Eastern Cape

artEC (formerly EPSAC) is a non profit organisation and Community Art Centre, set up for the “advancement of the Visual Arts and Art Craftsmanship” by working to uplift the arts in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, helping artists and encouraging a public interest in the arts.

Formed in November 1925 and following on the activities after 1946 when the Ann Bryant Art Gallery was established, the society played a meaningful role in gathering art to bolster the bequest by Mrs Ann Bryant and purchased a number of artworks for the collection over the years.  At present the society has 90 paid-up members and is affiliated to the South African National Association for the Visual Arts, SANAVA.  The society holds an annual exhibition of members’ work in the Gallery, as well as a Peep Show, of miniature paintings, and Anything but Paint exhibition.