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 Greatmore Studios. Celebrating 10 years

march.april

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PEOPLE I PLACES I NEWS I OPPORTUNITIES I UPDATES

 

TAG is a professional visual artists’ newsletter providing a global platform to the artists in residency at Greatmore Studios, Cape Town and also to art practitioners within the network of Triangle Art Trust. As an a compliment to a regularly updated web site, www.greatmoreart.org TAG provides artists with relevant updates about the studios, artists’ work and opportunities in the art arena both locally in Cape Town, on the continent and abroad.                                                                                                                      

editor’s notes …(read more)
on the web …(read more)
in this issue our news
  • Shifting Gears TAG highlights important direction emerging from a recent board meeting …(read more)
  • NuExpectations TAG welcomes five new artists on the block …(read more)
  • Back to Back visiting artists talk art and make meaningful contributions in the community …(read more)
  • Tea with a Potter TAG takes 2 with Pakistan ceramicist Sadia Salim …(read more)
  • Behind the lens Greatmore Studios hosts a One Minute Video art workshop …(read more)
  • The Deserts Between an exhibition of South African and Finnish artists Kuopio, Finland…(read more)
  • Building capacity Greatmore Studios plays host to a business seminar and writing course geared at artists …(read more)
  • Thupelo Cape Town negotiates plans to facilitate an art and craft workshop in early August …(read more)
in the loop beyond Greatmore Studios
  • Memories of Thupelo 2007 Urban Workshop International Artists reflect on their experiences …(read more)
  • Lionel Davis exhibits at the Gill Allderman Fine Art Gallery …(read more)
  • Jill Trappler exhibits at the Seippel Gallery in Johannesburg …(read more)
  • Winter programme at Orange Street Studios …(read more)
  • Ena Carstens prepares for a residency in Mauritius …(read more)
  • Space  Resident artist Nkoali Nawa exhibits at the AVA …(read more)
  • Upstairs/Downstairs Nandipha Mntambo and Dathini Mzayiya exhibit at the AVA …(read more)
  • Cape Africa Platform launch a new project for young creatives …(read more)

experience it.

opportunities in residency, competitions & exhibition opportunities
 
  • Call for applications for the Urban Wasanii international workshop 2008 Kenya …(read more)
  • Call for applications to AIW:A International Workshop Lebanon …(read more)
  • Call for applications for residency 2008/9 France …(read more)
  • Call for applications for internships at the Cape Craft and Design Institute …(read more)
  • Association of Visual Arts invites members to submit artwork to be exhibited …(read more)
  • Emerging artists invited to participate in a group exhibition, at the CTICC Cape Town …(read more)
  • Artists called to make submissions to the Volgograd International video festival …(read more)
  • New Art Exchange invites artists to participating in painting exhibition …(read more)

 

editor’s notes 

 

I like the idea that life is always dynamic. With each day depending on our own openness there are so many different possibilities and experiences to explore. Our daily interactions and exchange with each other propose new thoughts, new ideas and varied perspectives of the world. The true genius of project spaces such as Greatmore, is their ability to continually foster fresh and innovative projects focused around art making. From facilitating meaningful art workshops in the community, to adopting a new vocabulary of video art, our artists continually challenge themselves to push the boundaries of what art making is all about.

April at the studios is bourgeoning with new life as we play host to five emerging artists enrolled in our mentoring workshop. For four weeks participants from across Cape Town and Gauteng commit themselves to experiment with their art practice, shake things up a little and with no fixed agenda just make art. It’s an empowering space coupled with feelings of intense vulnerability and uncertainty. Nestled within a sympathetic environment of professional artists, it is hoped the mentoring workshop will serve as an incubator for fresh ideas that will sustain the artists beyond the short residency. Pop in at the studios on April 24th to visit the artists and view their work in progress.

