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🎉What a year it's been! 🧡

FADA 2025, you've shown us what creativity, talent and community really mean. ✨🥹
Here's to the memories we've made and the masterpieces yet to come! 🖌️

See you again during our exhibition ✨🧡

#uj20 #ujfada #fada #creativityunleashed #artanddesign #fadauj #fadaendyear #fadarecap #fada2025 #2025recap #2025 by @ujdova

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Join us tomorrow evening at the Department of Visual Arts in @ujfada for the Ba Visual Arts grad showcase👏

Lots of great work to be seen🔥🫡🧡

be sure to bring along identification for campus access⭐️ by @ujdova

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How can design help us live responsibly with endangered forms of life? In this talk, Prof. Eben Kirksey explores multispecies design, projects that imagine futures where vulnerable lifeforms can thrive and new ecological possibilities emerge.

Prof. Eben Kirksey is an award-winning author and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. His books ,Freedom in Entangled Worlds, Emergent Ecologies, and The Mutant Project, have shaped global conversations about nature, culture, and multispecies ethnography.

Keisha Jacobs is a researcher and writer in the visual arts sector, focusing on the intersections of visual culture and social justice. She’s the academic researcher for Bioart + Design Africa (BA+DA) at UJ’s VIAD Research Centre and a recipient of multiple prestigious scholarships.

Don’t miss this inspiring conversation!
Register via the link in bio! 🔗

#designforlife #multispieciesdesign #empathyindesign #ecologicaldesign #humancentreddesign #ebenkirksey #biodiversity by @ujdova

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Empathy lies at the heart of human-centred design, but what happens when we decentre the human?

Join us for a talk by Prof Eben Kirksey, award-winning author and Professor of Anthropology at the university of Oxford, as he explores how decentred multispecies design can create spaces that support not just people, but animals, plants, fungi and microbes as well.

In this inspiring talk, Prof Kirksey will share examples of projects that foster ethical encounters with endangered lifeforms, helping us imagine futures of care, coexistence and ecological possibility.

Register for the webinar through the link in bio!🔗

#designforlife #multispieciesdesign #empathyindesign #ecologicaldesign #humancentreddesign #ebenkirksey #biodiversity by @ujdova

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To Build Elsewhere - Honours Exhibition at the FADA Gallery

🗓️When? 12 November 17:30 for 18:00
🏢 Where? FADA Gallery, UJ Bunting Road Campus
🍷🍷🍷Wine? For all

Don't miss out! Be there 💯

To Build Elsewhere is a bold exploration into the generative power of redefinition. The exhibition presents a unified body of work from the Visual art Honours students; that rejects fixed boundaries, instead viewing existence—whether personal, social, or environmental—as a perpetual act of construction and imaginative re-mapping. It is an acknowledgment that to move forward, one must first challenge the ground they stand on.

The artists collectively engage in a profound form of conceptual cartography. Their practice navigates the complex conditions of visibility and omission in systemic spaces, using principles of framing and reflection to critique what is preserved, overlooked, or deliberately withheld from public view. This critical eye extends to the architecture of memory, where personal and ancestral histories are re-imagined as provisional and playful reconstructions, rather than static archives.

Crucially, the exhibition confronts the social and ethical frameworks that necessitate building "elsewhere." The works directly address the objectification and fragmentation of the body, particularly when forced into confining societal expectations and stereotypes. This critique is balanced by a powerful impulse toward reclamation, as the artists interrogate ancestral presences and seek to re-establish identity outside restrictive roles.

Overall, To Build Elsewhere is a vision for a future founded on transformative change. The collection embraces the idea that absence, erosion, and structural shifts are not losses, but generative forces that facilitiate healing and new creation. taken in UJ FADA by @ujdova

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It's that time of the year again!🧡
The FADA Student Exhibition opens on Thursday, 27 November at 17:00!✨

Join us to explore the incredible creative work of our talented students across all departments. This one will be epic, trust us. 🙂‍↕️ Don't miss out on the chance to experience this inspiring showcase firsthand. Bring your friends and family. 🎨

📌 Where:
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, UJ Bunting Road Campus.

