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Ismail Mahomed and Mary Jeffers, from the Public Affairs office of the American Consulate here in Johannesburg. We had a meeting yesterday about them potentially supporting my upcoming solo show (and the free educational workshops that will follow) at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. They made no guarantees as of yet, but were really nice, interested, and interesting. What I found most comforting was their openness to how people identify as being American, and what that means both inside and outside of the states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ismail Mahomed and Mary Jeffers, from the Public Affairs office of the American Consulate here in Johannesburg. We had a meeting yesterday about them potentially supporting my upcoming solo show (and the free educational workshops that will follow) at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. They made no guarantees as of yet, but were really nice, interested, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9blZT-consular","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":511,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/29\/digital-art-walkabout-and-panel-discussion-on-december-4th-at-the-johannesburg-art-gallery\/","url_meta":{"origin":407,"position":0},"title":"Digital Art Walkabout and Panel Discussion on December 4th at the Johannesburg Art Gallery","author":"nathaniel","date":"29 November 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"You are cordially invited to attend a walkabout with nathaniel stern through his exhibition, the storytellers and a seminar\/panel discussion conducted by Sean O'Toole (Moderator): Digital media art in South Africa: What\u2019\u00c4\u00f4s it doing here? 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