Avi Sooful (Pretoria) and Patrique deGraft-Yankson (Winneba) used their stay in Germany to open students' eyes to art teaching in South Africa and Ghana. Christian Römmelt invited them to his seminar at the LMU Munich.

Some statements by the two guests from an exciting 90 minutes:

Since October 2022, a Ghanaian-German team has been working on a joint textbook for the subjects of art, history and geography (Link). The two-day workshop hosted by Prof. Dr. Gabriele Schrüfer was attended by:

Minutes of the Meeting

1. Reports and discussion of joint projects

EVC-Conference in Pretoria, Sept 19 – 23

Avi reports on the status of the planning. The fundraising process is not yet completed, the final decision is expected in mid-July. EVC will send the call...

People Beyond Borders (PBB) is running a Training of Trainers (ToT) program, initiated by Isadora Canela, Elsa Cuissard and Thais Machado. ToT is a hybrid “learn-teach-learn” co-creative program for displaced and migrant artists based in Berlin and coming from...

As part of the visit of Avi Sooful, Chair of the EVC Expert Panel, and the German textbook team, a seminar was held in Winneba. The topic "Sustainable Development Goals and the Power of Images" was addressed by the speakers from a wide range of perspectives and intensively discussed with the numerous audience members. Many lecturers, researchers und students from Winneba took part in the seminar, organized by Osuanyi Quaicoo Essel, Centre for Research in Culture and Creative Arts (CeRCCA), Winneba.

 Link to the video documentation

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This Qur’an at the Museum Fünf Kontinente is handwritten in black, red, gold or yellow on brown paper. It is bound with a leather strap between two hard paper covers at both ends and is then placed in a leather case which is closed with another leather strap wrapped around it. All 114 chapters of...

"May the ‘acquiring self’ which is shaped by society, and the ‘knowledge managing self’ function differently in the creation that I propose." (Joseph Francis Sumégné)

Development projects in Cameroonian cities by public authorities have still not been able...

It is a small but powerful image. This power is based on its pictorial conciseness, its artistic quality. My reflection on the woodcut is based on a suspicion. Obviously, its message is problematic. At the beginning of the modern era in Europe, it formulates a worldview that has had great influence...

In February 2019, a group of Bavarian art teachers started to develop a manual for teachers on intercultural learning in art classes:  Global Perspectives in Art Education - Objects from West Africa. A manual for Art Teachers in Germany. The project was coordinated by the State Institute for School Quality and Educational Research in Munich. The manual was completed in August 2022. It can be downloaded from this website in German.

Participants:

Seven4Fifteen was a transcultural project in art education that works with the concept of "lumbung values" (how proposed by documenta fifteen). It attempts to connect the works of more than 700 people which were created to express these values visually, taking up exceptional daily life references in Mexico and Germany.

Between May and July 2022, more than 700 people participated in this project, which originated at the Department of Art Education at the University of Augsburg, Germany. The transcultural project was aimed at pupils, students, and art groups in both countries....