Twenty eight year old twin brothers Hasan and Husain Essop are the winners of the 2014 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art. Their exhibition at the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Art Museum, titled UNREST, will be opened by Associate Professor Andrea Hurst from the NMMU School of Language, Media and Culture on 24 July 2014. Born and raised in Cape Town, the twins have been collaborating since their graduation from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2007. They both completed a … [Read more...] about Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art sees double in 2014
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Art Museum Biennial Exhibition to feature the visual arts
This year the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum has re-launched the Eastern Cape's most prestigious art competition, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Biennial as a curated visual arts show. Art professionals from across South Africa were invited to participate in this important visual arts event by nominating artists they felt had significantly contributed to the Eastern Cape art scene. 30 artists have been selected from nominations received to participate in this celebration of … [Read more...] about Art Museum Biennial Exhibition to feature the visual arts
Journeys through space or time
One can journey through time and space, or use your mind to make journeys of the imagination, and the use of a journey as a theme suggests various interesting metaphors. These ideas are explored in the latest exhibition of selected work from the Art Museum's Permanent Collection. A centrepiece of the exhibition is Andrieta Wentzel's award-winning installation, Aspects of the dark other (2006). Viewers are invited to walk through a maze of wooden totems each representing one of the twelve … [Read more...] about Journeys through space or time
Who’s Who and What’s New?
The showcase of local talent, Who's Who and What's New? will soon be on show at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum. All members of the public as well as those who submitted works are invited to attend the opening function on Wednesday 4 December 2013 at 17:30 for 18:00. This year we are pleased to announce that Dorelle Sapere, Planning and Development Manager for the Mandela Bay Development Agency will open the exhibition. Who's Who and What's New? is a group exhibition run … [Read more...] about Who’s Who and What’s New?
Art Museum – Nelson Mandela Bay
The Nelson Mandela Art Museum is alive with local art from past and present and their dynamic curators keep the exhibitions fresh, relevant and seasonal to important dates on the South African calendar. http://youtu.be/4RN93UtnuP0 Creator: Lunaticscentral Posted to MyPE by: Alan Straton Submit your favourite Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage and Despatch videos for consideration for publication on MyPE by filling in the form below: Click here to see more PE Videos. … [Read more...] about Art Museum – Nelson Mandela Bay
You are invited to the opening of the Mfengu Beadwork Exhibition
Beadwork is an important symbol of African heritage and a beautiful form of artistic expression that connects the past with the present, the rural with the urban and the traditional and the contemporary. It will be celebrated at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum with an exhibition of traditional beadwork from the Museum's permanent collection. This exhibition focuses on the history of Mfengu beadwork and how this artistic tradition connects Mfengu people living in Peddie, a rural … [Read more...] about You are invited to the opening of the Mfengu Beadwork Exhibition
Who’s Who and What’s New?
Are you an artist 18 years or older and resident in Nelson Mandela Bay? Are you eager to showcase and promote your visual art? If you answered yes to both of these questions then you are eligible to enter the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum's annual exhibition Who's Who and What's New? This unselected community exhibition is run annually by the Art Museum to identify and publicise practicing visual artists and visual art groups in Nelson Mandela Bay. From students to both amateur and … [Read more...] about Who’s Who and What’s New?
Ethna Frankenfeld – Art Museum Biennial Award Winner 2010
Nelson Mandela Bay printmaker, Ethna Frankenfeld, was the overall winner of the third Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Biennial Exhibition and Award. The Biennial Exhibition and Award is designed to promote artistic excellence in the Eastern Cape and attracted artists from a diversity of artistic competencies and backgrounds. Submissions arrived from as far afield as Umtata and Middelburg and represented many different media including video, ceramics, painting, printmaking, sculpture, … [Read more...] about Ethna Frankenfeld – Art Museum Biennial Award Winner 2010
Friends Association of the Art Museum AGM
The Friends of the Nelson Mandela Bay Museum are a Public Benefit Organisation serving the Nelson Mandela Art Museum in a non-profit manner in order to raise funds for the purpose of enlarging the art collection. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to join The Friends of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum at 17:30 on Wednesday, 13 March for their Annual General Meeting (AGM). The meeting will be followed at 18:00 by a lecture: “Tyne & Wear - Northern City … [Read more...] about Friends Association of the Art Museum AGM
Art Museum Holiday Programme
The holiday art programme at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum will offer diverse and interesting activities to do in the holidays. The activities include; paper crafts, model making using card, recycling found objects and making a Makarapa for the 2013 Orange - AFCON Tournament. For inspiration and guidance, activities use the backdrop of current exhibitions to encourage participants to explore art making techniques. The holiday programme is as follows: PAPER CRAFT Age: 7-14 … [Read more...] about Art Museum Holiday Programme
The interplay between Chinese and Western ceramics
The Friends of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum extend an invite to residents to attend a Public Lecture by Dr Melanie Hillebrand, Director of the Art Museum, when she reflects on Chinese ceramics which have played a pivotal role in the colonisation by Europeans of southern Africa and yet most South Africans remain ignorant of the long and fascinating history behind China’s relationship with the West, and ultimately, Africa. The merchants of the Silk Road and, later, the Dutch East … [Read more...] about The interplay between Chinese and Western ceramics
Award Winning Retinal Shift Exhibit by Mikhael Subotzky for PE
The Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art 2012 has been awarded to Mikhael Subotzky. His exhibition, "Retinal Shift", will be coming on 25 July to the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum in Port Elizabeth directly from the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. Subotzky's 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist exhibition will centre on a four-channel film installation and further photographic, video and installation works. "Retinal Shift" investigates the practice and mechanics of … [Read more...] about Award Winning Retinal Shift Exhibit by Mikhael Subotzky for PE
Challenge to Paint Mandela for Nelson Mandela Day Exhibition
The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum is inviting all artists 18 years or older, living in Nelson Mandela Bay to submit an artwork of Nelson Mandela in celebration of Mandela Day on 18 July 2012. Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first president of the democratic South Africa on 10 May 1994. He is still the most positive and unifying figure today, known for his unwavering devotion to democracy, equality and learning. The objective of this exhibition is to celebrate Mandela Day and … [Read more...] about Challenge to Paint Mandela for Nelson Mandela Day Exhibition
Call for entries to In Praise of Vessels and Treasures exhibition
The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum is inviting all artists 18 years or older, living in the Eastern Cape, to submit work for two group exhibitions which will form part of the Nelson Mandela Bay Fine Art Fringe during the the 2012 National Arts Festival. The first exhibition, organized by Ceramics SA - Eastern Cape, is titled "In Praise of Vessels". This exhibition presents ceramics, sculpture and other three-dimensional creative disciplines, which aspires to look at the nuances of the … [Read more...] about Call for entries to In Praise of Vessels and Treasures exhibition
Discover the art of beading at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum
Well-known beadwork collector and dealer, Stephen Long will share his extensive knowledge and appreciation of traditional African beadwork during a public talk at the Art Museum on Wednesday 29 February 2012. His talk on traditional beadwork of the Eastern Cape Province starts at 17:30 for 18:00 and will be of particular interest to both novice and advanced beaders, jewellery and fashion designers and crafters. Although based in Cape Town, Stephen has travelled extensively throughout the … [Read more...] about Discover the art of beading at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum
