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Chepape Makgato's TakeOnArt: Chepape Makgato is a Johannesburg-based independent artist and arts writer, contributing formerly to ART AFRICA and The Journalist online publications. He works at the Royal Art House studio in Johannesburg and is the founder and creative director of Samanthole Creative Projects & Workshop, a community-based art organisation established in 2010 focusing on arts and literacy youth programmes. He is a multi-award winning visual artist who has exhibited in three continents of Africa, Europe and North America in solo and group exhibitions including art fairs. His work is collected by various corporates including JP Morgan Chase, Smithsonian African Modern Art Museum, SA Embassy in USA and Washington Printmakers Gallery among other collections. His inaugural theatre production was Man Alone staged in Polokwane, Limpopo province and mainstream premiered at the Market Theatre in October 2019. Chepape is the chief patron and founding director of Khehla Chepape Makgato Youth Libraries in rural schools in Limpopo. He is the recipient of 2022 Sustainability and Arts Prize by Goethe Institute and Mail & Guardian. He has Master of Arts in Fine Art from University of the Witwatersrand.