Staff

Minnette Vari
Studio Practice

Karin Basel
Art History & Theory

Ms Diane Victor
Drawing & Printmaking

Ms Sibongile Elda Majola

Email: majolaeldam@uj.ac.za
Tel: +27 (0)11 559 1117
Inter-Departmental​ Administrator
Room 132, FADA Building,
Bunting Road Campus

Mr Linda Sigwasa

Email: lsigwasa@uj.ac.za
Tel: +27 (0)11 559 1667
Technical Assistant
FADA Building,
Bunting Road Campus

The Department runs an exciting Wednesday Seminar Series every second week of each term. Among the great number of visiting experts and artists who speak at these and other Departmental and Faculty seminars and conferences, many have proven hugely important to the staffs’ and students’ thinking, research and artistic output. The following visitors have provided particularly memorable and valuable input, some over a sustained period of time:

Since 2017:

• Paul Emmanuel – Artist
• Prof. Pam Allara – Emeritus Professor, Brandeis University, Boston, MA, USA
• Prof. Robbin Ami Silverberg. Associate Professor, Prat Institute, NY and Director of Dobbin Mill and Dobbin Books, New York City, NY, USA

Booknesses Book Arts Exhibitions and Colloquium (May 2017)

International Visitors (1997 – 2016)

• Robbin​ Silverberg ​- Pratt Institute & Dobbin Mill, New York​ – Master Papermaker and Book artist
• Prof. Gail Deery – Harvard University & Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore – Printmaking, Papermaking and Book Arts
• Asao Shimura – Japan / Philippines – Master Papermaker
• Veerle Rooms​ – Karel de Grote Hogeschool, Antwerpen – Master Printmaker
• Susan Gosin – Founder & Co-Chair, Dieu Donné Papermill, New York – Master Printmaker
• Prof. Pam Allara – Brandeis University, Boston – Fulbright Scholar
• Peter Scott – School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – Printmaker
• Rhoda Rosenburg – School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – Printmaker
• Prof. Mieke Bal – Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences – Cultural theorist, critic & video artist
• Prof. Julie Ellison – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor – Professor of American Culture and English
• Dr. Mark Creekmore – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor – Policy practitioner, social welfare policy and practice
• Jane Hassinger – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor – Women’s Studies and Social Work
• Lee-Scott Mac Donald – Boston – Hollander beater maker and papermaking equipment designer
• Anne Q McKeown – Rutgers University – Printmaking and handmade paper
• Dr. Nathaniel Stern – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee – Fulbright Scholar
• Prof. Nicholas Mirzoeff – New York University – Public Lecture: The right to Look: A counterhistory of Visuality
• Prof. John Peffer​ – Ramapo College, New York​ – Fulbright Scholar & President of ACASA
• Michelle Samour – The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) – Papermaking and paper sculpture

Past Staff

Past Heads of the School / Department have served (under various titles) during different formations of the Department known as:

• ​The Department of Visual Art (DoVA) – in 2004 within Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR) and since 2005 within the University of Johannesburg (UJ)
• The Department of Fine Art – within the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA), TWR between 1997 & 2004
• The School of Art and Design (SA&D), then the Department of Art and Design (DA&D) and later, the Fine Art​ Department in the Faculty of Art and Design (FA&D) within TWR between 1976 &1996
• The College of Art, Johannesburg – within the Witwatersrand Technical College​ (WTC) between the late 1960s & 1976
• The School of Art, Johannesburg – in its independent years between 1963 &1968
• The School of Arts and Crafts – as part of the Witwatersrand Technical College​ (WTC) from 1926 to 1962.

They are:

• Prof. Karen von Veh (2017 – 2020)
• Vedant Nanackchand (2010 – 2016)
• David Paton (2004 – 2009)
• Jeremy Wafer (2002 – 2003)
• Marc Edwards (1999 – 2001)
• Rob McCallum (1996 – 1998)
• Willem Boshoff (1995 – 1996)
• Dr. Gregory Kerr (1992 – 1994)
• Willem Boshoff​ (1987 – 1991)
• Nico van Rensburg (1983 – 1986)
• Ronnie Philip (1972 – 1982: HoS)
• Claude van Lingen (1971 – 1978: HoD)
• Phil Botha (1962 – 1971)
• Prof. Robert Bain (1956 – 1961)
• Major James Gardner (1933 – 1955)
• F W Armstrong (1929 – 1932)
• Austin Winter Moore (1926 – 1928)​

Past members of the Academic Staff (since c1970) include:​