SMFA alum Kim Berman co-founded a printmaking middle in her native South Africa that encourages artists to bring positive changeKim Berman well remembers February 11,1990. She watched on television as Nelson Mandela walked out of prison after twenty-seven years of confinement, a free man.
Long an anti-apartheid activist in her native South Africa, or she helped organize a celebration for Mandela that June in Boston,which drew an estimated 250000 people to the Esplanade.
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