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Department of Visual Arts

Welcome to the Department of Visual Arts

The Department is the largest of its kind in South Africa and offers a multidisciplinary environment within which you can explore your creativity and stretch your intellectual boundaries.

We offer exciting and challenging under- and postgraduate degree packages and modules in Art History, Fine Arts, Information Design, Visual Communication and Visual Studies up to doctoral level.
In the years of its existence the Department has produced not only outstanding practitioners, but also influential theoreticians.

 

News

Prof Nicholas Mirzoeff is visiting the Department of Visual Arts on 27 May 2013 - 13/05/2013
From Department of Visual Arts

Professor Nicholas Mirzoeff, one of the founders of the discipline of visual culture, will be presenting a seminar on 27 May 2013 at the Department of Visual Arts.

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Information Design and UP Law Clinic collaborate - 06/05/2013
From Department of Visual Arts

Third year Information Design students in the Department of Visual Arts recently took part in an exciting collaborative project with the UP Law clinic. The students were tasked with creating a new, dynamic visual identity for the UP Law Clinic.

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Prof Lize Kriel interviews Dr Jacob Dlamini - 05/03/2013
From Department of Visual Arts

On 27 February 2013 Prof Lize Kriel from Visual Studies interviewed Dr Jacob Dlamini, author of Native Nostalgia (Jacana 2009).

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Prof Lize Kriel interviews Maren Bodenstein - 27/02/2013
From Department of Visual Arts

On 19 February Lize Kriel interviewed Maren Bodenstein at the Johannesburg launch of her novel Shooting Snakes.

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