange . Seminars/Forums

The Market Photo Workshop was started by world-renowned photographer David Goldblatt in the late eighties. At the outset, the aim was to provide visual literacy and practical training to young photographers who were excluded from formal training in tertiary education institutions by the policies of the government at the time. Located in Newtown, Johannesburg, the Market Photo Workshop strives to create an environment where students learn not only the technical and conceptual aspects of photography, but also the thinking integral to the understanding of contemporary photographic practice.

Through its various endeavours and ongoing projects the Market Photo Workshop continues to make strong links with organisations both locally and internationally.  The Market Photo Workshop has played a crucial role in establishing new voices in South African photography. Alumni include: Jodi Bieber (seven times World Press Winner), other World Press winners like Themba Hadebe, and Sydney Seshibedi; and internationally acclaimed photographers such as Nontsikelelo Veleko and Zanele Muholi.

 

Key People:

John Fleetwood (Director)

 

Tel: +27 (0) 11 834 1444

Fax: +27 (0) 11 834 1447

Email: info@marketphotoworkshop.co.za

Website: www.marketphotoworkshop.co.za

 

Physical Address:

2 President Street

Newtown

Johannesburg

2000

Art School . Tertiary . Research . Project Space . International Exchange

The WITS School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersand is a multi-disciplinary art school offering a visual arts programme which intersects with a variety of other disciplines both within and outside of the school. The school has strong linkages across the continent and internationally, and has a project space (the Substation) which shows exhibitions of student and graduate work, as well as the work of visiting artists.

 

 

Georges Pfruender (Head of School)
David Andrew and Walter Oltmann (Heads of Division)
Jeremy Wafer
Jo Ractliffe
Zen Marie
Gabi Ngcobo
Donna Kukama
Rory Bester
Anitra Nettleton
Federico Freschi

 

 

Tel: +27 (0) 11 717 4613
Fax: +27 (0) 11 339 3601
Email: david.andrew@wits.ac.za

 

Physical Address:

1 Jan Smuts Avenue Braamfontein 2000
Johannesburg South Africa

 

Postal Address:

WITS School of Art

Private Bag x3
Johannesburg 2050

 

Art School . Research . International Exchange . Gallery

The Department of Visual Art, previously named Fine Art, has entered a challenging new era: within a new comprehensive university architecture, which builds on the foundation of skills and knowledge for the visual arts industries; within our new home on the Bunting Road Campus in Auckland Park; and within the challenges facing the Higher Education sector today.  At no time in the past has there been such a growing need for strong and sound literacy’s within visual culture and identity. The Department, in realising this need, has developed its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to support and facilitate a passionate and articulate voice in both the students' work and lives. 
Further, in an effort to enhance its offering to students, the staff is encouraged to promote a healthy environment of critical debate, research and art creation within national and international contemporary studio practice. Our students are taught to develop their technical, conceptual and communication skills in order to forge a career within the diverse visual arts industries. 

 

David Paton

Leora Farber

Meyer Taub

 

Tel: +27 (0)11 559 1098/1117
Fax: +27 (0)11 559 1134
Email: web-fada@uj.ac.za

Website: www.uj.ac.za

Physical Address:

FADA Building
University of Johannesburg
Bunting Road Campus, Auckland Park 

Postal Address

PO Box 17011
Doornfontein
2028
South Africa

Art School . Project Space

This department is amongst the larger Fine Arts Departments in Southern Africa.

It counts many of South Africa’s leading artists among its former students and staff. These include the likes of Esias Bosch, Jean Beeton, Braam Kruger, Gunter van der Reis, Ian Redelinghuys, James MacNamara, Kevin Roberts, Egon Tania, Danie de Wet, Henk Serfontein, Zondi Skozana, Solly Malope, Michael Tefo, Cecile Heystek, Leon Theron, Maxi Pretorius and many more.

 

Abrie Fourie

Egon Tania

 

Tel: +27 (0) 12 382 6159

Fax: +27 (0) 12 382 6184

Email: cugnolice@tut.ac.za

Website: www.artut.co.za

 

Physical Address:

24 Du Toit Street

Pretoria

South Africa

 

Art School

The Department offers a multidisciplinary environment within which you can explore your creativity and stretch your intellectual boundaries. We offer exciting and challenging under- and postgraduate degree packages and modules in Art History, Fine Arts, Information Design, Visual Communication and Visual Studies up to doctoral level.

