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Dr. Nolte's area of academic expertise relates to contemporary South African cultural production, with a particular focus on works produced during the apartheid era, the anti-apartheid struggle, the era of negotiations and the period of the first democratic government. Published works focus on the location and dislocation of space in the lives and works of contemporary women artists working in South Africa. Her research has also focused on the realist-anti-realist polemic between c. 1917 and 1934 in Soviet Russia.

In addition to teaching at the University of Cape Town, the University of Stellenbosch and UFV, Dr. Nolte has worked as a creative artist and curator. She has served on NGO and editorial boards, including the Community Arts Project in Cape Town, the South African National Gallery, the Reach Gallery and Museum in Abbotsford, and Third Text Africa. 

Dr. Nolte has fifteen years of university leadership experience. She served for two terms as Dean of the College of Arts at UFV. As Visual Arts Department Head, Dr. Nolte led the development of the BFA as well as the Visual Arts Major and Minor in the BFA. While Dean, Dr. Nolte oversaw the introduction of the following degrees: the BA Major in Political Science; BA Major in Philosophy; the Global Development Studies Degree; BFA Extended Minors in: Visual Arts, Graphic Design, Media and Communications, and Creative Writing; the BA Major in Economics; BA Major in French; the Indigenous Studies Major and Minor; the Peace and Conflict Studies Major and Minor and postgraduate programs in Program Evaluation and Migration and Citizenship. 

Throughout her career, Dr. Nolte has campaigned for human rights in various political, cultural and women's organizations. In South Africa, she worked as an anti-apartheid activist for twenty years. In Canada, Dr. Nolte has dedicated her career to promoting intercultural dialogue. Dr. Nolte has led, co-led and contributed to numerous speaker series and dialogue sessions and has been a champion of community engagement initiatives, chairing the Peace and Conflict Studies Community Advisory Committee as well as the Peace and Reconciliation Steering Committee responsible for overseeing the UFV Peace and Reconciliation Centre.

During Dr. Schroeder's sabbatical, Dr. Nolte is teaching Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) 100, as well as PACS  391 and PACS 400. She has developed two new courses, PACS 201 Equity-Based Dialogue and PACS 202 An Introduction to Mediating Conflict. She is currently co-designing two new Associate Certificates, one that focuses on dialogue for social change and another on skills for conflict transformation.  

• Ph.D.  (Historical Studies) University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2001.

Dissertation: “The location and dislocation of space in the lives and works of contemporary women artists working in South Africa."
Supervisor: Professor Sandra Klopper, University of Cape Town.
External examiners: Dean Elizabeth Rankin, University of Auckland; Professor Jean Fisher, Middlesex University and the Royal College of Art, London; Professor Brenda Schmahmann, University of Grahamstown. 

• MA (History of Art) (1st class) University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1994.

Dissertation: “Figurative Art in Soviet Russia circa 1921-1934: situating the realist-anti-realist debate in the context of changing definitions of proletarian culture.”

• BA Honours (with distinction) University of Cape Town, 1989 
  
  
• Higher Education Diploma  University of South Africa, 1980
  (Secondary School Teaching)
  
  
• BA (Fine Art)  University of Cape Town, 1978

• Advisory Council of Third Text Africa and manuscript reviewer
• Peace and Conflict Studies Association of Canada
• Society for Research into Higher Education
• Association of Art Historians
• 1991-1997 South African Association of Art Historians (Western Cape), Executive
• 1992-1994  South African Association of Art Historians (Western Cape) Chair
• 1993-1994 National Council of South African Association of Art Historians, Executive
• 1988-89  Chair, Visual Arts Group, Cape Town, South Africa
• 2018 – 2020  Abbotsford Community Development Foundation
• 2013 – 2020 The Reach Gallery and Museum, Abbotsford
• 1996 – 1998 South African National Gallery, nominated after the first democratically elected South African Government
• 1991-1995  Chair, Community Arts Project, NGO, Cape Town 

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Peace and Conflict Studies
• Cultural Production in South Africa
• Modernism
• Gender, Art and Society
• Cultural Production in Soviet Russia
• Aesthetic theory

