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October 2022
25Oct2022

TUT confers honorary doctorates on foremost South Africans

The Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) conferred honorary doctorate degrees on four foremost South Africans as part of its Spring graduation ceremonies. At graduation ceremonies hosted on the Pretoria Campus on Monday, October 24,...
20Oct2022

Grant enables lecturer to further explore 3D printing in jewellery

With the advent of 3D printing, the age-old craft of manufacturing jewellery from precious metal has undergone a significant transformation. Hesti Wade, a part-time lecturer and postgraduate student at the Department of Design Studies (Jewellery Design and...
19Oct2022

Student voices help shape Interior Design profession

Two TUT Interior Design students have been elected to the Student Advisory Committee of the prestigious African Institute of the Interior Design Professions (IID). By connecting students to a nationwide community of other students and interior...
12Oct2022

TUT celebrates its third Absa L’Atelier winner

A three-month-long residency in Paris, France awaits Malebogo Naticia Molokoane (32), a Master’s degree student and part-time lecturer at the Department of Fine and Studio Arts, after being announced winner of the 2022 Absa L’Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award in...
September 2022
23Sep2022

Lecturer bags Mzantsi Jazz Award

Dr Roland Moses, a senior lecturer at the Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of Performing Arts, bagged the Best Jazz Song (African Sun) category during the 6th Mzantsi Jazz Awards hosted at the Soweto Theatre. This category was contested by public vote.
16Sep2022

Famed play staged in SA for the first time

It will be a South African first when the Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of Performing Arts stages August Wilson’s famed African American play, Two Trains Running. Directed by senior lecturer, Dr Karina Lemmer, with Prof Owen...
08Sep2022

Arts Festival will showcase art of making knowledge work

The Tshwane University of Technology’s Faculty of Arts and Design will host its first, post-COVID-19, in-person Arts Festival from 26 – 29 September 2022, making it the fourth since 2018, on the TUT Arts Campus.
August 2022
29Aug2022

Artists fired up for glass exhibition

Fired Up! - Celebrating Southern African Glass Art will bring you glass in a myriad of creative interpretations at the Pretoria Art Museum from 3 September till 30 October 2022. Several staff and alumni from the Faculty of Arts and Design will partake in the exhibition, which coincides with the United Nations International Year of Glass, focusing on the...
26Aug2022

TUT artists add their names to premier art competition

Being one of the 106 finalists in this year's Sasol New Signatures Art Competition is no small accomplishment, considering the record number of 1 065 entries. Fine and Studio Arts lecturer, Mellaney Roberts, and student, Kutlwano Monyai, are among this select group of artists with their thought-provoking...
16Aug2022

Students show their mettle at National Arts Festival

A crucial part of any live performance happens behind the scenes, both before a production is mounted and during its run. Since 2012, students from the Department of Performing Arts have ensured the smooth-running of this aspect of productions staged at the National Arts Festival (NAF). This year was no excepti...
16Aug2022

Membership bolsters Faculty’s standing

The international standing of the Faculty of Arts and Design at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) has received a significant boost following it obtaining membership of the Cumulus association. This association is a premier global network that brings together art and design educational institutions of...
05Aug2022

Live performance promises to be a sensory experience

The Theatre Arts and Performance senior student cast from the Department of Performing Arts (DPA) have created a live art performance with Prof Janine Lewis, titled [left] in the cracks, that will be performed at the Rostrum Theatre in September. The collaboration includes professional artist Marinda du Toit, Dance...
04Aug2022

Interior Design puts theory into practice

Interior Design students got their hands dirty this year as part of an initiative by the Department to put construction theory into practice, albeit accompanied by blood, sweat and tears.
July 2022
28Jul2022

First TUT Gender Desk established on Arts Campus

Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) is on the rise in South Africa, yet it is rarely discussed. It is also no secret that Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is a pandemic in higher education, and the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) is regrettably not an exception. Due to this, the Department of Higher Education...
25Jul2022

Production celebrates autobiographical memories and stories

The Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) has collaborated with the University of Pretoria (UP) to stage Memoryscapes, a deeply personal celebration of the performers’ autobiographical memories and...
22Jul2022

TUT and community take hands to clean up city

Landscape Services at the Arts Campus have joined forces with property management company, City Property and Arcadia Inner City Development, in a project to make the city safer and clean up the open area next to Nelson Mandela Drive, as part of their...
19Jul2022

Prof part of international team exploring artistic research

Prof Chatradari Devroop, Research Professor, Faculty of Arts and Design, has been invited to be part of a select international research team exploring artistic research. Artistic research is a new paradigm being used in arts faculties globally whose focus...
18Jul2022