📅 When:
27 November 2025 @17:00

Come celebrate 20 years of UJ with us! 🧡

#uj #uj20 #ujfada #fada #creativityunleashed #artanddesign #fadauj #fadaexhibition #fada2025 by @ujdova

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2025 Master’s Exhibitions | FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg

This October, the FADA Gallery proudly presents two solo Master’s exhibitions by University of Johannesburg FADA Master’s students in the Department of Visual Art, Leonardo Sitoe and Lonwabo Mzamo. Both artists are recipients of a grantholder-linked NRF scholarship under the SARChI Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture, reflecting the depth of research-driven practice emerging from UJ.

Ko Lorha (To Dream) — Solo exhibition by Leonardo Sitoe

Sitoe reflects on dreaming as both metaphor and method. A realm where memory, history, and the surreal dimensions of the diasporic experience converge. Working primarily with wood, he draws on Afro-Surrealism to transform material memory into acts of reclamation, envisioning futures shaped by renewal and resistance.

UMCIMBI (Social Cultural Gathering) — Solo exhibition by Lonwabo Mzamo

Mzamo invites audiences into a space of reflection on masculinity, ritual, and identity within isiXhosa cultural traditions. Through painting, mixed media, and installation, he reimagines cultural knowledge systems and masculinity as fluid, evolving, and rooted in shared experience.

Exhibition Dates: 25 October – 3 November 2025
Opening Reception: 25 October 2025 | 11:00 AM
Venue: FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg

Together, Ko Lorha (To Dream) and UMCIMBI (Social Cultural Gathering) invite us to dream, reflect, and reimagine — revealing how art can hold memory, ritual, and transformation in dialogue.

#KoLorha #umcimbi #LeonardoSitoe #LonwaboMzamo #UJMastersExhibition #visualarts #sarchi #fadagallery #fadauj #ujdova #JohannesburgArtScene #artexhibition2025 #nrf #UJResearchExcellence taken in FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg by @ujdova

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Thats it from the student-led seminar committee for 2025!!🌱👏🪴🙋🏽‍♂️
Last week we had a closing seminar with the Honors students and their talk about their experience in Germany and their residency report 🇩🇪
We would like to extend gratitude and love to all the people who joined us this year. From fellow students and the seminar committee, we would like to wish everyone goodluck on their upcoming year end crits and exhibitions. Thank you for riding along with us for our 2025 student-led seminars👏🙏🏼🪴❤️

See you guys next year!!!🙋🏽‍♂️🌱 taken in FADA UJ Bunting Road Campus by @ujdova

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For the next edition of the student-led seminars, we have our very own Visual Arts Honors students, who will be discussing their experience of being apart of an international residency and their art practices

Join us this Wednesday @13:00, in the Visual Arts department Printmaking studios. See you there 🌱🙋🏽‍♂️ by @ujdova

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A recap of our latest seminar talk with guest speaker Naadira Patel 🌱🪴 taken in FADA UJ Bunting Road Campus by @ujdova

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WE ARE BACK! like we never left, for the last quarter of the school calendar-year this Wednesday, with our student-led seminars 🌱

This week we will be joined by curator and designer Naadira Patel as they delve into how their practice pursues a critique of technologies that shape our experiences and exploring the effects of the emerging forms of surveillance capitalism.

Join us this Wednesday @13:00, in the Visual arts department Printmaking studio. See you guys there!🪴 taken in FADA UJ Bunting Road Campus by @ujdova

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📢 FADA MARKET DAY – 03 OCTOBER 2025

We’re excited to announce that FADA Market Day will be taking place on Friday, 03 October 2025!

🕚 Vendor setup: 11:00
🛍️ Market hours: 12:00 – 14:00

✨ Open to FADA students only.

🚫 Please note: No alcohol, cannabis, or any items/services violating the UJ Code of Conduct will be permitted.

📌 Tables & chairs will be provided.
🎨 Décor & display items = your responsibility.
⚡ Need electricity? Bring your own extension cords/adaptors (none will be supplied).
💳 Vendors handle their own cash flow, float, and card machines.

📝 Applications close: Tuesday, 23 September.
Successful applicants will be contacted and added to a WhatsApp group for event updates.

👉 Apply now and don’t miss out!
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=GHy_2CVXnkuxGBM4j1LkTgfF52invUBOkJOzdMhzgz5UNjVRU0NTV0hLTFZEREhOU0JKMEtUUU1aUC4u by @ujdova

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