Join us for the Launch Party for IMPACT Magazine’s Newest Issue, Vol. 4. No. 2, and a celebration of “YOINK!”, featuring new works by Chris Moss. Celebrate with us at Thompson Savannah, 201 Port Street!

IMPACT Vol. 4 No. 2 features:

In our cover feature Third Ear, Second Skin, Melissa Messina talks with Krista Clark, Sonya Yong James, and Vadis Turner about their project to be presented at the 2nd Annual Atlanta Art Fair this fall

Katie Jentleson, the HIGH Museum’s Senior Curator of American Art explores the work of visionary artist Minnie Evans ahead of The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans, which travels to the Whitney Museum of American Art after its fall 2025 Atlanta debut

Fresh off of her second exhibition with Zidoun-Bossuyt Paris, NY-based artist Summer Wheat talks about her vibrant textured works with SCAD Museum of Art curator Brittany Richmond ahead of her solo show Fruits of Labor, on display at SCAD MOA this fall

Art historian Lisa Jaye Young and contributor Noah Kelber provide a fresh look at Southern conceptual land artist Beverly Buchanan in 2 dual essays

Award winning writer, oral historian and teaching artist Trelani Michelle interviews artist, poet, community activist vanessa german

Ryan Madson interviews Detroit-based artist James Benjamin Franklin whose work explores time, texture and materiality, and is currently on display at Laney Contemporary in Savannah

Curator Coco Conroy, shares her favorite photographs with words in this issue’s Top 10

Peter Relic and Ryan Madson travel Highway 17 in search of “infinite monuments” across the coastal lowlands

Publishers: Emily Earl & Jon Witzky; Editors/Design: Emily Earl & Jon Witzky; Photo Director: Emily Earl; Events Editor & Production Assistant: Samantha Mack

9 x 12”, 104 pages. Published by ARTS Southeast, September, 2025.

Vol. 4 No. 2 is made possible with support from Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency – the National Endowment for the Arts

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Join us on Wednesday, October 8th from 6 - 8PM for a Happy Hour Meet & Greet at Colleagues & Lovers with our October ON::View Artist-in-Residence, Noah Reyes!

Noah Reyes (b.1994) is an artist taking steps in many different directions, resulting in a peculiar dance between curating, writing, and artmaking. After receiving a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Noah returned to their hometown of Atlanta. They aim to bridge connections between people, cultures, and art in hopes of shaping a more empathetic and nurturing future. Noah has exhibited at various spaces across the American southeast including MOCA GA, Zeitgeist Gallery, and Westobou. They have spoken at GSU, UGA, and Atlanta Contemporary for their work as an artist and curator. Noah is the Editorial + Outreach Coordinator for Art Papers, serves as a board member for Lostintheletters, and sometimes writes for ArtsATL, ART PAPERS, Burnaway, and IMPACT. 

Location: 4523 Habersham St, Savannah, GA 31405

“I’ve been intrigued by the theme of processions the past few years, initially inspired by the religious processions that happen with regularity in every village where I live in southern Italy. These processions recall ancient local practices of bringing gifts to the gods that once protected this area and mirror similar events in every culture. I started to imagine what a contemporary Savannah procession might look like...an assembly of characters moving together towards their to-be-determined destination. The figures and faces for this work will come directly from Savannah’s historic and contemporary milieu: portrait sittings will be open to the public, leaving space for spontaneous participation and conversations about the past, present, and future of Savannah.”  – Melinda Borysevicz

In conjunction with First Fridays in Starland

CLOSING RECEPTION for Living on the Edge, a Solo Exhibition by Taeka Zuidema

Join us for our biannual Sulfur Street Fair!

The Sulfur Street Fair is a semiannual fundraiser/community event hosted by ARTS Southeast, taking place on October 3rd, from 5 - 9 PM, in conjunction with First Fridays in Starland. It will be hosted on 39th St, between Bull Street and De Soto Ave, and features:

• Local vendors

• Live painters

• Live music

October’s Street Fair will mark the release of IMPACT Arts + Culture Magazine, Vol. 4 No. 2, Savannah’s only dedicated arts and culture publication — heavy on visual content, this full color, glossy, 9x12” magazine features some of the South’s most exciting artists, writers and creatives. With poetry, fiction, comics, music & film reviews and more, IMPACT celebrates art and culture in the Southeast!

