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Unknown, Igbo, Nigeria, Mmwo Maiden Spirit Mask, Wood, pigment, textile, Acquired 1979, Standard Bank African Art Collection (Wits Art Museum)

Wits Art Museum is home to an extraordinary collection of African art, including contemporary and historical art from South Africa and art from West and Central Africa. It hosts a dynamic program of events and art exhibitions. The Museum is one of Johannesburg's premier tourist attractions, along with the Apartheid Museum and Constitution Hill. It is part of the Wits University Cultural Precinct, just three blocks from Nelson Mandela Bridge. WAM is in the hip, regenerating area of Braamfontein, which is also home to many students, interesting shops and places to eat. WAM's cafe is a fun place to meet friends and enjoy delicious food and coffee.

Wits Art Museum Robert Hodgins Print Archive

TALKABOUTS for adults and children

The WAM Classroom (for teachers)

A Lasting Impression: The Robert Hodgins Print Archive

12h00 on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Saturdays of each month

WAM is delighted to offer free TALKABOUTS on Saturdays. Adult TALKABOUTS take place on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month and will engage with different exhibitions throughout the year. There will be a tour every 3rd Saturday of the month, for primary school children and their caregivers.

UPCOMING TALKABOUTS

Sat 15 Feb at 12h00. The Art of Life and Death, a children's TALKABOUT with art teacher Robyn Penn.

Sat 22 Feb at 12h00. Landscape, Figure and Portraiture led by Ms Joni Brenner and Dr Justine Wintjes, lecturers in the Wits Art History Department.

13 March 2013 at 14h00

WAM is excited to present an introduction to Wits Art Museum, the collections and educational programs for teachers. Teachers will explore how temporary exhibitions and objects from WAM's African art collection can be used for the teaching of many different subjects. Information about tours for schools will be presented and resource packs will be supplied.

This event coincides with the exhibition Izilwane/ Dipologolo Animals and Art in Africa exhibtion.

There is no charge for this event, but teachers are requested to RSVP to Leigh Blanckenberg, Education Curator. Leigh. Blanckenberg@wits.ac.za or 011 717 1378

28 February to 7 April, 2013

The artworks on this exciting print exhibition are part of an archive of approximately 400 works that was donated to the museum by the artist in 2007. Works on exhibition date from the early 1970s to the period just before the artist's death in 2010. They range widely in theme and technique but all reveal the artist's characteristic painterly mark making and inimitable aesthetic appreciation of the human subject, flaws and all.

The exhibtion has been curated by Julia Charlton, Senior Curator at WAM is accompanied by a beautifully illustrated, full colour catalogue.