Speaking of new developments, the team at TAG would like to congratulate Alessio Antoniolli the director of the Triangle Art Network, and Greatmore Studios’ project director, Jill Trappler, for their new assignment as board members at the Bag Factory in Johannesburg (www.bagfactoryart.org.za ).  Art luminary and director of the Bag Factory David Koloane and cultural ambassador,  Robert Loder will serve in an advisory capacity to the board . Special kudos to Koloane for an honorary doctorate conferred to him by the Vaal University of Technology. Koloane has sustained a steady career in art making over the past forty years and has made significant contributions to the cultural scene in South Africa and more specifically in Johannesburg where he resides. The acknowledgement sets a precedent in South African history as most black African artists only receive such accolades posthumously.

Please remember we always welcome your contributions to the content of this newsletter. Email me at tsibanda@greatmoreart.org.za and tell us about interesting new creative projects you are initiating in your community. A hearty thanks extends to Thea Brody, Kitty Dorje and Sisanda Henda for their contributions to this issue of TAG. ?

Tambudzai La Verne Sibanda, Editor

 

p.s. TAG would like to extend its sincerest apologies to art critic and cultural theorist Mario Pissaria for misquoting him in our January.February issue, under the article Siko Rest in Peace. Pissaria did not infact write this review on Siko’s art practice. The writing was an extract taken from the Everead Read Gallery web site, whose writer still remains anonymous. TAG would like to congratulate Pissaria for his efforts in registering ASAI as a section 21 company. For more details about this initiative please visit www.asai.co.za

 

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on the web

www.greatmoreart.org

Please keep posted to our web site www.greatmoreart.org to see updates on a recent One Minute International video art workshop hosted by Greatmore Studios in March. Later this month, the website will also display recent pictures of work exhibited at All Roads, an open studio exhibition hosted by visiting artists working at the studios from January-March 2008. Next website update due 30 April.

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our news
Shifting Gears 
March saw Greatmore Studios host its first board meeting of the year with active trustees Isky Gordon and  Robert Loder make a generous visit from the UK. Plans to redevelop the present infrastructure at Greamore Studios quickly took priority, as discussions around the best possible way forward were negotiated. 2008 marks Greatmore Studios’ 10th anniversary of facilitating intercultural exchange amongst visual artists. At this important juncture in its history, it has become important for artists to look at innovative ways of introducing new studios to meet a growing demand to further facilitate meaningful interaction and exchange between artists. With a mandate to promote professionalism around art making Greatmore Studios will in the near future accommodate an exhibition space where artists can promote their work. Serious efforts are being made this year to not only raise significant funds for this redevelopment but also further profile existing programmes and activities happening in and around the studios, demystifying the role and significance such project spaces have in any given society. For more information about this initiative please contact project director Jill Trappler at artmore@mweb.co.za .
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Nu Expectations 

 

April 2008 sees five emerging artists from Cape Town and Gauteng participate in a four week residency at the studios. The workshop aims primarily to give a new generation of artists an opportunity to experience first hand the realities of working in a studio environment alongside professional artists, providing a platform for critique and challenge to develop innovative work. With no overarching agenda, artists are forced to negotiate their own personal trajectory for their growing art practices. Sisanda Henda caught up with the new visitors to find out more about their individual backgrounds and concerns as young artists working in a competitive industry.Please visit www.greatmoreart.org to read these responses. On 24th April 2008, at 5.30 pm artists participating in this workshop will host a collaborative open studio exhibition at the studios in Woodstock. For more information about Nu Expectations, please visit www.greatmoreart.org or alternatively contact André Barnard on 021 4479699.
 
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Back to Back
For this issue of TAG Sisanda Henda, chats to four visiting artists to mine their thoughts on their brief residency at Greatmore Studios. Visit www.greatmoreart.org to view these interviews.
 