In the years of its existence the Department has produced not only outstanding practitioners, but also influential theoreticians.

 

Professor Margaret Slabbert (Head of School)

Elfriede Dreyer

Nicola Grobler

Diane Victor

Guy Du Toit

Magdel Fourie

Pieter Swanepoel

Prof Amanda Du Preez

Jenni Lauwrens

 

Tel: +27 (0) 12 420 2353

Email: Petro.moraal@up.ac.za

Website: http://web.up.ac.za/default.aspipkCategoryID=1584&subid=1584&ipklookid=9&parentid=

Physical Address:

Corner Lynnwood and University Road

Brooklyn

0008

Pretoria

South Africa

Art School

The Fine Art course at the Vaal University of Technology will equip the graduate to operate as a practising professional artist and craftsperson in the national and international arenas. Given the diversity of academic and technical skills the graduate will have, he/she would be able to make an academic and economic contribution to the arts. The graduate will also be equipped to operate as an entrepreneur and set up his/her own workshop or studio, and negotiate the art world effectively. The graduate would be able to find employment in the art industries, for example in educational institutions, museums, art galleries, publishing houses, ceramic industries, advertising agencies, film companies and TV production houses, working in conjunction with architects in the decoration of buildings (mosaics, murals) or doing commissioned works such as portrait paintings, drawings or monuments.

 

Kiren Thathiah (Head of School)

Avita Sooful

 

Telephone: +27 (0) 16 950 0174/ 950 9312

Fax: +27 (0) 16 950 9772

Email: kiren@vut.ac.za

Website: www.vut.ac.za/visual

 

Physical Address:

Andries Potgieter Blvrd

Vanderbijlpark

South Africa

 

Art School

It is the mission of the Department of Art History and Visual Arts to make education in the visual arts accessible to all who have fulfilled the entrance requirements of the University.

We take cognisance of the cultural diversity and needs of our students within a dynamic and democratic society.

We aim to promote visual awareness and nurture creative and critical skills, committing ourselves to attain high standards and to strive to be of service to the community.

Our teaching policy does not assume that students come to us to gain access to some form of universal 'knowledge' and 'truth'. We believe that education is negotiated between the student and the university. Students bring their own reality; their own structures of knowledge and truth, formulated by their own specific cultural, social, political and economic experiences and perspectives.

We, on the other hand, provide the student with a course structure that attempts to allow all students to grow and realise their potential, while offering our skills, expertise and experiences in the making, understanding and promotion of visual art in the spirit of the University's stated aim of pursuing free, open and critical scholarship.

 

Ania Krajewska

Celia de Villiers 

Lawrence Lemaoana

Nathani Luneburg

Setumane Justice Jimmy Mokoena
Nombeko Mpako

Kabelo Maja

Sharlene Khan

 

Tel: +27 (0) 12 429 6621/ 6798

Email: ndalafs@unisa.ac.za

Webite: www.unisa.ac.za

 

Physical Address

The Department of Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology

Sunnyside Campus

Building 12c

cnr Walker and Joubert Streets

Pretoria

South Africa

 

Postal Address

P.O Box 392

UNISA

0003

South Africa

Publishing . Contemporary Gallery . Alternative Space . Emerging Artists . Publishing . Production

 David Krut Publishing was established in 1997, one of the first specialist publishers for the contemporary arts scene in South Africa. Aside from producing the first major publication on William Kentridge, DKP has been responsible for producing the Taxi Art Book series of critically acclaimed publications on a range of leading South African artists. DKP has outlets in Rosebank and at Arts on Main in Johannesburg, and at the Montebello Design Centre in Cape Town.

 

David Krut Print Workshop (DKW) was established in 2000 to provide professional printmaking facilities in Johannesburg. In the collaborative environment of the workshop, artists and printmakers create limited-edition prints and unique works on paper. DKW has worked with over 65 established and emerging artists.

 

Launched in March 2007, David Krut Projects has venues in New York and Johannesburg, the latter located a few doors down from the book store and print workshop in Rosebank. The Project/Gallery space has hosted a number of exhibitions, book launches and other events, involving a cross-section leading South African contemporary artists and creative initiatives.

 

David Krut

Jill Ross

Shaun Marais

 

 

(Bookstore and Print Workshop – Johannesburg Inner CIty)

Arts on Main

Main Street

City and Suburban

Johannesburg

Telephone: +27 (0) 11 334 1209

   

Postal Address:

PO Box 892, Houghton

2041 Johannesburg