EPSAC - Port Elizabeth

EPSAC is activey building relationships with other key players in the Arts in our Province. We believe that “a collective, especially when well managed, has power and could achieve things it is unlikely that any individual could achieve.” We are in regular discussion with bodies such as the Universities in the Province, MBDA, who are responsible for the upgrade of the historic Central area where we are situated, and are very involved in commissioning and developing public art, the NMMArt Museum and Red Location Museum, NMMU Alumni, as well as most of the private galleries, to name just a few. In this way we are creating a unified and powerful lobby to speak for artists in our province. EPSAC has several projects in place aimed at empowering the art community, and particularly emerging  

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artists. Along with our sponsors NMMU, we have an annual New Signatures Exhibition, at which the main prize is a free 2 week solo exhibition the following year. We make sure our exhibition calendar includes a selection of open exhibitions each year, aimed at providing opportunities for artists to exhibit. We are getting involved with schools, offering opportunities to show work at the gallery, and attend workshops. We are actively working on a programme of workshops designed to grow artists in their work and lifeskills.