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Tea with a Potter

 

Sadia Salim is Greatmore Studios’ first artist taking residency in our satellite ceramic studio at the Observatory Community Centre. A   self acclaimed ‘potter’ TAG takes time to look at  life through her cultural and artistic lens.
Click here to view an exclusive interview with the artist. Sadia Salim is a widely published ceramicist living in Pakistan. She is currently serving a 6 month residency at Greatmore Studios courtesy of the Commonwealth Foundation. During her residency, Salim will present a series of talks under the theme “Art in Pakistan” that will serve as educational tool to local artists and crafters in Cape Town.

 

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Behind the lens 

 

Despite being a medium that is increasingly developing more weight in global contemporary biennales, video art still occupies a cameo role in most art platforms on the continent. March 2008 saw Greatmore Studios in partnership with the One Minute Foundation (www.theoneminutes.org) in Amsterdam host a five day international video art workshop with 20 participants from a cross section of communities in Cape Town. Initially poised as a workshop for artists based in Cape Town, it was not to our surprise that artists from as far as Kenya, Germany, the USA, Pakistan, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia living in the Cape were also drawn into the mix- this cultural diversity is a very much embedded in the fabric of Greatmore Studios.

Addressing a pool of young creatives gathered at Obz Café for an open screening of the complete videos, Jill Trappler, Greatmore Studios’ project director summed up the pure simplicity and serendipity that surround organising such workshops,
 
“It can take one minute… I met Alite Thijsen from the One Minute Foundation late last year at a strategic meeting organised by the Art Collaboratory…we exchanged cards and kept in touch. In January I encouraged some of the artists at the studios to make a one minute video and send it in for selection for a festival in China; it worked and they were selected. This workshop is really a first for us and there is so much excitement… Alite and Evelien were able to work creatively with a cross section of participants from Cape Town, this in itself was a great achievement as Cape Town is a divided city and they were able to build some bridges while they worked.”
 

For this issue of TAG, Thea Brody (USA) and Kitty Dorje (South Africa) share personal diary entries made during the 5 day workshop.To view these entries please visit www.greatmoreart.org . Special thanks extend to our two Dutch facilitators, Alite Thijsen and Evelien Krijl,  for their tireless efforts containing the workshop, assisting artists conceptualise their videos and finally consolidating all these ideas into 60 second videos. Congratulations to all artists who participated in the workshop, we hope it was a rewarding experience for you all.

 

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The Deserts Between

As part of an ongoing Finnish-South Africa exchange, artists at Greatmore Studios will participate in an exhibition of recent work in Kuopio, Finland that opened on 16 April 2008. The exhibition that forms part of a three-month art festival, is curated by Finnish artist, Kristiina Korpela who in November 2007 visited the studios in Woodstock to complete various site specific installations in the studio courtyard. Please visit www.greatmoreart.org  for a more detailed description bout this intervention. Artists who will feature in this collaborative show include Lionel Davis, Bangikhaya Maqoqa, Lerato Motau, Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi, Loyiso Qanya, Velile Soha, Jill Trappler and Vuyile Voyiya. Zimbabwean impressionist painter, Mercy Moyo has also been included in the line up of exhibiting artists. For more information about this exhibition please contact Korpela at kristiina.korpela@iki.fi

 

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Building capacity
In partnership with Seippel Gallery, Greatmore Studios looks to facilitate a critical writing workshop and business acumen course for artists in Cape Town in May 2008. Spanning two full days, the workshops will run simultaneously over 23rd and 24th May 2008. A German native, Nina Gruntkowski is a freelance journalist specialising in socio- political issues, migration and cultural exchange between Europe and the African continent. Gruntkowski will facilitate a critical writer’s workshop, while Beate Baethke will facilitate two identical one day art management workshops on the identified dates. This workshop will provide an overview of the basic business and economical aspects that creative professionals are typically confronted with. Participants will be taught how to complete delivery notes, invoice, and negotiate funding streams for projects as well as familiarise themselves with relevant tax issues. Creative minds working in a professional capacity in craft, the music industry, design, architecture, advertising, TV, film, radio and publishing and the visual arts should be encouraged to apply. Places are limited- the critical writing course can accommodate up to ten participants, while the business acumen course looks to draw between 40 -50 artists interested in developing their financial literacy. Both workshops are free and interested candidates are asked to email Mishkaah Roberts at applications@greatmoreart.org.za a letter of motivation for participation in either of the workshops, an updated CV and letter of reference to meet the deadline of 2 May 2008. For more information about this workshop, please contact André Barnard on 021 4479699.