Lecturer’s PhD focuses on improving teaching and learning

Finding creative ways to improve teaching and learning was the inspiration for her PhD topic, says Dr Leandi Steyn Delport. The dynamic lecturer at the Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts and Design,...
07Jul2022

Partnership with music legend broadens students’ perspective

The teaching and learning of students at the Faculty of Arts and Design started on a high note this year since music legend Dr Vusi Mahlasela, known as ‘The Voice,’ partnered with the Faculty to present master classes to students of the Department of Performing...
June 2022
09Jun2022

Towards future-ready graduates

The teaching and learning of students studying at the Department of Interior Design got a major boost this week with the launch of their new Tech Lab – another first for the Faculty of Arts and Design.
08Jun2022

Family of TV and film legend donates equipment to TUT

A legend in the South African TV and Film industry, Richard Nosworthy, passed away in April this year. Nosworthy had a passion for teaching and mentoring the youth, seen with his involvement in teaching workshops to screenwriters (called ‘the Scribe Writer’s...
07Jun2022

TUT launches its first alumni chapter

Alumni of the Faculty of Arts and Design, including prominent figures in the South African entertainment industry, returned to their alma mater on Friday, 3 June for the launch of an alumni chapter aimed at re-engaging this important University constituency. Speakers at the event stressed that the...
07Jun2022

Collaboration turns hurt into healing

Collaboration in the arts does not only harness the experiences and skills of individual participants to give meaning and creative expression to what they deem important. Often, it also leads to ground-breaking new work, as is the outcome of such a partnership between artist Marinda du Toit and the Department of...
May 2022
31May2022

TUT stages light-hearted musical revue

Students from the Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of Performing Arts will take to the stage of the Breytenbach Theatre in June to perform an exciting musical revue, titled Before & After.
26May2022

Mozambiquan institution forges ties with Arts Faculty

A five-member delegation from the Escola Nacional de Artes Visuais (National Visual Art School) (ENAV) in Mozambique is visiting the Faculty of Arts and Design this week because of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at forging closer ties between the...
20May2022

TUT Arts Alumni Chapter launch on the cards

The Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) is set to launch a number of University Alumni Chapters, with the Faculty of Arts and Design taking the lead. It will host the first Arts Alumni Chapter at the Winston Mankunku Ngozi Building, on 3 June 2022.
19May2022

“Research is fun, this is how it should be approached,” says new Arts Research Prof

Prof Chats Devroop, newly appointed Research Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Design, is no stranger to TUT, as he has worked in the Music programme, among others as HoD, for several years before...
17May2022

Proceeds from lecturer’s debut CD will fund a worthy cause

Most academic staff members working at TUT’s Faculty of Arts and Design are also practicing artists in their respective disciplines, thereby enhancing the quality of Art students’ learning experience. One such staff member is Dr Roland Moses, senior lecturer at the...
06May2022

Former Scandal actor graduates at TUT

Mbulelo Katise, former Scandal actor and Television personality, recently received his first qualification, a National Diploma in Film and Television Directing, from the Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT) Faculty of Arts and Design.
April 2022
22Apr2022

Festival presents great learning experience for up-and-coming performing artists

The second instalment of the New Works Reading Festival (NWRF) will be staged at TUT’s Rostrum Theatre on its Arts Campus on Freedom Day, 27 April (10:00 – 13:00). Presented by the Department of Performing...
21Apr2022

TUT Art Collection makes first acquisitions

The newly established TUT Art Collection recently made its first acquisition consisting of two paintings by artist, Patrick Rulore.
06Apr2022

Fashion Design students give back to community

The saying goes that if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. This principle was put into practice at the Department of Design Studi...
March 2022
30Mar2022

“Africa should create the world in its own image,” VC argues at conference

Young academics from across Africa converged at the Tshwane University of Technology’s Faculty of Arts and Design from 22 – 24 March to Rethink, Remake and Rebuild Arts, Culture and Heritage on the...
16Mar2022

Arts community engagement project aims to empower women

The Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of Design Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Design, will host a community engagement event aimed at empowering girls and young women. The...
February 2022
28Feb2022

Sculpture students turn heads with exhibition

Six second-year sculpture students from the Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of Fine and Studio Arts will be showcasing their work at an exhibition...
24Feb2022

NRF recognises TUT’s brightest research minds

Nineteen of the Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT) brightest research minds recently received new, or upgraded their ratings at the National Research Foundation (NRF). This follows years of...
18Feb2022

A ‘Hat’ inspired welcome for Arts and Design students

The Faculty of Arts and Design pulled out all stops to give its 510 first-year students a welcome that they will not soon forget. During the event, with a hat inspired theme and...
10Feb2022

NIHSS millions will boost Post-doctoral fellowships

A grant of R5.6 million from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), will go a long way in advancing and supporting the University’s Post-doctoral...