\u2019n Vriendelike en bekende gesig van \u2019n plaaslike kunsskool het Donderdag 14 Desember sy verfkwas tydelik neergel\u00ea en die instansie wat hy sedert 1988 as onderwyser en skoolhoof gedien het, gegroet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nelis Koegelenberg was vir 35 jaar \u2019n integrale deel van die PJ Olivier-kunssentrum aan Die Braak in Stellenbosch. In sy tyd by die skool het di\u00e9 flambojante kunstenaar deur die geledere van onderwys beweeg. Hy het by di\u00e9 instelling as \u2019n \u201cgewone onderwyser\u201d begin voordat hy as departementshoof aangestel is en uiteindelik in 2006 as skoolhoof die leisels oorgeneem het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy onthou sy eerste dag by die sentrum asof dit gister was, en wys daarop dat hy presies die helfte van die skool se bestaan deel daarvan was, aangesien die instelling vanjaar sy 70ste herdenking gevier het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het hier as \u2019n vars jong onderwyser in 1988 \u2013 \u2019n skrikkeljaar \u2013 ingestap. Ek is aangestel om tekstielontwerp as vak aan te bied,\u201d herroep Koegelenberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSedertdien het honderde kunsstudente van 17 skole deur my hande gegaan, baie wat vandag bekende kunstenaars is. Ek is trots om te s\u00ea dat ek \u2019n hand in die vorming van hul kunsloopbaan gehad het, en die skool in die algemeen. Baie van my leerders het kuns hul loopbaankeuse gemaak; van hulle werk as modeontwerpers, binneversierders en tekstielkopers. Met die goeie samewerking en kundigheid van die skoolpersoneel het ons baie suksesstories om te vertel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met twee diplomas in sy arsenaal het die 60-jarige sy onderwysloopbaan in 1982 by die Laerskool Newton in Kimberley begin. Hier het hy twee jaar deurgebring voordat hy vir \u2019n BA-graad in Beeldende Kunste aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch gestudeer het. In 1992 het hy \u2019n honneursgraad behaal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs onderwyser was die grootste genot om te sien hoe die kinders kreatief groei. As skoolhoof was dit vir my belangrik om na die kinders, my kli\u00ebnte, te luister en hulle te bemagtig, sodat hulle kan presteer. Ek was vasberade om vir hulle die gereedskap en vaardighede te bied om sukses te behaal, en ek kan met trots s\u00ea dat ek d\u00edt wel met honderde kinders oor die jare heen verrig het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Koegelenberg is trots op die feit dat hy gedurende sy termyn as skoolhoof \u2019n oopdeurbeleid gehandhaaf het, iets wat hy as \u2019n hoogtepunt van sy loopbaan beskou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHierdie sentrum is in die hart van die dorp gele\u00eb en is \u2019n baken van lig en hoop vir baie,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVan die oomblik dat ek as skoolhoof aangestel is, was dit my missie om hoop aan die studente te gee, dat hulle die lig mag sien en diep mag delf om daardie kreatiwiteit te vind wat in elk van ons ontgrendel moet word. Met die ontdekking van daardie kreatiwiteit is by elke kind pure geluk ontsluit, wat beteken het dat ek my doelwit bereik het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die man met die kenmerkende donker hare en dik snor het talle goeie verhoudings met plaaslike organisasies, instellings en ondernemings gesmee, nie net om die skool bekend te maak nie, maar ook om te groei as \u2019n plek waar die deure van leer en kreatiwiteit altyd vir mense van alle lewenswandelinge oop is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy is veral trots op sy en die sentrum se verskeie pogings om kuns na die mense te neem, veral die Kickstart-program wat by die Ho\u00ebrskool L\u00fcckhoff van stapel gestuur is en die bemagtigingsprojek met die vroue van Khayamandi twee jaar voor die 2010 Sokker-w\u00eareldbeker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDaar is baie suksesstories waarmee ons kan spog, maar vir my was elke dag by hierdie skool \u2019n suksesstorie, want hier kon ek help om mense te laat droom. Baie mense het deur hierdie deure gestap en hul verbeelding gebruik om kunsskeppings op te tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het goeie verhoudings met die ouers, die amptenare van die Wes-Kaapse Onderwysdepartement en diegene op die beheerliggaam gebou. D\u00edt het als tot my sukses by die skool bygedra.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoewel Koegelenberg die skool gegroet het, het hy nie vir Stellenbosch of die kunste gegroet nie. Die trotse Stellenbosser beplan om in sy aftrede by \u2019n kunsprojek in Kylemore betrokke te wees, deur die Eikestad se strate fiets te ry, voort te gaan met sy skilder-, keramiek-, en porseleinkuns, meer boeke te lees en die w\u00eareld te verken op vele reistogte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVolgende jaar het ek \u2019n artist in residence<\/span>-geleentheid in New Mexiko in Amerika en ek gaan ook in April by vriende in Nederland kuier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Waarna gaan hy die meeste verlang?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk gaan die mense verskriklik mis \u2013 my leerders en elke personeellid wat net deur hul teenwoordigheid en met hul helder en sprankelende persoonlikhede my dae opgekikker het en elke dag by die sentrum \u2019n lieflike ervaring gemaak het.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2019n Vriendelike en bekende gesig van \u2019n plaaslike kunsskool het Donderdag 14 Desember sy verfkwas tydelik neergel\u00ea en die instansie wat hy sedert 1988 as onderwyser en skoolhoof gedien het, 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