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Thupelo Cape Town negotiates plans to facilitate an art and craft workshop in early August
With efforts to secure a sculpture workshop in the Limpopo province later this year currently on a standstill due to infrastructural delays, artists at Thupelo Cape Town are negotiating new plans to draw mid-career visual artists and professional crafters together for a mini- international art and craft workshop. Courtesy of the National Art Council partial funds have been secured for the initiative that would look to happen in early August 2008. For more information about this workshop please keep posted to the website www.greatmoreart.org or alternatively call the Thupelo Cape Town offices on 021 4479699. 
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in the loop

 

Memories of Thupelo 2007 Urban Workshop
 
To read  recent comments by  international artists  on their experiences working at the 2007 Thupelo workshop, please visit www.greatmoreart.org

 

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Lionel Davis exhibits at the Gill Allderman Fine Art Gallery 

 

Cofounder of Greatmore Studios and an active committee member, Lionel Davis will exhibit a new body of work at the newly opened Gill Allderman Fine Art Gallery this April. Opening on 17 April 2007, the exhibition focuses on “works on paper”, and headlines Davis’ delightful collection of figure drawings an silk screen. Lionel Davis’ concerns mainly touch on contemporary issues of identity, racism and xenophobia. There is always time to have fun and his abstract use of materials allows “himself to go with the flow”. Life has many dimensions and he enjoys the exploration. “I simply love the journey through life, “he comments. Also on exhibition will be a body of paintings, ceramics, sculptures and textile hangings from both established and emerging artists. To view this exhibition please visit the gallery on 278 main Road, Kenilworth, Cape Town.

 

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 Jill Trappler exhibits at the Seippel Gallery in Johannesburg

 

March 2008 saw visual artist and project director at Greatmore Studios Jill Trappler exhibit her most recent work at the Seippel Gallery in Johannesburg .The work is the result work that emerged from the artist’s participation in  a recent Thupelo workshop in December 2007. Entitled South African Abstract Art, Vol 1., the show saw Trappler exhibit a wall installation handspun from wool and twigs. For more information about this exhibition that will run until August 2008, please visit http://www.seippel-gallery.com/johannesburg/index.php . Thupelo workshops have over the past twenty years grown to become important art workshops in the South African cultural landscape. They converge local and international artists from  a cross section of communities to work alongside each other for two weeks developing their art practice. For the past ten years, Thupelo Cape Town has found a comfortable home at Greatmore Studios, and is actively seeking to demystify past notions of being an elitist, exclusive coterie of artists that work slavishly after American abstractionism. For more information about Thupelo and its growing history please visit the website www.greatmoreart.org.za.

 

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Winter programme at Orange Street Studios

 

Orange Street Studios is delighted to announce that it will host Michaelis theory lecturer Andrew Lamprecht on 8, 15, 22 and 29 May 2008 .Lamprecht will repeat his summer school lectures that he presented at UCT earlier this year. The lecturers will span for an hour over lunch,13h00 until 14h00. Entrance fee is R20.00. On 9 June 2008, international gallerist and curator Ralf Seippel will facilitate a question and answer session on current art related matters from 13h00 to 15h00 at the Orange Street Studios. This will be followed by a presentation by German artist Ansgar Skiba, on August 2008 from 13h00 to 14h00.Visual artist and project coordinator at Greatmore Studios, Jill Trappler and Paul Birchall facilitate art classes at the Orange Street Studios. To learn more about the art modules offered at the studios please visit www.jilltrappler.co.za  or contact Jill Trappler on 082 5588 115.

