apexart :: New York City Fellow :: Vumelani Sibeko
Fellowship Program
   
Name: Vumelani Sibeko
Visiting From: Johannesburg, South Africa  
Dates of fellowship: November 1 - December 4, 2012  
Recommended by: Puleng Plessie
Art Administrator & Workshop Facilitator
 
Vumelani Sibeko was born in Emndeni Soweto in 1975. Sibeko studied at Vaal Triangle Technikon (now Vaal University of Technology) between 1997 and 1999. At the Technikon, he became exposed to racial differences. He says that, "it was more of a political class than anything else. You were constantly reminded that you were black." At an early age, Sibeko recalls his mother's support for his drawing on white paper, until he began drawing on his school clothes. He made a business with his art at an early age, drawing for fellow classmates in biology class. Until February 2012, he used the surname Buthelezi, a surname his father adopted from a family he boarded with after escaping life as a farm laborer in search of a better life in Johannesburg.
 
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FELLOWSHIP TALK: in conversation with Amanda Browder from Bad at Sports
November 30, 2012: 3 pm: download video (282 MB .mp4)