Wits University is home to an active, exciting, and internationally recognised History of Art department that started in 1974. With a focus on multimodal teaching, learning, and research, Wits History of Art is committed to deepening, extending, and complicating traditional understandings of the discipline, engaging the conditions of our postcoloniality, and contesting the politics of the visual.
Wits History of Art is a leading teaching and research department in African art, photography, and curatorial practice. A postgraduate training through Wits History of Art will prepare you for careers in advertising, arts journalism, curating, museums, archives, picture research, filmmaking, galleries and auction houses, teaching, art-making, heritage, academia, cultural tourism, government and non-governmental arts sectors.
A post-graduate training through Wits History of Art will prepare you for careers in advertising, arts journalism, curating, museums, archives, picture research, filmmaking, galleries and auction houses, teaching, art-making, heritage, academia, cultural tourism, government and non-governmental arts sectors.
History of Art is one of the cornerstones of an arts degree, complementing disciplines such as Anthropology, English, Archaeology, Philosophy, and Sociology as well as professional degrees including Fine Art, Dramatic Art, Digital Arts, and Film and Television.
