Fèe Halsted-Berning opened the first Bonnie Ntshalintshali Museum at the Rosetta Studio in March 2003. It was dedicated to the memory of Bonnie and many other artists at Ardmore who died as a result of the Aids pandemic. It was the first Museum in South Africa to be dedicated to a black woman artist. The Museum will soon be re-established at Ardmore Lavendula
The intention of the museum when it is re-established will to become an educational and research centre for young artists who will find inspiration in studying some of the most beautiful pieces of Ardmore ceramic art produced over the past twenty years.
Visitors to the museum will be shown traditional Zulu pottery and the stages in the development of Ardmore ceramics. As Fèe says: "The fine art sculptures and exciting ceramics thrown and painted by the artists at Ardmore , far exceed anything I could have imagined when I started with Bonnie twenty years ago."
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