The Medu Arts Ensemble was an Anti-Apartheid resistance art movement that operated in Gaborone, Botswana. (Medu is the Pedi word for "roots.") Membership consisted of South African exiles and western sympathizers, and included five artistic units: photography, film and theatre, music, graphic art, and publications and research. The visual arts unit membership consisted of: Thami Mnyele, Miles Pelo, Heinz, Judy Seidman, Gordon Metz, Albio, Theresa Gonzales, Philip Segola, and Lentswe Mokgatle. From 1979-1985, the Medu graphic arts unit produced over fifty anti-Apartheid posters. These posters were smuggled into South African and posted throughout the black townships. The Art Toward Social Development exhibition was housed at the National Museum and Art Gallery in Gaborone, Botswana. The exhibition ran from June 10, 1982, through August 10, 1982. The exhbition featured paintings, drawings, various graphic techniques, silkscreen posters, mixed media, photographs, and sculptures. There were 169 works by 58 artists and 168 photographs by 29 photographers. The exhibit overlapped with The Culture and Resistance Symposium, an event where artists, cultural workers, and activists discussed the future of South African culture.
