Ilse Pahl

PERSONAL PROFILE

I am an artist-educator based in Johannesburg. For the past twenty years, I have taught art and design at the Artist Proof Studio, the Curriculum Development Project, the University of Johannesburg and most recently Wits School of Education. I am committed to inclusive education, and the power of the arts to develop critical thinking and affect transformation.

Through my work in various tertiary teaching contexts, it is clear to me that many learners are not exposed to quality arts education in their primary and secondary learning environments. Aware of the need for committed, experienced arts educators, who are active in their field, and who have a lot of knowledge of African art to teach art at a secondary level, I completed my PGCE in Arts Education at the University of Johannesburg in 2022.

POSTGRADUATE ACEDEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

2021

Postgraduate Certificate in Education. PGCE: University of Johannesburg,

Teaching Methodology & Practical SP ART AND CULTURE, Distinction

Teaching Methodology & Practical FET VISUAL ARTS, Distinction

Educational and Teaching Studies

Conversational Zulu

2003 

Master’s degree in Fine Art: Technikon Witwatersrand, research, dissertation and exhibition titled “Once upon a time… An investigation of selected mass-produced objects and their source for an exhibition of drawings, paintings, and sculptures. Supervisors: Mr. J Wafer and MS M Marais.

TERTIARY EDUCATION 

1997

B- Tech Fine Arts, Technikon Witwatersrand

Sculpture Major Distinction

1996

Teacher Training Diploma in Visual Arts, Technikon Witwatersrand Fine Art Dept., and Curriculum Development Project Trust for Arts Education

1993

Third Year National Diploma Fine Art Technikon Witwatersrand

Sculpture three major distinction,

Printmaking three major distinction

Drawing three major distinction

History of Art three

Photography three

Ceramics One

1990 Completed Matric with university entrance, Jeppe High School for Girls.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2020- 2025 -Lecturing, Wits School of Education Part-time, Art in Education Lecturer in the Curriculum Studies division, Wits School of Education, Learning in and Through Art, foundation phase to senior phase, course co Ordinator

Responsibilities:

· Teach Curriculum Learning in and through Art to 1st year BE Ed students.

· Design assignments and rubrics.

· Design end of year exam.

· Prepare hybrid content for learning, online and in the classroom.

· Research and prepare lesson content according to curriculum.

· Assessment and feedback.

· Collate marks.

· Expose students to a range of artistic practices in and outside the classroom, museum, gallery, and artist studio visits.

2017- to the present: Senior Teacher and 3rd year course developer at the Artist Proof Studio

Responsibilities:

Third Year Teaching, Curriculum Development and Co-ordination

· Develop a curriculum, link history of art to the practical content and print technique, museum visits,

· Collaborate with UJ Printmaking Department Annually theme for 2022 Waste pickers., Art as form of social activism.

· Visual analysis of art works and art movements Emphasis on Contemporary South Africa and African art.

· Develop research and writing skills of students for research paper and exploration of individual thematic development of third year body of work.

· Design and write briefs and assignments.

· Expose students to a range of artistic practices in and outside the classroom, museum, gallery, and artist studio visits.

· Individual student conceptual development.

Teaching Third Year Drawing and Printmaking

Design a drawing curriculum and teach third year advanced drawing course, and development of a personal drawing style.

· Individual portfolio development, a body of prints and drawings suitable for exhibiting in a gallery.

· Implement, manage, and facilitate third year Professional Printmaking programme.

· Teach practical printmaking techniques.

· Demonstrations in traditional and non-traditional drawing and printmaking mediums and techniques.

· Professional Printmaking Ethics.

· Assist in Student fundraiser Youth Month exhibition, June 16.

· Organising the annual 3rd year student graduate show for the public.

· Expose students to a range of artistic practices in and outside the classroom, museum, gallery, and artist studio visits.

 Second Year Teaching Responsibilities

 Drawing and Printmaking

· Develop second year drawing curriculum exploring drawing as mark making to generate an individual style/mark.

· Expose students to a range of artistic practices in and outside the classroom, museum, gallery, and artist studio visits.

· Individual student conceptual development.

· Demonstrations in traditional and non-traditional drawing mediums and techniques.

Demonstrations in print techniques traditional and non-traditional.

· Link the art theory, historical, contemporary, Western and African art to practical component.

· Expose students to a range of artistic practices in and outside the classroom, museum, gallery, and artist studio visits.

