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About PhansiArt museum
Phansi goes Phezulu is an exciting campaign to digitise the vast collection of the Phansi Ubuntu Art museum
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Phansi goes Phezulu.
Phansi goes Phezulu is an exciting campaign to digitise the vast collection of the Phansi Ubuntu Art museum, which includes field collected indigenous artworks from all over southern africa and in other parts of Africa. To produce a digital archive of documents and notes on collecting and thousands of ethnographic hardcopy slides and photographs that otherwise, would not have been accessible to the general public. The idea was to make the museum accessible online for art lovers to be able to enjoy it from the comforts of their homes through a series of Online – Exhibitions and for lovers of knowledge and art to watch and listen to collectors talk about the different artefacts and the regions and people they originate from. The project was conceived during the 2020 global spread of the Covid-19 Pandemic as a response to the lockdown which restricted movement.
The project is both an artistic exercise and an edutainment tool, It was financed by the South African governments Presidential Employment Stimulus Project which sought to alleviate the financial woes faced by the south african people after the hard lockdown and also create new skills and employment for young creatives who were the most affected by the shutdown of the creative economy.
Our Amazing Team
Meet the super-cool team that put this exciting campaign together,
both young and old, sharing knowledge and imparting skills.
Val MacGarry
Similo Gobingca
Len Rosenberg
Thembi Mthembu
Vanigay Dass
Zimasa Magudu
Paul Mikula
Sbongiseni Dube
Mxolisi Hlophe
Mpho Hlophe
