Dear Friends, Artist in Residence The UCT Irma Stern Museum (ISM) is delighted to host celebrated painter Georgina Gratrix as its second artist in residence! As part of the museum’s 50th anniversary year, Gratrix is working in a studio at the museum

The UCT Irma Stern Museum has had much to celebrate in the last months – including LGBTIQA+ Safe Space art workshops presented on most Saturdays, contemporary artist Athi-Patra Ruga's ongoing intervention and exhibition in the museum, and workshops and tours

Dear Friends, With this newsletter, we invite you to a programme of events that mark Athi-Patra Ruga's exhibition at the UCT Irma Stern Museum. Many of you will know that we have been excited to host the inspiring Athi as an

Dear Friends, The beloved UCT Irma Stern Museum turns 50! We see the anniversary as an invaluable opportunity to celebrate this cultural gem with a stimulating schedule of exhibitions, events and workshops and to place a special focus on the work, life

Dear Friends, And here we are in November, and thoughts are starting to turn to holidays and festivities. We at Team ISM are, of course, convinced that there is no better way to spend time away from work or experiences with

Dear Friends, We are excited to welcome Athi-Patra Ruga as artist-in-residence at the UCT Irma Stern Museum! Ruga has for many decades been in conversation with the art of Irma Stern – drawing on and reworking such iconic paintings as Stern's Watussi

Dear Friends, Did you know that doctors in Canada have started prescribing museum visits to their stressed patients? Read this article: Free art museum visits prescribed by Canadian doctors (leisureopportunities.co.uk). To us at the UCT Irma Stern Museum, this makes such sense