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Prof Kim Berman

Prof Kim Berman is Professor in Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and the co-founder and Executive Director of Artist Proof Studio. She has lectured and exhibited widely and is an NRF rated researcher. She is committed to engaging arts for social change through her activism and teaching. Her book, Finding Voice: A visual approach to engaging change values the notion of voice as key to agency and the responsibility to act. She believes that the arts are a powerful medium to challenge injustice. Her role as an educator embeds the active promotion of creativity, reflexivity, engagement and imagination.

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Prof Kim Berman