GPS coordinates: lat: -33.975021 - lng: 18.478298

Frank Joubert Art Centre

Address:

Keurboom Rd, 7708 Newlands

Telephone:

021 683 2720

Fax:

021 683 1297

Description

The Frank Joubert Art Centre (FJAC) was established in 1943 by Captain Frank Joubert, a veteran of World War II and an Administrator of the Cape. Understanding the healing capacity of art, he invested money in the Centre as a place for war veterans and young children to be creative. From the 1960’s, Art as a matric subject under the auspices of the Cape Education Department, was offered at the FJAC.
Office Hours: Mon - Fri 9h00 to 17h00.

Keywords

Events, Art, Gallery, Workshops, Exhibitions, Learners, Adult Education, Educators, Art Centre, Cape Education Department, Training Teachers

Company description

Initially housed at Rustenburg House, the FJAC moved to its present premises in Vredenhof in 1971. Vredenhof, which is now a National Monument, was designed by John Parker in 1907 for Christiaan Ludolf Marais and this beautiful building remained in the Marais family until 1953. After being the school building and then the hostel of Groote Schuur High School, Vredenhof remained vacant and vandalised for two years. After major restoration by the Cape Education Department, this building became the new home of FJAC.
Since the establishment of Arts and Culture as one of the eight compulsory Learning Areas within the new national OBE Curriculum, the FJAC discovered that few teachers in disadvantaged schools were equipped to teach visual arts effectively as they had had little or no experience of art in their own education and training. The Ibhabhathane (Butterfly) Project was established as a pilot project of the FJAC in two disadvantaged primary schools in 1998 in an attempt to address this problem. Financially independent of the WCED, the Ibhabhathane Project has grown so successfully that in five years of its existence it has worked closely with learners and educators from at least sixteen primary schools, eight high schools in addition to training teachers from over one hundred schools across the Western Cape.

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