October First Friday Festivities will also include:

CLOSING RECEPTION for Living on the Edge, a Solo Exhibition by Teake Zuidema in The Ellis Gallery

CONTINUING RECEPTION for Off the Wall, a Group Supporter Exhibition in The Supporter Gallery

ON::VIEW RESIDENCY PROJECT FINALE with Melinda Borysevicz, our August + September Artist-in-Residence

OPEN STUDIOS with our studio members, including our Incubator Artist, Isaac McCaslin!

and EXTENDED HOURS in our Sulfur Shop!

Join us at ARTS Southeast for an Artist Talk with Cindy Male in conjunction with her project Resonance: The Flow of Compassion in the Drive Thru Art Box. The talk will begin at ARTS Southeast, followed by a group walk to Green Truck Pub to view the work!

Join us on Monday, September 22nd at 6PM for an Artist Talk with our August + September ON::View Artist-in-Residence, Melinda Borysevicz!

Melinda Borysevicz is an Italian-American figurative artist currently living and working in rural southern Italy. After participating for many years in Savannah, Georgia’s vibrant creative scene, she traveled to a village not too far from her ancestral home in southern Italy. “A couple months away” has turned into several years after Borysevicz simply stayed to continue to paint. Her narrative portrait and figure paintings spring directly from her personal experience of having re-discovered her ancestral home. 

“I’ve been intrigued by the theme of processions the past few years, initially inspired by the religious processions that happen with regularity in every village where I live in southern Italy. These processions recall ancient local practices of bringing gifts to the gods that once protected this area and mirror similar events in every culture. I started to imagine what a contemporary Savannah procession might look like...an assembly of characters moving together towards their to-be-determined destination. The figures and faces for this work will come directly from Savannah’s historic and contemporary milieu: portrait sittings will be open to the public, leaving space for spontaneous participation and conversations about the past, present, and future of Savannah.” – Melinda Borysevicz

PROJECT FINALE: Friday, October 3rd, from 5 - 9PM in conjunction with First Fridays in Starland

Join us on Wednesday, September 17th at 6 PM for an Artist Talk with Teake Zuidema in conjunction with her solo exhibition Living on the Edge, on display in The Ellis Gallery from September 5th - October 18th, 2025.

With an introduction by Anne Lindsay, Associate Director of Education at UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant.

About the Exhibition 

Living on the Edge features large panoramas that build upon Dutch photographer Teake Zuidema’s fascination with coastal locations where the forest turns abruptly into marsh, creek, beach, or sea. Zuidema identifies with the oaks, cabbage palms, cedars and cypresses, and honors them as dramatic characters involved in heroic battles that, sooner or later, will push them over the final edge between life and death. As an immigrant and a newcomer to the coastal area, this project has also been a way for Zuidema to make the coast his home.

About the Artist

During his study at the Free University (VU) of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Zuidema specialized in the use of film and photography in ethnographic research and made films and photo documentaries in the Netherlands, Mexico and Central America. After receiving a master's degree in cultural anthropology, he became a freelance photographer. Zuidema has worked all over the world for the Dutch photo agency ANP (Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau) and for international newspapers and magazines. His work has been published in the National Geographic Traveler, The Guardian, GEO and many other publications. Since moving to Savannah in 2021, he has focused on photographing the landscapes of the Georgia and South Carolina coasts. Zuidema’s work in Living on the Edge is supported by the University of Georgia Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant’s Artists, Writers and Scholars (AWS) program.

Join us for First Fridays in Starland – every first Friday of the month from 5 - 9PM! September’s First Friday will be held on Friday, September 5th

OPENING RECEPTION for Living on the Edge, a Solo Exhibition by Teake Zuidema in The Ellis Gallery

OPENING RECEPTION for Off the Wall, a Group Supporter Exhibition in The Supporter Gallery

ON::VIEW RESIDENCY OPEN STUDIO with Melinda Borysevicz, our August + September Artist-in-Residence

OPEN STUDIOS with our studio members, including our Incubator Artist, Isaac McCaslin!

and EXTENDED HOURS in our Sulfur Shop!

Join us for a Happy Hour Meet and Greet and Project Discussion with August + September ON::View Artist-in-Residence Melinda Borysevicz! Melinda will share her plans for the work to be painted during her Residency - a Savannah procession featuring figures and faces from the community. Portrait sessions for this work will be open to the public - attend this informational meet and greet to learn more!