COURSES TAUGHT AND DEVELOPED AT UFV
AH 214:The Art of English and French Canada, 1665- 1945
AH 230: Issues in Exhibition
AH 320: Arts in Context: Special Topics. Contemporary African (developed)
AH 330: Museums Principles and Practice
AH 401: Senior Seminar 
PACS 100 Peace and Conflict Studies
PACS 391 Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding Fieldwork
PACS 400 Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding Seminar
AH 101 History of Western Arts to 1400
AH 102 History of Western Art 1400 to the Present 
AH 314 Arts in Context: Modernism (reviewed in 2005)
AH 315 Arts in Context: Contemporary (reviewed in 2005)
AH 316 Arts in Context: Gender Art and Society (reviewed in 2005)
AH 320 Arts in Context: Special Topics. Contemporary African (developed)

COURSES DEVELOPED AND CO-DEVELOPED AT UFV
PACS 201 Equity-Based Dialogue
PACS 202  An Introduction to Mediating Conflict 
GD 159  Digital Design Media II
GD 231  Dynamic Media: Character Modelling and Animation
GD 217  Advanced Publication Design
GD 332  Virtual Space Design
GD 374  Concepts and Systems in Communication Design
GD 378  Advanced Digital Imaging

COURSES DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
History of Art 100 level Introduction to Modernism
History of Art 100 level Russian Constructivism (developed); also taught at the University of Stellenbosch
History of Art 100 level Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture in South Africa (developed)
History of Art 200 level (Redressing the exclusion of ) Black Painters and Sculptors in South Africa (developed)
History of Art 200 level Russian Modernism (developed)
History of Art 200 level El Greco in Toledo (developed)
History of Art 300 level Performance Art - a feminist perspective (developed)
History of Art 300 level Theories of Marxist Realism, Russian Formalism and Structuralism (developed)
Honours seminar  Representations of Naked Women: Issues of Identity, Power and Ethics (developed)
Honours seminar  Critical Theory (developed)
Honours seminar  Marxist Aesthetic Theory (developed)
Masters seminar  Projected Identities – Considering the Ethics of an Essential Feminism (developed)       
Supervision of Honours and MA students at UCT,1995 -1997

• Aboriginal Special Funds, AVED, BC. $100,000 (principal applicant)
• Centre for Science and Development, South Africa

• Presentation with Gould, S., Hardman, S and Ciurysek, S. and Bennet, J., Smith, A and Janik, J. “UFV and Lens of Empowerment" at  HOME/LAND: WOMEN, CITIZENSHIP, PHOTOGRAPHIES. The School of the Arts, Loughborough University, UK, 5-7 July 2012
  
  
• Opening address at Transnational Punjabis in the Twenty-First Century Transnational: Beginnings, Junctures and Departures, UFV, May 5-7, 2011. University of the Fraser Valley 
  
  
• "Principles of workload allocation” Western Deans Conference, Victoria, 10-12 March 2011
  
  
• "The Relevance of the Liberal Arts” Western Deans Conference, Victoria, BC, 11-13 March 2010 
  
  
• "The Politics of Collecting Indigenous Art” The Reach Gallery, Abbotsford, BC. 27 November 2010
  
  
• "South African Women's Media Against Violence Against Women” United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, 4–15 September 1995 
  
  
• "The Educational and Developmental Role of the South African Association of Art Historians with Particular Reference to the Western Cape.”Community Arts Project Visual Education and Development Symposium 25 September - 23 October 1993
  
  
• Keynote“Approaches to Teaching Works by Black South African Artists," Art Educator's Conference, South African Gallery, 15-17 October 1993 
  
  
• Keynote “What Marks the Resistant Space Between Theory and Practice,” 2nd National Sculpture Symposium, Durban Technikon Natal, 1992
  
  
• "A Critique of E.J. de Jager's book “Images of Man," Weekly Mail Book Festival, guest speaker, Baxter Theatre, Cape Town, 1992
  
