Certainly not as plush or as well funded as the university studios, but still vibrant places teaching art skills to blacks off the street are the Community Art Centers. After the fall of Apartheid, South Africa began building community art centers in order to teach the previously repressed blacks art skills in order to help them make a living. Egazini Art Center in Grahamstown is of this tradition. Outside the building is a stuccoed mural wall welcoming the practicing artist and visitor. Inside the various mediums from printmaking and textiles to dance art taught. All of the artists were very friendly and most anxious to share their work.
After a nearly four decade career as a railroad engineer for the BNSF railroad, I am retraining myself for a full time retirement career as an artist. The mediums that are resonating with me are printmaking and sculpture, and how to present them in new ways representing today's world.
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