Arts Savvy Hanging Workshop
The workshop was hosted by Peter Ford, who is locally known as ‘the hangman’. He has his own business hanging artworks privately as well as for galleries around Durban. We had a student or two attending the workshop but mainly people who had been working in the industry for a while, and who wanted to improve on their skills.
Arts Savvy Photoshop workshop
This workshop was broken up into two separate parts, an introductory lecture and a hands-on lecture, which was held at Vega Brand Communications School. The workshops were hosted by Nivesh Rawatlal, a Photoshop lecturer at CTI and a freelance Graphic designer.
The workshop was for those who had never used Photoshop before as well as those who had been using it for more commercial jobs and wanted to see how it could be used in a more artistic sense. The first information session was very successful, and so we hosted a second group.
The second phase of the workshop held at Vega went very well, and Nivesh was able to give individual hands on help for individuals with photographs they themselves brought along. Notes and tutorials were also supplied by Nivesh for the attendees to take home and work through.
Since having these workshops we have had requests to continue with them and have a new phase of Photoshop workshops.
Schools Workshop
VANSA KZN also hosted an informal information session for individuals in high school as well as those studying art themselves and who wanted to know what to expect when studying for a career in the arts, what jobs are available as well as what challenges might follow.
On the panel we had Nicole Erasmus (part time lecturer at DUT, and has worked for Arts for Humanity, and the African Art Centre), Wesley Van Eeden (owns his own graphic design and illustration company ‘Hope Projects’), Themba Shibase (on behalf of DUT, as well as spoke of his experience being a practising contemporary artist), Amy-Jo Windt (spoke of VANSA, and exhibition organisation) and Bongumenzi Ngobese (DUT BTech Student and won the Gerard Sekoto Prize, and second place in the ABSA L’Atelier this year).
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VANSA KZN ARTS SAVVY WORKSHOPS
