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11 June 2021
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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Photo Courtesy of artists and the Johannes Stegmann Gallery.
Liminality is an exhibition of first-, second- and third-year student’s work in the
Department of Fine Arts at the University of the Free State (UFS). The works are from 2019 and 2020. Created during the hard lockdown of 2020, the artworks provide a glimpse of what students had to deal with and overcome during these times.
In a proposal for the exhibition, Angela de Jesus, Curator of the UFS Art Galleries, wrote: “The subtitle of the exhibition is ‘threshold, transition, transformation’ and it refers to the creative processes that students engaged with
in these adverse circumstances resulting in a wide array of artworks in both traditional and adapted mediums.”
The exhibition speaks to our shared experiences of insecurity, fragility, and discord, and to the resourcefulness and immutability of creative expression.
The virtual exhibition runs until 2 July 2021.
The exhibition is also currently available for viewing at the Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Sasol Library, UFS Bloemfontein Campus. Monday - Friday 09:00 - 16:00.
MEGAN JOHNS, Battleground, Tobacco, charcoal dust, plaster of paris and resin, 93.5 x 50 x 7.5 cm
JACOBETH SELINGA, Linda, Installation: Found bed, wool and thread, 257 x 196 x 91 cm
POLOKO MOHANOE, Prayer for rain, Gouache on Fabriano, 66 x 72.8 cm
SEBOTSE SELAMULELA, In my image (Coronavirus head), Clay, 35 x 40 x 60 cm
WILLIAM SHAER, Creator, Deconstructed chair, koat wood and Imbura wood, 100 x 75 x 45 cm
Johannes Stegmann Gallery
Interior of the Johannes Stegmann Gallery
First prestige forum for teaching and learning presented at the UFS
2008-10-31
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The Centre for Higher Education Studies and Development (CHESD) recently presented the first prestige forum for teaching and learning on the Main Campus of the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein. With “Whereto with teaching-learning at the UFS?” as theme, certain critical aspects and various innovative approaches to teaching and learning were introduced. The forum was also the platform for the annual Magda Fourie Prestige Lecture, which was presented by Prof. Magda Fourie, former Vice-Rector: Academic Planning at the UFS and currently Vice-Rector: Teaching at Stellenbosch University. It is envisaged that the forum will be presented annually. At the lecture were, from the left: dr. Saretha Brüssow, head: Teaching, Learning and Assessment at the UFS, Prof. Magda Fourie, Prof. Constanze Bauer, Department of Political Science at the UFS, and Prof. Susan Coetzee-van Rooy, guest speaker from the North-West University.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs |