Kim Berman is an Associate Professor in Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg and Executive Director of Artist Proof Studio (APS), a community- based Printmaking Centre in Newtown. She received her B.F.A. from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1981 and her M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/ Tufts University in 1989. She initiated the Paper Prayers campaign-HIV/AIDS awareness through the visual arts from 1997, which operates out of APS as a successful income generating activity and learning program to support HIV positive women.  Kim Berman received government funding in 2000 to implement a national poverty alleviation programme, Phumani Paper, which still supports 10 small enterprises in hand made paper and crafts in seven provinces. She has lectured and exhibited widely in South Africa and internationally. She completed her PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand; her thesis is entitled “Agency, Imagination and Resilience: Facilitating Social Change through the Visual Arts in South Africa” (2009).