Kim Berman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Berman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Berman |
| SIGNATURE | BERMAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1537-9714 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Civic Studies
The article considers two examples of civic agency. The first is the example of Artist Proof Studio (APS), a community arts and printmaking organization based in Johannesburg, South Africa. APS aims to enable students to co-create their education for personal flourishing and broader public purposes and models itself as an “active citizen” in its institutional mission. The second example of civic agency is a community engagement project based at t…
Where Shall We Place Our Hope?”
all artwork shared courtesy of the artists and The Lockdown CollectionDuring April 2020, for the first twenty-one days of what South Africans term “the Lockdown” (elsewhere in the world referenced as “shelter in place” or quarantine), prominent South African artists were invited to create or share work that spoke to COVID-19 and its unfolding crises. A second series was organized in May 2020 as the national Lockdown was extended. “The Lockdown Co…
A Visual Conversation From South Africa
As the world copes with two parallel catastrophic events-climate change and COVID-19, this article examines how visual art students in South Africa used the pandemic period to imagine a better world, a green economic recovery, and a closer connection with nature and biodiversity. The visual conversation that this new generation of artists created provides a lens for engaging with a world in change. They generate inspirational and resourceful idea…
Crossing Worlds
The humanities and the arts are increasingly in crisis, yet have never been more needed. To illustrate challenges and possibilities in this crisis, we give examples of collaboration between north and south; and amongst scientists, artists, humanities and legal scholars. As a Canadian law professor and a South African visual arts scholar who co-founded a Johannesburg community art centre, we describe our collaborative work and its lessons. Overall…
Finding Voice
me on the journey as a trainer and inspiration to so many South African crafters in South Africa, sadly passed away on February 16, 2017, before the release of this book. She will be missed by us all
The Keiskamma Art Project
(2017). The Keiskamma Art Project: Restoring Hope and Livelihoods. de arte: Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 139-143
Students as Agents of Change
One of the essential challenges facing South Africans in building a democratic society is to move from redress through reconciliation to deeper transformational change. How one deepens surface structure by imagination and vision to ensure meaningful and enduring change is the focus of this article. The pressing need in higher education for a substantive discussion about the role of universities in nation-building and in developing citizenship in …
Imagination and Agency. Facilitating Social Change through the Visual Arts
Deepening students' understanding of democratic citizenship through arts-based approaches to experiential service learning
Inspired by models of community engagement initiated in North-American universities, the Visual Arts Department of the University of Johannesburg (UJ), together with the community-based organisation Tshulu Trust, developed an experimental service learning course aimed at evolving an approach to community engagement appropriate to the South African context. This article assesses the first iteration of this visual arts-based service learning interv…
Artist Proof Studio
Artist Proof Studio (APS), a community printmaking studio in Johannesburg, was founded twenty years ago as a response to the challenge of building democracy in postapartheid South Africa. APS has used multiple strategies to shape the ways in which artists can discover their own capacities as creative voices for change, and the roles artists can assume as agents of change and active participants in the South African democracy.This article consider…
Students as Agents of Change
One of the essential challenges facing South Africans in building a democratic society is to move from redress through reconciliation to deeper transformational change. How one deepens surface structure by imagination and vision to ensure meaningful and enduring change is the focus of this article. The pressing need in higher education for a substantive discussion about the role of universities in nation-building and in developing citizenship in …
Artist Proof Studio
Artist Proof Studio (APS), a community printmaking studio in Johannesburg, was founded twenty years ago as a response to the challenge of building democracy in postapartheid South Africa. APS has used multiple strategies to shape the ways in which artists can discover their own capacities as creative voices for change, and the roles artists can assume as agents of change and active participants in the South African democracy.This article consider…
Artist Proof Studio
Artist Proof Studio (APS), a community printmaking studio in Johannesburg, was founded twenty years ago as a response to the challenge of building democracy in postapartheid South Africa. APS has used multiple strategies to shape the ways in which artists can discover their own capacities as creative voices for change, and the roles artists can assume as agents of change and active participants in the South African democracy.This article consider…
Deepening students' understanding of democratic citizenship through arts-based approaches to experiential service learning
Inspired by models of community engagement initiated in North-American universities, the Visual Arts Department of the University of Johannesburg (UJ), together with the community-based organisation Tshulu Trust, developed an experimental service learning course aimed at evolving an approach to community engagement appropriate to the South African context. This article assesses the first iteration of this visual arts-based service learning interv…
Students as Agents of Change
One of the essential challenges facing South Africans in building a democratic society is to move from redress through reconciliation to deeper transformational change. How one deepens surface structure by imagination and vision to ensure meaningful and enduring change is the focus of this article. The pressing need in higher education for a substantive discussion about the role of universities in nation-building and in developing citizenship in …
Imagination and Agency. Facilitating Social Change through the Visual Arts
Finding Voice
me on the journey as a trainer and inspiration to so many South African crafters in South Africa, sadly passed away on February 16, 2017, before the release of this book. She will be missed by us all
The Keiskamma Art Project
(2017). The Keiskamma Art Project: Restoring Hope and Livelihoods. de arte: Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 139-143
Crossing Worlds
The humanities and the arts are increasingly in crisis, yet have never been more needed. To illustrate challenges and possibilities in this crisis, we give examples of collaboration between north and south; and amongst scientists, artists, humanities and legal scholars. As a Canadian law professor and a South African visual arts scholar who co-founded a Johannesburg community art centre, we describe our collaborative work and its lessons. Overall…
Where Shall We Place Our Hope?”
all artwork shared courtesy of the artists and The Lockdown CollectionDuring April 2020, for the first twenty-one days of what South Africans term “the Lockdown” (elsewhere in the world referenced as “shelter in place” or quarantine), prominent South African artists were invited to create or share work that spoke to COVID-19 and its unfolding crises. A second series was organized in May 2020 as the national Lockdown was extended. “The Lockdown Co…
A Visual Conversation From South Africa
As the world copes with two parallel catastrophic events-climate change and COVID-19, this article examines how visual art students in South Africa used the pandemic period to imagine a better world, a green economic recovery, and a closer connection with nature and biodiversity. The visual conversation that this new generation of artists created provides a lens for engaging with a world in change. They generate inspirational and resourceful idea…
Civic Studies
The article considers two examples of civic agency. The first is the example of Artist Proof Studio (APS), a community arts and printmaking organization based in Johannesburg, South Africa. APS aims to enable students to co-create their education for personal flourishing and broader public purposes and models itself as an “active citizen” in its institutional mission. The second example of civic agency is a community engagement project based at t…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · The arts (5 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Geography (3 works)