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Ayesha Price

Ayesha Price
b. Cape Town, 1975
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Curriculum Vitae
Art Education
1996: Diploma in Education - Practical Specialisation in Visual Arts Hewatt College of Education (in association with UCT).
Employment

2010: Principal, Zonnebloem Children's Art Centre, Cape Town.

2009-2010: Educator, Iziko South African National Gallery.

2008-2009: Visual Arts Education Officer, ISANG.

1998-2006: Visual Arts Educator, Zonnebloem Children's Art Centre.

2000: Fundraiser, South African National Zakaah Fund. 

1997: Visual Arts Educator Grades 4-7, Battswood Art Centre.

workshops/ community projects (present/ongoing)

2005-present: District Six community workshops, Lydia Williams Centre, Cape Town.

2004-present: Member of art@school.education.com (voluntary organisation) with Cape Town artists to engage youth and communities through visual arts.


1997-present: Assisting schools (Zonnebloem Girls Primary, St Agnes Primary, Wynberg Senior Secondary, Al-Wafaa Preschool, Walmer Primary) with banners, signs, stage props and décor, costumes, posters, exhibitions. 

workshops/ community projects (previous)

2008-2010: Visual Arts Educator and Exhibition Designer for Peacejam Foundation Youth Programmes (Unesco funded project)at the District Six Museum and ISANG Annexe.

2008-2009: Visual Arts Educator and Exhibition Coordinator for Peripheral Vision, a cultural youth exchange programme between District Six Museum and Swedish Arts and Culture Centres: Lava, Zenit, BotkyrkaKunstall.

2007-2008: Rivers of the World International Art Project (worked with learners to produce artworks about the Liesbeeck River). 

2007: Photographic workshop for District 6 youth with artists Hussein and Hassan Essop for the Goodman Gallery Cape at the Lydia Williams Centre.

2002: Visual Arts Educator, Isivivane Solwazi Art and Culture programme, Robben Island Museum Spring School.


1999: Mural painting facilitator, Words and Vision, Molo Songololo Productions.

Exhibitions (group)
2007: africa south, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
 
2006: Artscape, Cape Town (for the Cape Town Festival). Botaki 4, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Pinelands, Cape Town.
 
2005: Botaki 3: OMAM, Cape Town. The Department of Economic Development and Tourism, Art in Business.
 
2004: Gender & Visuality Exhibition, UWC (History Dept). Battswood Gallery exhibition.
 
1999: DisNag, South African Cultural History Museum, Cape Town.
Collections
Private, South Africa.
Commissions
2005: Dept of Economic Development and Trade, Western Cape government.
 
1999: South African National Zakkaah fund. Also private.
Other

2006: Visual Art Adjudicator, Fairest Cape Association. 

2005/6: Contributor (text and photographs), Iziko EPP Publication Picasso and Africa.

2004: Reviewing & consulting arts & culture handbook for learners & Educators, Oxford University Press.


2003: Visual Art Adjudicator, Lovelife. Textile Workshop, MAPPP-SETA.

1997-2003: As member of the Arts Junction (youth arts productions) planned art workshops, exhibitions, production of posters, pamphlets, set & costume design.  

2000: Book illustrations for IDASA (Project Literacy). Book titles: Shine Where You Are; Lulama’s Blanket.

1999: Member of the Arts Forum, based at Battswood Art Centre.

Current
Art educator. Studying Visual Art at UNISA and working with miniature sculptures and animations.
Last Updated: 06 August 2010
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