Themes

Getting Started

All about the language of art. Finding out about abstract art.

Faces

Identity and image: how we see ourselves. Portraiture and masks.

Bodies

The expressive body. Figure-drawing, carving & construction. Society and gender.

Things

Objects & their meaning. Still lives. Found objects in art. Collecting & consuming.

Places

Art and the environment. Landscape, site specific art. Land and its meaning.

War Zones

Art and warfare, art and resistance. Narrating history; multiple viewpoints.

Inner Worlds

Art in ritual, custom & religion. Symbolism and the surreal in South Africa.

Springboards

Dancers and lovers

Land Art

Contemporary Consumption

Continuing the story

How do you want to be seen? The construction of identity

Still Life: Objects of Contemplation

Photography and posters

Museums

Landscape: Moving through space

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Artists

Siyabonga Sikosana

Keith Dietrich

Penny Siopis

Karel Nel

Titus Matiyane

Ernest Mancoba

Wayne Barker and Brett Murray

Willie Bester

Jonah Sack

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Activities

Figure drawing

Making a mural

Reading between the advertising lines

An imaginary place of your own creation

What is culture?

Your own still life

Finding colours

Keeping a weekend journal

Composition

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Videos

Imbali Visual Literacy Project – Developing Thinking

Imbali Visual Literacy Project – Express Your Creativity

Imbali Visual Literacy Project – Art Education

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Book roll-out teacher workshops

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The MTN Foundation and Imbali Partnership

The Adventuring Into Art series of resource books - produced partly in response to the lack of good art images and books in under-resourced rural and township schools, and officially launched in June 2018 - is the product of Imbali's 30 years of experience in working with teachers at schools across the country. The MTN Foundation provided the initial grant for developing this series; and much of the material that formed the backbone of these books was drawn from Imbali teacher training workshops funded by the MTN Foundation from 2001 to 2009. Many of the artworks featured and referred to in the books are from the MTN Art Collection. This longstanding and successful partnership between Imbali and the MTN Foundation now, in addition, offers this online platform in support of the valuable series of resource books.