Announcing an upcoming panel session: The place of collective craft in the modern museums and art galleries of the Global South This panel session is part of the conference: Mobility, Circulation, Transnationalism: Art History and the Global South South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) and Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA) University of the Witwatersrand, [...]
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Hlengiwe Dube – tin top buttons with Zulu style
image Hlengiwe Dube is a craftswoman and manager of the African Art Centre. In 2000, she was awarded the Woman of the Year award by the Department of Arts and Culture. As well as her own work, she has played a critical role in developing crafters in the area, particularly in beaded products. Dube has [...]
Magicians of the South
A paper presented to the Craft in the 21st Century conference in Edinburgh (2002) km1a It seems these days we are blessed, or cursed, by long-term incumbent governments. Yet despite their seeming inexorable hold on power, we know that eventually, as night follows day, the UK will eventually be Tory and Australia will be Labor. [...]