 

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Ena Carstens prepares for a residency in Mauritius

Resident artist Ena Cartsens who is currently flexing her artistic muscles, developing a series of life size figurative drawings in charcoal,  will this May participate in a month long residency at pARTage in Mauritius from 12 May to 12 June 2008. A residency programme curated by Mauritian artist, Krishna Luchoomun, pARTage functions under the aegis of the Triangle Art Network and looks to draw local and international artists together to exchange artistic experiences. This residency which will culminate in an ‘open studio’ exhibition will see participating artists share their work in progress with a Mauritian audience. The residency itself will include educational activities that will see the invited artists interact with art students enrolled at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute providing informal talks and presentations about their art practice. The opportunity will afford Carstens the time to work and research alongside two other visiting artists from Kenya and the UK. A residency that is non-prescriptive and process based, it will be interesting to see what creative responses the artists will make in their new environment. For more information about this and future residency opportunities at pARTage please visit www.artshost.org/partage/ . pARTage is a proud laureate of the Trochetia 2007 award , a respected accolade presented by  “Le Mauricien”, for their meaningful contributions to the local Mauritian cultural landscape.

 

“ …we often feel that our work goes unnoticed, this award brings us immense pride and invigorates our faith in our mission to promote art in Mauritius .” 

K. Luchoomun

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Space

A resident artist at Greatmore Studios, Nkoali Nawa will open his most recent solo exhibition ‘Space’ at the Association of Visual Arts (AVA) on 21 April 2008. Nawa’s most recent work follows an ongoing enquiry into the lives of a group of miners working daily in obscurity in the underbelly of the earth. Working exclusively in charcoal, Nawa’s black and white narratives manipulate tone in a way that captures the raw emotions of his subjects, many of whom are never acknowledged for their daily bravery, fear and courage.

“My work simply portrays my experiences working with other people in the mining industry. The pieces are characterised by dark and strong use of line that denotes the hardship experienced by miners in their daily lives.”

For more information about this exhibition please contact the AVA on 021 4247436.

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Upstairs/Downstairs

 

At the cusp of her career, resident artist Nandipha Mntambo’s most recent offering for Upstairs/Downstairs, a collaborative exhibition at the Association of Visual Arts ( AVA) , is a striking social sculpture that speaks of the well constructed defenses, and vulnerabilities that mark a post conflict pysche. Entitled A Ilhathis exotic piece marks a collaboration between the artist and a local Mozambican crafter- it converges abandoned firearms the artist obtained in a recent trip to Mozambique. Curated by Bettina Malcomess, lecturer in theory and history of aesthetics at the Universityof Cape Town, the show intended to interact directly with the gallery space, embraced work that covered a range of work. Guguelective member and resident artist at the studios, Dathini Mzayiya also made his contribution in the form of a collaborative piece. For more information about forthcoming exhibitions at the AVA please visit www.ava.co.za .

A young woman setting a high precedent in the arts, Mntambo is also currently participating in a group exhibition at Hood Gallery at the DartmouthCollege in the USA month as well as in a local exhibition entitled Skin-to-Skin at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg. Mntambo been selected to participate in Dak’Art in May 2008.TAG wishes her the very best of success.

 

