Lucinda Jolly is the HOD of CityVarsity’s Art Department which runs two programs, the one-year Motion Picture Make-up Certificate and the two-year Motion Picture Production Design Diploma.
She is responsible for the management of the art department in all its facets. This includes anything and everything from lecturing, overseeing the curriculum and timetables, leading the department’s team of lecturers, to attending to students and the department’s administration.
Lucinda started her career in 1982 as a freelance journalist for the Argus & Cape Times newspapers and doing art teaching locums. She then worked as a Copywriter for a number of advertising agencies before joining the Groote Schuur Hospital as a medical illustrator until mid-1994.
She has been involved in producing and presenting a weekly magazine radio programme on Bush Radio and served on the Film and Publications Board as an examiner.
Before joining CityVarsity fulltime in 2007 as the HOD, she spent 11 years as a secondary school teacher teaching art, graphic design, English and life orientation while running two evening short courses for CityVarsity namely Creative Writing and Magazine Journalism.
Lucinda is a graduate of Michaelis School of Fine Art (UCT) with a BA FA majoring in printmaking and an HED (UCT).
