Saturday, July 7, 2007





One of the attempts to reach out to blacks after apartheid, and bring them into the the art community to teach them skills with which to earn a living was through establishing community art projects. The one in Johannesburg, called Artists Proof Studios, is easily the most sophisticated one I visited. It is on a par with some of the formal education facilities found in this country. I found the voice expressed in the prints made in community art projects was reflected by the sophistication of their surroundings and the studio. The original studio was destroyed in a fire, and as a remembrance of those that perished and the studio itself, pieces found in the old studio were assembled into a collage and permanently installed in their new studio.

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