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Cape Africa Platform launch a new project for young creatives
Despite some dramatic hiccups over the past two years, 2008 finds Cape armed with humility and much courage as they reposition themselves in the cultural landscape in Cape Town as a project space aimed to meet the real needs of artists on the ground. With a mandate to culturally connect Cape Town to the rest of South Africa, the African continent and the Diaspora across socioeconomic divides, Cape Africa Platform this April is poised to launch the Young Creatives Programme that hopes to facilitate skills development, promoting exchange between young artists working in a diversity of fields from film and video to performance, fashion design and journalism. The programme will consist of weekly Saturday workshops facilitated by leading creative minds. The work that emerges in this focus group will feed into the Cape 09 Exhibition, a contemporary art event that is scheduled to happen at various venues around Cape Town next year. Currently Cape (www.capeafrica.org ) and the Visual Artists Network South Africa VANSA are nurturing a symbiotic relationship as they share a common working space at their new offices in 8 Spin Street in Cape Town. The building does house a project/gallery space that artists can enquire about further, for use for exhibitions/performances or talks. Currently coordinated by Bianca Baldi, VANSA Western Cape is inviting visual artists working in the western Cape to sign up for free membership  that will ensure regular updates about activities in the local art scene taking place in 2008.  Preparations are being made to launch a newsletter in the near feature .For more information please contact Bianca or Tashinga Matindike on vansawesterncape@gmail.com

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 experience it.

opportunities in residency, competitions & exhibition opportunities
 
Call for applications for the Urban Wasanii international workshop 2008 Kenya
 

Offering professional international visual artists a unique opportunity to interact with Kenyan artists working in the urban landscape, the Urban Wasanii workshop will take place for two weeks between 16 June and 28 June 2008.  The cultural exchange encouraged in public spaces will contribute to a positive atmosphere in the city, inviting new local audiences to participate.An initiative of Kuona trust a project space that functions under the umbrella of the Triangle Art Network, Wasanii invites  professional visual artists working in all fields interested in applying to submit a letter of motivation, a detailed c.v. and artist’s statement and 6 jpeg images of recent work ( images should be under 80K each) to urbanwasanii@gmail.com . Kuona will cover artists’ transport to and from the workshop venue in Mombasa, meals and accommodation for the entire workshop. Selected international artists will have to fund their air fare to Kenya. Deadline for applications is 30 April 2008.

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Call for applications to AIW:A International Workshop, Lebanon

 

Professional artists working in the field of painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, video, performance and sound are invited to submit applications to be considered to participate in a two week workshop in Aley, Lebanon from 17 August to 1 September 2008.Functioning under the aegis of the Triangle Art Trust, the workshop looks to bring 20-25 international artists to work alongside each other, sharing ideas and methods for a period of two weeks in the Aley. It is hoped that as artists converge new ideas and opportunities of making art will emerge. A series of invited performers and curators will work alongside the participants of the workshop that will culminate in an open day exhibition at the end of the workshop that will invite a local audience. Interested artists are asked to submit a letter of motivation  ( 200 words), an updated c.v. with relevant contact details and 5-8 digital images of work in JPEG format of a resolution that does not exceed ( 1024X 768) to aiwaworkshop@gmail.com .Note that images of work should be accompanied by titles ,dimensions and short captions(descriptions). Applications including DVD’s of performances or video art may be sent to:

 

Aiwa c/o Lina Hakim

P O Box 13-5509

Beirut, Lebanon.

 

Selected artists will be provided with full lodging, food, working space, local transport and a small material stipend. Travel expenses to Lebanon may also be awarded. Deadline for submissions is 15 May 2008.Selected artists will be notified by the beginning of June 2008.

 

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Call for applications for residency 2008/9 France


The CITÉ Internationale Univeritaire de Paris gives professional non-French artists the opportunity to stay for 3-12 months in Paris to participate in a unique artists’ residency programme between October 2008 and August 2009.Professioanls working in the fields of visual arts (visual art, graphic design, photography, video), architecture and music (interpretation and composition) are invited to apply. Facilities include workshop and sound-proof music studios, and rehearsing spaces. Accommodation is also provided. Artists are asked to cover a rental  fee of between 470-770 euros per month, depending on the type of accommodation and workshop space desired. To receive an application form please contact Delphine Moreau at delphine.moreau@ciup.fr

 

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Call for applications for internships at the Cape Craft and Design Institute

 

