An exciting new exhibit by one of Port Elizabeth's top artists goes on show at artEC from 18 April. The latest work of 37-year-old Cedric Vanderlinden will be on display at 36 Bird Street from 18 April to 29 April 2011, with the opening being held on Sunday 17 April. His work will be displayed alongside works by well known fellow artist, Grant Bayman. Vanderlinden's art, which he has been honing for over sixteen years, is emotionally charged, drawing substantially from his life experiences … [Read more...] about Where the Ocean Ends
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You Can Enter the Debate on Public Art
Members of the public will be given the opportunity to enter the debate when top academics and cultural movers and shakers present their views on current issues relating to public art. An Art Forum which will take place at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum from 9:00 to 16h30 on 11 April 2001 and will provide a platform for discussion and debate on local, national and international public art. Chairing the Forum will be Dr Melanie Hillebrand, Art Museum Director. Starting the day's … [Read more...] about You Can Enter the Debate on Public Art
A Spiritual State of Mind Explored Through Creative Expression
Art lovers and collectors should diarise a one-man show at the EPSAC gallery, opening on Tuesday 5 April at 5:30. The artist-painter and sometime sculptor is Deon Lemmer who has retired from teaching to indulge his passion for making art . The opening address will b e delivered by Deon's brother, Prof André Lemmer. André has been close enough to Deon, the artist, to be able to guide viewers into his brother's art. Deon's new works differ from last year's exhibition 'which mainly featured … [Read more...] about A Spiritual State of Mind Explored Through Creative Expression
Colourful Hungarian Psychiatrist to Exhibit at artEC
Dr. Vaczi can be described as a colourful multi-faceted person. He perceives life, music, food, painting and sculptor though th eyes of an artist. It is through this process that he discovered to express and experiment with the artist within himself. Born in Hungary, Dr. Peter Vaczi has been living and working in South Africa as an psychiatrist since 1990. He comes from a creative family amongst which is his grandfather, also a psychiatrist, who was a published author and who specialized in … [Read more...] about Colourful Hungarian Psychiatrist to Exhibit at artEC
The Arts in 5 Minute Sound Bites
The Friends of the Art Museum are hosting this year's first Creative Collective of 2011 at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum from 18:30 to 20:00 on Thursday 17 March. Various artists will entertain you in short 5 minute sensational slots with music, theatre and visual arts. The lineup includes informative and exciting presentations by Fly Magazine, the Arts Journey and other up and coming Nelson Mandela Bay city projects. Be entertained by the poetry of Poetic Soul and Johnny … [Read more...] about The Arts in 5 Minute Sound Bites
Public Art Timeline Tour
The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum has been running a public art exhibition taking visitors on "a journey from the colonial past into the present". The exhibition, involving a "tour" of Nelson Mandela Bay, started on 12 February and is scheduled to run until 17 April 2011. The exhibition features a timeline giving locations and brief descriptions of notable public art in the Bay: monuments, memorials and commissions, from the Donkin Pyramid, built in 1820, to the Bay's newest and … [Read more...] about Public Art Timeline Tour
Free Art Workshops for Teachers
Something special for Intermediate Phase Teachers is being offered by Cape Town’s Ibhabhathane Project. All your art for the new CAPS (and some other ideas too), enough art lessons for a full year plus resource materials and other useful data. Every teacher in Gr 4 to Gr 6 needs to attend this workshop. No previous experience is necessary. This INSET course has the support of the Western Cape Education Department and the Ministry of Basic Education. The workshop will be spread over two … [Read more...] about Free Art Workshops for Teachers
Passionate Art Interns
Two young, vibrant, passionate about art, interns, Bongani Njalo and Bamanye Ngxale, both post graduate students from the School of Music and Art and Drama at NMMU, were recently appointed by the MBDA and artEC to assist with various community art projects such as the 200 artists project, the Arts Journey, Route 67 and other artEC and MBDA related projects. They will be supporting the roll out of the Inner City Art Journey from February to July 2011. Funding from the National Lottery … [Read more...] about Passionate Art Interns
Art Forum and Art Tours
The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum will hold an Art Forum on Public Art on Monday 11 April 2011 from 8:30 to 14:30. Topics to be presented for discussion and debate will include shared heritage, public art and politics and a vision for the city. Two tours of public art in the city will take place on 4 and 16 April 2011. The first tour will concentrate on memorials and monuments while the second will cover public art in the city including colonial history, modern art and the apartheid … [Read more...] about Art Forum and Art Tours
Bev De Lange’s Continuous Thread
A solo exhibition of works by the NMMU Masters Graduate artist, Bev de lange will open at 17h30 on Tuesday 1 March 2011 at the artEC gallery in Bird Street Central, Port Elizabeth. It will run until 1 pm on Friday the 11 March 2011. The guest speaker at the opening will be Professor Cleonie Cull from the department of Music, Art and Design at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. According to the artist the body of work presented in this exhibition is an attempt to extend the … [Read more...] about Bev De Lange’s Continuous Thread
Your Art Could Hang on these Venerable Walls
Ever wanted to exhibit at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum? Now's your chance. The NMM Art Museum is inviting all artists 18 years or older, living in the Nelson Mandela Bay to submit work for the 2011 Who's who and what's new? The Who's who and what's new? is designed to promote creativity in Nelson Mandela Bay. Old and young, professional and first time artists are invited to submit work. Pick up an entry form and be part of the Bay's brightest and most diverse group … [Read more...] about Your Art Could Hang on these Venerable Walls
EPSAC now artEC – And I thought that Art was just Art!
In keeping with the changing “Face of Art’ in Port Elizabeth, EPSAC as we know it has been “re-branded” and will from now onwards be referred to as artEC (Art East Cape). The full name being artEC – The EPSAC Community Art Centre. Thanks to funding received by EPSAC, from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF), briefs could be sent out for proposals and the commissioning of the re-branding and redesigning of the new logo could be done by a local professional Graphic design … [Read more...] about EPSAC now artEC – And I thought that Art was just Art!
Bargain Art
The artEC, Same Size, Same Price, No Signature Exhibition, started by well known Gallerist and artist Tossie Theron, at her Cuyler Street Gallery and now held at artEC, is a not to be missed annual event, on the Eastern Cape art's calendar. This year the funding, received from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, will assist with the opening function and marketing of the event. ArtEC (EPSAC) received R749,00 from NLDTF in July 2010, for various projects. The exhibition, held at the … [Read more...] about Bargain Art
Cut to the Bone
Port Elizabeth resident and veteran teacher, Dorien du Toit is holding an exhibition, 'Cut to the Bone', featuring sculptures on an African theme: in wood, iron, bone and stone at the EPSAC Gallery from the 26th January to the 3rd February 2011. Dorien was born in Johannesburg in 1949 and schooled mainly in the Transvaal. Dorien is a renowned teacher of English and creativity for 27 years to the Xhosa, Coloured and Chinese communities in the Eastern Cape. This songwriter, musician, … [Read more...] about Cut to the Bone
I Have no Career
Missing The Boat, an exhibition by Nicholas P. Hauser opens Tuesday 1 February and runs until 11 February 2011 at the EPSAC Gallery, 36 Bird street, Central, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. "Hauser defiantly maintains that he has no career." Missing the Boat is about the indispensable qualities of failure as an engine for productivity and discovery. Physically, the work on show comprises of selected drawings, paintings, ceramics and digital collages produced between 1978 and 2011. The … [Read more...] about I Have no Career
