{"id":64302,"date":"2014-07-18T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/64302\/enter-the-thami-mnyele-fine-arts-awards-and-win-big\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T09:13:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T07:13:30","slug":"enter-the-thami-mnyele-fine-arts-awards-and-win-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/18\/enter-the-thami-mnyele-fine-arts-awards-and-win-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter the Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards and win big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The metro will host the 27th prestigious National Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Ekurhuleni is calling on artists of all ages, who work in any medium, to become part of this contemporary fine arts competition.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>People can enter on August 19, 20 and 21, from 9am to 7pm, at the Coen Scholtz Recreation Centre, Mooifontein Road, Birchleigh North, Kempton Park.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite entry points are available at the Boksburg Library, on August 20, from 9am to 4pm; Springs Art Gallery, on August 19 and 20, from 9am to 7pm; Katlehong Art Centre on August 19, from 9am to 4pm.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The entry fee is R50 per artwork.<\/p>\n<p>The works of art must have been completed in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The adjudicators for the 2014 Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards competition are Pieter Swanepoel, Nontobeko Ntombela, Leanne Engelberg, Louise Kritzinger and Richman Buthelezi.<\/p>\n<p>The selected works will be exhibited at the opening function and prizegiving ceremony, at the Coen Scholtz Recreation Centre, from September 20 to October 12.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A competition of this nature serves as a platform to encourage artists to transcend limitations, reconfigure and manipulate contemporary cultural, social and political landscapes,&#8221; said Ekurhuleni&#8217;s spokesman, Themba Gadebe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a platform for artists to employ various ways to express metaphors, and their aesthetic sensibility to reflect the world we live in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The metro is privileged to associate this national fine arts competition with the acclaimed resistance artist Thami Mnyele, who gave a voice to the nation through his God-given talent.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s competition will be presented in collaboration with the Lizamore and Associates Mentorship Programme.<\/p>\n<p>Lizamore and Associates&#8217; gallery has been showing the work of new and established contemporary South African artists for over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The total prize money amounts to R 100 000.00<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The following prizes will be awarded:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>First prize: R40 000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ekurhuleni prize: R30 000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Multi and New Media Merit Award: R7 500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Painting Merit Award: R7 500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Art on Paper Merit Award: R7 500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sculpture Merit Award: R7 500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information artists can make contact with the Visual Arts Curator on 011 391-4006\/7 or 011 391-6273, or email to TshidisoMa@ekurhuleni.gov.za, or Thabo.Sekoaila@ekurhuleni.gov.za.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='2dccf6705e5b830d7fdb5f915694a678'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro calls on artists to enter fine arts competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":64345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,8515,2],"tags":[1606,1003,3995,979,969,2734,1002,1004,1448],"class_list":["post-64302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-art","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-fine-arts-competition","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-win"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["art","Ekurhuleni","fine arts competition","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","metro","municipality","Win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}