Arts & Culture News

  • Visual culture in old and new Swiss-African connections

    Posted on May 18, 2020

    On 2 and 3 March 2020, Lize Kriel joined colleagues from the UP School of the Arts for a visit to the Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK) in Switzerland. The delegation was led by the Head of School, Professor Alexander Johnson, and also included coordinators of the Music programmes and the...

  • Embodiment and sensory experience in the time of COVID-19

    Posted on May 18, 2020

    Embodiment and sensory experience in the time of COVID-19 In an ironic turn of events, just as the Visual Studies Honours Class of 2020 was about to embark on the topic of Embodiment and Visual Culture, all face-to-face lectures at the University of Pretoria were cancelled. Shortly thereafter,...

  • BA (Fine Arts) Student Exhibition

    Posted on February 28, 2020

    Save the date: Please join us next week for our BA (Fine Arts) Student Exhibition opening on the 5th of March at 6 pm. The show will feature a wide variety of artworks created in the first, second and third-year fine art programs. We are excited to share the amazing hard work of our students!

  • Fine Art master’s student @ the Design Indaba 2020

    Posted on January 22, 2020

    Viola Greyling is a Fine Art master’s student who was selected together with fifty other young creatives to participate in the 2020 Design Indaba Creative Space programme.

  • UPROOTED: End of Year Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

    Posted on November 11, 2019

    UPROOTED features works that are built around diverse and varying theoretical frameworks, as well as a wide variety of different mediums that include video, installation, printmaking, mixed media, painting and conceptual art.

  • China-Africa Design Summit, Tongji Design Week 2019

    Posted on November 08, 2019

    Dr Fatima Cassim, from the Information Design division, was invited by Tongji University’s College of Design and Innovation to present at the inaugural China-Africa Design Summit. The Summit was held on 15 October in Shanghai, China, as part of the Tongji Design Week 2019.

  • MediaArtHistories conference

    Posted on September 26, 2019

    Jenni Lauwrens presented a paper at the MediaArtHistories conference which was held in Aalborg, Denmark from 19-23 August 2019. The theme of the conference was RE:SOUND and the title of her paper was Engineering Empathy Through the Power of Voice.

  • Community engagement at Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital

    Posted on September 03, 2019

    The Honours students in Visual Studies were tasked to cultivate a positive environment for the patients and staff by producing Photo Essays to adorn the walls of the ward.

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