The Imbali Visual Literacy Project was founded by Yvonne Wilson as a project of Women for Peace in 1988, when a children’s national art competition showed that children with little or no access to art at school demonstrated extremely poor perceptual skills.

Imbali uses innovative applied and work-based learning strategies to teach art, design, and critical thinking to youth, the unemployed and people with disabilities providing them and their communities with a path to economic and cultural sustainability. In addition, we facilitate the ongoing development of creative arts teachers, particularly in disadvantaged communities.

Imbali is built on the philosophy that art and creativity are powerful forces for social change, and that creative entrepreneurship through the arts is a productive and life-changing opportunity for youth, the unemployed and people with disabilities

Imbali is registered with the Caths Seta and offers accredited training programmes in the areas of crafts production, crafter enterprise and creative facilitation. We are based in Newtown (Johannesburg), but work throughout Gauteng and in a number of other South African provinces.