Iziko Museums celebrates SA women
13 August 2008
Iziko Museums celebrates Women's Month with "Women for Children", an exhibition of art and poetry collaborations at Cape Town's Iziko South African National Gallery, and the Iziko Slave Lodge exhibition "Celebrating Women", which highlights the role of women in the struggle against apartheid.
Although initiated by women, it is specifically children, the most vulnerable of all groups, who are profiled in "Women for Children", a stirring exhibition of etchings, linocuts, digital and mixed media prints that runs until 31 August.
Each artwork is accompanied by a poem, and all works have been collated into a portfolio. Limited handmade editions of the portfolio are available for purchase.
The portfolio was published by Art for Humanity in 2006 and is a collaboration of 50 prominent women artists and poets, mostly South African, including: Bronwen Vaughan-Evans and Nise Malange, Gabisile Nkosi and Mavis Smallberg, Bronwen Findlay and Yvette Christensë, Kim Berman and Mmatshilo Motsei, Diane Victor and Michelle McGrane, Lien Botha and Karen Press, Giselle Baillie and Mgasina Majundo and Judith Mason.
The Iziko South African National Gallery is open daily from 10am to 5pm, excluding Mondays. For more information on the exhibition, contact Nadja Daehnke on 021 467 4660.
Two further exhibitions running during Women's Month - collectively titled "Celebrating Women" - are "Our Triumphs and our tears" and "Malibongwe: Let us praise the women".
Both exhibitions, on at Iziko Slave Lodge until 31 August, highlight the role women played in opposing apartheid. Inquiries: 021 460 8242.
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