NOMINEE

 

NATIONAL PRESIDENT

 

DIRKIE OFFRINGA

Career

1974  Professional Officer, South African National Gallery, Cape Town 

1974 -1982 Curator, Pretoria Art Museum

1982-1987  Public Relations Officer, University of Pretoria

January-July 1988  Undertook full-time research in Kwazulu-Natal for MA degree (History of Art) at the University of Pretoria on Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift

August 1988-1983  Senior Researcher, Human Sciences Research Council

1993-2008 Chief Curator/ Head, Pretoria Art Museum

Publications

1974-1987 monthly contributions on art in daily newspapers and Arts Calender

1989-1991 monthly articles on art  for FOCUS (HSRC publication)

1982–1984  freelance art critic for former Transvaler;  articles for the South African Museums Association  TechnicalNewsletter (1980), and the Pretoria Art Museum Bulletin

Author of a booklet Pretoria Art Museum, 2000; 

Walking Tall Without Fear:  24 South African Artists from the Struggle Era, Jacklin Publishers, 2007

Manuscript on 50 heritage sights for the former City Council of Pretoria (Cultural Route, 1991)

Rorke’s Drift, Pretoria Art Museum exhibition publication, 1995

Co-author with A Minnaar and c Payze of book To live in fear: Witch-burning and medicine murder in Venda, HSRC, 1992; 

Numerous conference papers, e.g. on Museology as a career, Friends of Museums, Gender violence and its relation to withchcraft in Venda, Protest art and political ideoplogy, etc.

 

Membership

2002-2010 Chairman of the Board of the William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley

2002-2006  Council member of the National Heritage Council; 

2005-2007  Council member of the Gauteng Arts and Culture Council; 

2005-2007  Member  of the National Arts Council; 

987-2008  Member of the Arts Association Pretoria; 

Member of the Stellenbosch Arts Association, the South African Association for Art and Architecture Historians and

the South African Museums Association.