  
• "Challenges to Art History in South Africa in the 1990s,” Sixth Annual Conference of the South African Association of Art Historians, University of Cape Town, 11-13 July 1992 
  
  
• "The Concurrence of Political Interest and Art Criticism in Early Soviet Writing,”South African Association of Art Historians, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, 17th -19th July 1991
  
  
• "Building a National Culture and the Visual Arts,” Community Arts Project Conference 
   “Priorities for the Future”, Cape Town, 1989

ADDITIONAL SELECT PRESENTATIONS/WORKSHOPS

• 2010: Follow up: Lens of Empowerment three-year creative research network project hosted by Marion Arnold and Marsha Meskimmon, University of Loughborough, UFV, University of Cape Town and the International Academy of Art, Palestine
  
  
• 2009: Moderator: “Funding for BC Council of Arts,” The Reach Gallery, Abbotsford 
  
  
• 2009: Opening, UFV Faculty Exhibition, The Reach Gallery, Abbotsford, British Columbia
  
  
• 2009: Diaspora Consortium UFV delegate, Muenster University, Germany 
  
  
• 2009: Lens of Empowerment three-year creative research network project hosted by Marion Arnold and Marsha Meskimmon, University of Loughborough, UFV, University of Cape Town and the International Academy of Art, Palestine
  
  
• 2007: Panel Discussant: The Historical Tragedy of Racism and Other Oppressions in South Africa, UFV, March 27
  
  
• 1999: “Soviet Art Production,” Marpole Place, Vancouver, Canada
  
  
• 1998: Opening address, Bongi Bengu Solo Exhibition, Artists Visual Association, Cape Town, South Africa
  
  
• 1997: “Early Fine Art Production by Black South African Artists,” The Artists Refuge, Basin, Montana, USA
  
  
• 1997: “Contemporary Community Artists in South Africa,” The Arts Chateau, Butte, Montana, USA  
  
  
• 1997: “Printmaking of Cape Town Artists,” Twin Bridges, Montana, USA
  
  
• 1997: “A Critique of 'Township' Art and'`Resistance' Art,” Adult Education Programme, Fish Hoek High School, Cape Town, South Africa
  
  
• 1996: “Paintings and Drawings of Gerard Bengu, Gerard Sekoto and Milwa Pemba,” Summer School at University of Cape Town
  
  
• 1996: “The Paintings of George Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba,” Port Elizabeth Art Gallery, South Africa
  
  
• 1995: “Women and the Media,” African Studies Seminar Series, Cape Town
  
  
• 1995: “Report on United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women,” Community Arts Project, Cape Town
  
  
• 1995: “Report on the use of media at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women,” Lawyers for Human Rights Farmworkers Group, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa  
  
  
• 1993: “Art History in the South African Context – A Critique of the 1992 Cape Education Syllabus for Art,” Secondary School Teachers Professional Development Seminar, South African National Gallery, South Africa
  
  
• 1994: “Works by Gerard Sekoto, Ndevasia John Muafangejo and Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi,” Adult Education Programme, Fish Hoek High School
  
  
• 1993: Panel member of Community Arts Project Visual Education and Development Discussion Forums 25 September - 23 October “The Educational and Developmental Role of the South African Association of Art Historians with Particular Reference to the Western Cape”
  
  
• 1992: “Teaching Art History in South African Schools," Cape Town High School Art Teachers Symposium organized by Art Educators Forum, South African National Gallery 
  
  
• 1991: “Works by Contemporary Black Artists in South Africa” Jeanette Rankin Peace Centre, Missoula, USA
  
  
• 1990: “The ANC and Censorship, the Performing Arts Councils and the Cultural Boycott.”Panel with Barbara Masekela at conference, Community Arts Project, Cape Town
  
  
• 1990: “The Concurrence of Political Interest and Art Criticism in Early Soviet Writing.”The Africa Seminar Series, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Nolte, J. (2017) Visualizing and narrating the everyday: observation, commentary, realism and the art of Lionel Davis.  In Pissarra, M. (Ed), Awakenings. The Art of Lionel Davis (pp 103-126).  Art South
Africa Initiative, University of Cape Town in association with District Six Museum, and Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape

