Zeitz MOCAA & UWC Welcome 2025 Museum Fellowship Cohort

Date & Time

01 February 25 - 31 January 26

10:00 AM - 18:00 PM

Zeitz MOCAA & University of the Western Cape (UWC) Welcome 2025 Museum Fellowship Cohort

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) and the University of the Western Cape (UWC) welcome six fellows from across the African continent to participate in the fourth year of the Zeitz MOCAA & UWC Museum Fellowship Programme. The pan-African museum fellowship programme encourages discourse around contemporary art, curatorial practice, art education, conservation, heritage and museology from Africa and the African diaspora.

This accomplished group of thinkers and practitioners is set to shape the future of curatorial practice and arts research across the African continent and beyond. We look forward to sharing their journey as they push boundaries and reimagine what art, history, and community can mean in the museum context!

Please welccome Arafa C. Hamadi (Tanzania/Kenya), Evyn Bileri Banawoye (Togo/USA), Keamogetse Mosienyane (Botswana), Deborah Olatunji (Nigeria/USA), Myles Tarentaal (South Africa), and Rosemary Esinam Damalie (Ghana).

The programme endeavours to increase knowledge production around curatorial practice, arts administration and heritage management. It offers fellows exposure to museum practice facilitated by Zeitz MOCAA senior staff and is underpinned by academic rigour in art, heritage and museum scholarship facilitated by the University of the Western Cape’s Department of Historical Studies. Fellows study and work with both institutions towards an accredited BA Honours qualification.

Fellows will gain practical work experience at Zeitz MOCAA in the Curatorial, Registrar & Collection Management, Exhibition Design, Art Education, and Institutional Advancement departments. After an initial orientation and rotation period within the various departments starting 1 May 2025, each member of the cohort will get settled in their respective departments. They actively contribute to the research, planning, execution and management of Zeitz MOCAA projects, ranging from exhibitions, publishing and public programming to art education and fundraising.

Follow @zeitzmocaa on social media to track the journey of the 2025 Zeitz MOCAA & UWC Museum Fellows.

The 2024 Zeitz MOCAA & University of the Western Cape (UWC) Museum Fellowship Programme is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.