Dear Friends, Rethinking Irma Stern In 2022 and 2023, the UCT Irma Stern Museum (ISM) is excited to partner with the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) on a new project which introduces the inspiration of Irma Stern's art to school learners in this province. For this initiative, all WCED Grade 11 Visual Art and Design learners were invited to visit the UCT Irma Stern Museum or view the museum's website and analyse, re-think and re-interpret the work of Irma Stern in an art or design piece of their own. The learners who came to the museum had great fun participating in practical three-hour

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 from mid-July to September 2022. Works produced during this residency will be exhibited in the UCT Irma Stern Museum from 28 September 2022.  Born a century apart from Irma Stern, Gratrix is likewise a dedicated colourist testing the limits of impasto oil painting. Many of Stern’s works are reflected in Gratrix’s pieces – compositionally, in their colouration and their subject matter

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 for learners from under-resourced schools. We are incredibly proud that the UCT Irma Stern Museum has hosted 980 school learners between February and end-May this year.  We cannot make any of this happen without your support – the support of our visitors and the support of our education programme patrons. It is our patrons' generosity that allows us to reach so many