Gould, S., Nolte, J., Hardman, S and Ciurysek, S. with Bennet, J., Smith, A and Janik, J. (2016)
Women's Citizenship and Identity in Stó:lō Territory: a collective essay from the University of 
the Fraser, Valley’s Lens Project. In Meskimmon, M. and Arnold, M. (Eds.), Home/Land: Women,
Citizenship, Photographies (pp 289 - 307). Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, UK

Nolte, J. (2005)  Narratives of Migration in the Works of Noria Mabasa and Mmakgabo Sebidi. In Arnold, M. and Schmahmann, B. (Eds), Between Union and Liberation: Women Artists in South Africa 1910-1994 (pp 174-195). Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot England and Burlington USA

Nolte, J. (1996) Sources and Style in the Oil Paintings of George Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba. In Proud, H. (Ed),  George Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba (pp 37-73), South African National Gallery Publications and Mayibuye Books, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Nolte, J. and Pissarra, M. (1990) MOMA show raises questions about Peoples Culture and Museums. In Eliot, D. (Ed.)  Art from South Africa, (pp 33-34) Thames and Hudson and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. 

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 

Nolte, J. (2000) The Drawings of Bongi Bengu. African Arts, Summer 2000, Vol XXXIII, No. 2, 46-59

Nolte, J. (1997) Contemporary South African Art 1985 – 1995. Third Text 39 Vol 11 Summer, 95-103

Nolte, J. (1997) The Stylistic Differences of Giovanni Pisano's, Duccio's and Giotto's Massacre of the Innocents. De Arte  55, April, 3-20

Nolte, J. (1996)  Jane Alexander. Sculpture and Photomontage. Third Text 36 Vol 10 Autumn, 99-101

Nolte, J (1992) The Concurrence of Political Interest and Art Criticism in Early Soviet Writing. Acta Varia 2, 211-229

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS  (INVITED AND COMMISSIONED)

Nolte, J. (2011) Ownership of the Community Arts Project (CAP), 1976-1997. Posted under Research, Jacqueline Nolte, 18 February 2011, ASAI Art South Africa Initiative <http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=1088> (26 May 2011)

Nolte, J. (2007) Commentary: Community Arts in Rural Settings. The implications of John Brotman's designation of a ‘rural arts’ (Rural Transformations: Considering the Terms ‘Rural, ‘Urban’ and ‘Rural Art’; The Implications of "Rural Art"; The Power of a Participatory "Rural Art")  Culturescope.ca. Canadian, Cultural Observatory, <http://apo.org.au/research/community-arts-rural-settings> (May 2007)

Nolte, J. (2001) Juncture. In Denny, R. and Goodman, F. (Eds) Juncture 2001- Cape Town-London, catalogue 

Nolte, J. (1998) Deborah Poynton  http://www.deborahpoynton.com/pages/reviews_1998_01.html> (20 May 2011)

Nolte, J. (1998) Paintings of Deborah Poynton. Catalogue, Cape Town South Africa: Slingsby Publications

Nolte, J. (1997) Gender Equality: Strategies for Effective Intervention. Agenda 33, 1997, pp 69-74, Durban, South Africa

Nolte, J. (1990) Challenges to Art History in South Africa in the 1990s. In Current Perspectives in South African Art and Architecture.  Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference of the South African Association of Art Historians 11-13 July, pp78-86, University of Cape Town

Nolte, J. (1989) Priorities for the Future in Henderson, P. (Ed) Towards a National Culture, CAP,
 44-47, Cape Town

Nolte, J. (1989) Building a National Culture and the Visual Arts. In Henderson, P. (Ed) Towards
 a National Culture, CAP, 19-22, Cape Town

BOOK REVIEWS

Nolte, J. (2003) TaXi:0007: Noria Mabasa. In art south africa, Vol 1, No. 4. Winter 2003, p 72

Nolte, J. (2011) Ownership of the Community Arts Project (CAP), 1976-1997. Posted under Research, Jacqueline Nolte, 18 February 2011, ASAI Art South Africa Initiative (26 May 2011)