Learning through art: The Museum as classroom aims to serve as a platform for school learners, educators and art enthusiasts to appreciate and absorb artworks and important genres discussed in the Visual Arts Curriculum. Artworks were sourced from William Humphreys Art Gallery, ArtbankSA Contemporary Collection and Oliewenhuis Art Museum’s Permanent Collection, and artworks that are discussed in the textbooks.
This photographic exhibition is curated from Oliewenhuis Art Museum and ArtbankSA’s collections. The exhibition features historical and contemporary moments as seen through the lens of some of South Africa’s most esteemed photographers. The artworks for this exhibition were selected specifically to commemorate a pivotal moment in South Africa’s history: the first non-racial democratic elections of 1994.
An exhibition curated from the Oliewenhuis Art Museum’s Permanent Collection and ArtbankSA’s collection curated by Yolanda de Kock. The exhibition opened on 25 November 2021 in the Main Building, Oliewenhuis Art Museum.
In South Africa the month of August is synonymous with honoring women: their courage, strength and endurance. Celebrated on the 9th of August, the day reminds us of the courageous march in 1956 by approximately 20 000 women who protested against legislation aimed at tightening the apartheid government’s control over the movement of black women in urban areas.
Oliewenhuis Art Museum and Art Bank South Africa joined forces in participating in the powerful #5WomenArtists campaign powered by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York. Both Oliewenhuis Art Museum and Art Bank South Africa are agencies of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture and Departments of the National Museum in Bloemfontein, South Africa. We proudly present outstanding female artists’ work from our collections to participate in this extraordinary campaign.