Artist Proof Studio students, Johannesburg HIV/AIDS wall murals

Bringing awareness to communities through art: Artist Proof Studio students have painted HIV/AIDS awareness and gender sensitivity messages on wall murals around the city of Johannesburg and Gauteng province.

In 2008, our students worked with a partner NGO to design and paint murals expressing their outrage at the xenophobic attacks which took place around South Africa in May/June 2008 and their sadness at the trauma suffered by fellow APS students from other parts of the continent. One block-long mural was painted in Yeoville and another in Joubert Park. In March 2009, the third-year students collaborated with the Art Therapy Centre in an initiative to revamp the interior of The Memorial Institute of Child Health and Development.

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