The Centre for Innovation is a programme of the Cape Craft and Design Institute dedicated to the promotion of creative and innovative practices within the craft and design sectors. The Centre runs workshops, offers product support and operates an AMTS FabLab and a resources center, that are open access facilities available to visual artists and crafters. Currently the Fablab is looking to recruit interns who have experience in design and have strong problem solving abilities, hands on technical expertise and are able to communicate this knowledge with artists and crafters as they visit the lab. Responsibilities will include coordinating various activities, assisting artists to use equipment appropriately, and documenting and reporting user activities to ensure  functionality and maintenance of equipment. Graduates in the areas of electronics, engineers, computer systems, mechatronics, industrial design, architecture and visual arts are asked to submit a detailed CV, covering letter and names of two contactable referees to Lynne Taylor on taylorl@cput.ac.za or alternatively fax on (021) 461-5101 to meet the deadline of Friday 18 April 2008. For further information on the Cape Craft & Design Institute, please visit: www.capecraftanddesign.org.za.

 

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Association of Visual Arts invites members to submit artwork to be exhibited

 

The Association of Visual Arts will this year play host to the member’s exhibition at the gallery in Church Street from 2 June to 20 June 2008.A public vote for the best submission of artwork to the display will be made, with the winner receiving art material to the value of R 500.Interested candidates must pay the annual AVA membership fee of R85 per person or R35 for students or pensioners, in addition to an exhibition entry fee of R 7. A percentage of this will go towards the Art reach fund that helps assist artists to realise their individual artistic goals as well as initiate meaningful projects in the community. Work rendered in all media is accepted. Work must, be original, framed, stretched and for sale. For more information about participation in this exhibition please email Kirsty at avaart@iafrica.com or contact the gallery on 021 424 7436. Artists must indicate intent of participation in the exhibition by 2 May 2008.

 

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 Emerging artists invited to participate in a group exhibition, at the CTICC Cape Town

 

With strong aims to promote South African art, Cape Town Art & Splendour (CTAS)  is staged to host a group exhibition at the Cape Town International Convention Centre ( CTICC) between 12 an 14 September 2008. Interested artists working in painting, sculpture and conceptual art ( installations) are called to make submissions of at least 5 images of recent work to be considered for selection, an updated biography and CV. The organisers of this event promise an aggressive marketing campaign that looks to attract a large corporate clientele to buy selected work. For more information about exhibition fee costs and commission of work sold, please contact Karina on 082 31 86 535 or alternatively email her on ctas@cta-splendour.co.za .Please visit  the CTAS website, www.cta-splendour.co.za for further details. Deadline for bookings is 30 April 2008.

 

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Artists called to make submissions to the Volgograd International video festival

 

Volgograd International Video Festival Forward»2018 invites artists and curators to participate in a videoart festival in Volgograd, Russia from May-June 2008. The festival looks to draw in an international audience, presenting work from a multiplicity of genres from short-length films and video art to animated cartoons and documentaries. Interested artists below the age of 33 years are called to make submissions of videos by 1 May 2008 (FT) to 400131, Russia, Volgograd, Prospekt Lenina, 21, GUK Volgograd Museum of Graphic Arts. For further information about this festival please contact Fedor Yermolov on forward@interra34.ru.

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New Art Exchange invites artists to participating in painting exhibition

 

The New Art Exchange invites African, African Caribbean, South Asian artists who work in contemporary painting styles, to submit  2D or 3D work for an exhibition opening early 2009 at the New Art Exchange Flagship building. Submissions should include an updated CV, artist statements or proposals, and up to 15 images, CDrom and DVD, including dimensions. Original artwork should not be included. Proposal should be emailed to

michael.forbes@thenewartexchange.org.uk  with the subject “painting”. Deadline for submissions is 30 May 2008.

 

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TAG newsletter is kindly sponsored by:

Africa Beyond & the Art Council of England
The Ford Foundation (FF)
The Development Bank of Southern Africa
HIVOS

The National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF)

National Arts Council (NAC)

Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)