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Ernestine White

Ernestine White
b. Cape Town, 1976
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Curriculum Vitae

Art Education
2007: Project Management Certificate,Cape Peninsula University
of Technology, Cape Town.
 
2004: Master of Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art,
University of Cape Town.
 
2000-2001: Master Printer Certificate, Tamarind Institute,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
 
1999-2000: Professional Printer Program,Tamarind Institute,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
 
1994- 99: Bachelors in Fine Art, School of Art and Design,
Purchase College, NY.
Exhibitions
2007: Africa South, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa; 
ReCenter, Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha,Cape Town; Glamouraid, Kizo Art Gallery, Kwa Zulu Natal & Amarula Room, Sandton City, Johannesburg; Women for Children’s Rights, The Museum Room, Parliament of South Africa, Cape Town.
 
2006: Cape Town: Contemporary Prints, Polvo, Chicago, USA;
[Artist/Poet Collaboration] Women for Children’s Rights – Precious Cargo, Art for Humanity, Tatham Gallery, Pietermaritzburg & Slave Lodge, Cape Town; Women for Children’s Rights, Tatham Gallery, Pietermaritzbrg; Print
2006, Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town & Art on Paper, Johannesburg. 
 
2005: Krisp. Art B Gallery, Bellville, Cape Town; [Collaboration] Artists thinking in beads, Coeo Art Collaborative, Cape Town; Botaki Exhibition 3, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town; Botaki exhibition 2, Old Mutual asset Managers, Cape Town.
 
2004: Woolworths, Canal Walk, Cape Town; Art Cool-LG Electronics, Cape Town; Roodebloom Wine Launch, Johannesburg.
 
2003: Surface=Print, AVA, Cape Town; Picnic, Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town; Voicing the Abstract, Community Arts Project, Cape Town.
 
2002: Tamarind impressions, Allan Greene Gallery, LBQ, New Mexico, USA.
Work experience
2007- present: Senior Projects Coordinator: Parliamentary
Millennium Programme, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.
 
2003- 2006: Exhibitions  Coordinator-Curator: Parliamentary
Millennium Project, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.
 
2005: Part-time Lecturer: Intermediate Lithography, Michaelis
School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
 
2004: Collections Manager: South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
 
2002-2003: Tours-Coordinator: Parliamentary Millennium Project,
 Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.
 
2003: Press Assistant:Impact International Print Conference, Cape Town.
 
2002: Visual Arts Coordinator/Performer: Clanwilliam: A story is
like the wind, University of Cape Town.
 
2000- 01: Tamarind Master Printer: Tamarind Institute, ALBQ, New Mexico, USA.
 
1999- 2000: Tamarind Professional Printer Training Program:
ALBQ, New Mexico.
1999: Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Woodcut and
Lithography, Purchase College, New York.

1998-99: Internship: The Printmaking Workshop, Manhattan, NY.
Exhibitions curated
2007: Women For Children, Museum Room, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town.

2006:
Perspectives and the Mapping of Africa, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa; 
Voices of Women, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town.
 
2005: Every View Counts, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa; Out Of Africa, Gauteng Legislature, Johannesburg; Perspectives on and of Africa, (all nine provinces), South Africa; Phenomenal Women, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa & Northern Cape Legislature, Kimberley; All Shall Have Equal Rights, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.
 
2004: Prints of Perspective, Blue Shed, Waterfront, Cape Town; Every View Counts, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa & Artscape, Cape Town; 10 Years of a Democratic Parliament, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.
 
2003: History of Cartography in Africa, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa. 
Collections
The Printmaking Workshop, Manhattan, New York.
Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
Centre for African Studies, UCT.
Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town.
Published artworks
2006: Chimurenga vol. 7 [magazine]
 
2005: Botaki exhibition 3; Botaki exhibition 2 [both catalogues, exhibitions curated by Mario Pissarra]
 
2004: 10 years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa [edited by Sophie Perryer].
 
2003: Picnic [catalogue, exhibition curated by Andrew Lamprecht]
 
2001: Technical Talk. Tamarind Institute [website http://www.edu/`tamarind/]; Art on Paper. NY (Jan- Feb; Mar– Apr; and Nov- Dec); Magazine of the Arts (MOA), Purchase College, NY; American Red Cross, Centennial celebration, NY.
Commissions
2006: Artists for Humanity [billboard, Langa, Cape Town]; Coeo Art Collective.

2005: Bell Roberts Gallery [print].

2004: LG Electronics; & Coeo art Collective.

2003: KWV.
Grants & scholarships
2002– 04: Katrine Harries Memorial Bursary and McIver Scholarship, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
 
2002: National Research Foundation Grant. University of Cape Town.
Current
Works as a Senior Projects Coordinator for the Parliament of the RSA; lives in Table View, Cape Town.

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