Administrative duties: Lesson plans, briefs, assessment documents, practical and theory, timetables, term reports, research material, manage, and order materials, record materials, maintain print studio and equipment, interviewing new applicants, writing annual third year teaching report, curate annual third year student exhibitions and corporate exhibitions of student work.

Personal Research: researching new home printing techniques without a printing press using found materials and examining the role of printmaking in Colonialism and a Post-Colonial context.

2024 External examiner and moderator to the PGCE U of Education in Art Education, Visual Art, and Design

2023 External examiner and moderator to the PGCE UJ School of Education in Art Education, Visual Art, and Design

2019/20/21-External examiner and moderator to the Wits School of Education in Art Education

2006 to 2016

University of Johannesburg, Department of Multimedia.

· First year programme co-ordinator and lecturing in design, life drawing, information design, and illustration.

· Integrate art theory into practical work, write up briefs and update learner guides.

· Second year lecturing in visualisation techniques.

1993 to 2005

University of Johannesburg Graphic Design Department

· First year programme co-ordinator and lecturing in design, life drawing, and illustration.

· Integrate art theory into practical work, write up briefs and update learner guides.

University of Johannesburg Fine Art Department

· Lecturing first year life drawing, conceptual studies, Second year sculpture.

Technikon Witwatersrand Fine Art Department

· Lecturing, first year, life drawing, conceptual studies.

· Graphic Design Department: Design course content and lecturing first year Conceptual Studies.

Technikon Witwatersrand Fine Art Department

· Lecturing and programme co-ordinator First- and Second-year Life Drawing.

National School of the Arts NSA

· Teaching Drawing Grade 9 to 12

Parktown Collage

· Teaching Drawing and Painting Grade 11 to 12

Work Shops

· Facilitate printing skills to foreign national woman living in Bertram’s, developing craft products Bags and tablecloths to generate an income CDP, Curriculum Development Project Bertram’s JHB.

 EXPERIENCE IN THE FOLLOWING ART MEDUIMS

 · Drawing: Charcoal, graphite pencil, colour pencil, chalk pastels & alternative drawing materials.

· Painting: Acrylic, oil, water colour, fabric painting & ink.

· Paper Making & Book Binding: Handmade paper from recycled and organic material. Handmade book binding skills.

· Sewing Skills: Hand and machine sewing skills.

· Sculpture: Clay, mosaic, wood carving, mold making, bronze casting, concrete casting, plaster of Paris, sand casting, cardboard & wire construction, basic welding skills, gas and electric, recycled materials, paper pulp, and paper mâché.

· Digital Media: Stop frame animation, drawing.

· Alternative Hand Printing Techniques: Stamping and printing by hand, with found materials.

· Eco Botanical Printing Techniques: Organic materials on Paper and fabric.

· Intaglio Printing Techniques: Etching, dry point, photographic etching & lithography.

· Relief Printing Techniques: Lino, silk-screening, monotype techniques, direct trace, viscosity.

· Non-toxic Printing Techniques: Etching that is good for people and environment.

· Health & Safety practices in the art classroom.

AWARDS

2024- Awarded a Residency at the Ampersand Foundation in New York, USA, for my outstanding contribution to the visual arts in education.

2003 – National winner of the SASOL Wax in Art competition, wax as part of the process.

1997 – National winner of the ABSA Atelier, residency at the Cite’ des Art’s Internationale Paris, France.

2000 – Awarded a residency at the Thami Mynele Foundation for African Artists in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

1993 –Third year Drawing Student of the year.

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2010– JDA and Trinity Session, public sculpture, Hillbrow Orientation sculpture, collaboration

Between Ilse Pahl and the Artist Proof Studio, corner Catherine & Katz star, Johannesburg.

2009 – JDA and Trinity Session, public sculpture, Hillbrow, Le Roith Park, Johannesburg.

2009 – JDA and Urban Works, BRT bus station design, Lakeview, Johannesburg.

2002 – Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, mosaic monument in honor of all the refugees in our country, Pretoria.

1999 – David Webster Mosaic Memorial, Troyeville, Johannesburg.

WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

· The Smithsonian Museum, Washington, USA

· Thami Mnyele Foundation, the Netherlands

· SASOL Art Collection, Johannesburg, S.A

· University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, S.A

· Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, S.A

· Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, S.A

· Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

Masters Degree Fine Art, PGCE Visual Art and creative Art FET phase