About the Artist
Artist Mathapelo Ngaka in Santa Fe, July 2006.
Capetown doll artist at the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe, NM, July 2005.
The 180 women currently participating in the project are producing a variety of one-of-a-kind dolls and bags. In designing and creating these artworks, the women draw on and renew the rich artistic traditions of their several ethnic groups - Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, Sotho and others. In thse works the bead artists of the Cape townships are creating a new, often humorous and sometimes quite startling synthesis of folk traditions.
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