JUST ART:
COMMUNITY ACTIVATION, INNOVATION & IMPACT
Social Enterprise Development Projects:
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Social Impact through Creativity is what we are committed to - and always have been. Our projects date back to before the dawn of democracy in South Africa and have continued to today - through Covid-19 and lockdown. We work with global development agencies as well as local corporates. We have a number of awards to our credit. With IMPACT4GOOD, our non-profit entity, we work within budget and make a difference - a massive difference.
JUST ART and Impact
PHRONESIS MURAL AUGUST 2021
For PHRONESIS Early Childhood Development and Primary School in Kya Sands Informal Development, we started with a mural for 7 new classrooms. Our work, as JustArt with IMPACT4GOOD has expanded into training in visual art and computer literacy and design with the full-time secondment of our intern to the school.
DICE 3D PRINT WORKSHOP APRIL 2021
For The Craft and Design Institute (CDI) in South Africa, and led by the faculty of the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom, our most recent social creative entrepreneurial programme focused on 3D Print training for creatives.
The programme was held at The Makerspace at the Tshimologong Design Precinct, in parallel with other sessions in Cape Town and Durban.
WOMANDLACHALLENGE AUGUST 2020
A drive to raise funds for vulnerable women and children in the inner-city of Johannesburg, the #womandlachallenge brought together teams of inner city youth and creatives who created a mural - on the road and visible from above - and performed regularly throughout Women's Month 2020. The project leveraged off the #jerusalemachallenge phenomenon.
Sponsorship by Hollard. Recommended for a BASA award.
MASKS4GOOD LOCKDOWN 2020 TO 2021
For our partner community-based organisation, Masks4Good, we created fun workshops for learners in schools - primary school and creche, kids gathering outdoors for events (Youth Day, Women's Month), and even at community food kitchens.
We handed out 1000s of free masks, and at the workshops, sang songs about mask safety, and handed out fun worksheets in official languages.
Recommended for a BASA Award.
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INNERCITY AND TOWNSHIP CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS 2019 and 2020
As part of an integrated route to market for creative social entrepreneurs, Kathy established MUSEUMSTORE.AFRICA at the newly Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria. Integral to the offering is ongoing work with inner-city and township-based learners, and adults, with a focus on transferring functional skills and the production of craft, art and aesthetic items for sale in MuseumStore.Africa outlets - online and in situ.
With Covid-19, workshops were expanded to online, and in-situ workshops - for children and adults - in Soweto, Tshwane, Ekurhuleni and Inner city Johannesburg and included focus on protective wear - as www.masks4good.com - food distribution and community skills transfer and upliftment.
BRITISH COUNCIL DICE SOCIAL CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURIAL ACCELERATOR 2019
A year-long initiative through 2019, for 120 creative social entrepreneurs, established and emerging - 60 from Langa township in Cape Town, and 60 from across Gauteng.
The team has retained contact, providing a rigorous but informal peer-learning platform well into 2022
JUST ART takes us back to our roots:
Social Justice, Human Rights and creativity.
The difference today is access to funding and sponsorship has broadened (to an extent) in that private sector organisations are encouraged to invest in community through tax BBBEE and enterprise development incentives.
Contact us to see what JUST ART with IMPACT4GOOD, our non-profit entity, can do to make a difference for your corporate or your philanthropic project.
In the Dark Days....
TOWNSHIP MURAL PROJECT 1995
One of the first in a democratic South Africa in 1995, creating a precedent for commissioning local talent in creating environmental design - in this case, murals, for Yo-TV. Some murals still exist two decades later.
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WEEKLY MAIL FILM FESTIVAL 1986 onwards
During the Apartheid era, in the midst of the State of Emergency, communication between South Africans both inside and outside the country was shut down, The Weekly Mail Film Festival provided an internal mirror to our society, reflecting realities in townships, suburbs, exile - for an elite few in Johannesburg, Soweto, Alex township. Our founder, Kathy was co-founder / curator.
Each year, a different acclaimed artist designed the poster for the festival: William Kentridge; Penny Siopis and Steven Cohen were commissioned.