Join us on Wednesday, August 6th at 6 PM for an Artist Talk with Debora Oden in conjunction with her solo exhibition Whistling in the Dark on display in The Ellis Gallery from July 4th - August 16th, 2025

About the Exhibition:

Whistling in the Dark is a collection of works exploring the roles of abstraction and play as methods of navigating the beauty and chaos of our contemporary life on earth. The works are created with oil-based inks, printed on paper, then mounted onto panels. The creation of these pieces begins and ends through monoprint processes where Oden navigates energy, conflict, and boundaries (both real and imagined) and their influence on the movement of matter. The artist thinks of these works as moving images. Marks spill, they crash, they block, and they bounce, the action to be completed in the viewer's mind. Everything is in a state of flux; the only constant is change.

About the Artist:

Debora Oden won the Triennial Prize, 5th Egyptian International Print Triennial, Cairo, Egypt and her work was included in the 3rd International Experimental Engraving Biennial at The Brancovan Palace Cultural Center in Mogosoaia, Romania. She was also invited to participate in the 2009 China Sanbao International Printmaking Exhibition and Symposium, hosted by the Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, Shanxi University College of Fine Art and the Beijing Center Academy of Fine Art. In addition, her work has been exhibited in France, Thailand, Egypt, Poland and Austria. Her prints can be found in the collections of The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, the University of Dallas, the University of Nebraska, Hallmark Global Services, Grinnell College and the Kohler Art Library.

“There is history that sits beneath my feet in my grandparents backyard. In recent bodies of work I have travelled home to McIntosh and Glynn County to document various sites of oyster tabby shells, ruins, plantation grounds, and architecture. I want to deeply understand the roots and foundations of where I come from by documenting parts of the land that still hold original tabby ruins and foundations (related to slave trade and housing); to later create my own molds and studies for a longer term project. Each visit feels like a homecoming as I unpack a history that is embedded within the infrastructure of my upbringing. Through the camera, my desire to handbuild, and my intention to mine memory; my goal is to photograph and build different small forms of oyster tabby objects – using this as a time to process and to redefine the key materials I need to use to create.” – Davion Alston

In conjunction with First Fridays in Starland

CLOSING RECEPTION for Whistling in the Dark, a Solo Exhibition by Debora Oden in The Ellis Gallery

About the Exhibition: Whistling in the Dark is a collection of works exploring the role of abstraction and play as a method of navigating the beauty and chaos of our contemporary life on earth. The works are created with oil-based inks, printed on paper, then mounted onto panels. The creation of these pieces begins and ends through monoprint processes where Oden navigates energy, conflict, and boundaries (both real and imagined) and their influence on the movement of matter. The artist thinks of these works as moving images. Marks spill, they crash, they block, and they bounce, the action to be completed in the viewer's mind. Everything is in a state of flux; the only constant is change. 

About the Artist: Debora Oden won the Triennial Prize, 5th Egyptian International Print Triennial, Cairo, Egypt and her work was included in the 3rd International Experimental Engraving Biennial at The Brancovan Palace Cultural Center in Mogosoaia, Romania. She was also invited to participate in the 2009 China Sanbao International Printmaking Exhibition and Symposium, hosted by the Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, Shanxi University College of Fine Art and the Beijing Center Academy of Fine Art. In addition, her work has been exhibited in France, Thailand, Egypt, Poland and Austria. Her prints can be found in the collections of The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, the University of Dallas, the University of Nebraska, Hallmark Global Services, Grinnell College and the Kohler Art Library.

Join us for First Fridays in Starland – every first Friday of the month from 5 - 9PM! August’s First Friday will be held on Friday, August 1st

CLOSING RECEPTION for Whistling in the Dark, a Solo Exhibition by Debora Oden in The Ellis Gallery

CLOSING RECEPTION for Wild Thing, a Group Supporter Exhibition in The Supporter Gallery

ON::VIEW RESIDENCY PROJECT FINALE with Davion Alston, our June + July Artist-in-Residence

OPEN STUDIOS with our studio members, including our Incubator Artist, Isaac McCaslin!

and EXTENDED HOURS in our Sulfur Shop!

ARTIST TALK with ON::View Artist-in-Residence, Davion Alston: Wednesday, July 23rd at 6PM

“There is history that sits beneath my feet in my grandparents backyard. In recent bodies of work I have travelled home to McIntosh and Glynn County to document various sites of oyster tabby shells, ruins, plantation grounds, and architecture. I want to deeply understand the roots and foundations of where I come from by documenting parts of the land that still hold original tabby ruins and foundations (related to slave trade and housing); to later create my own molds and studies for a longer term project. Each visit feels like a homecoming as I unpack a history that is embedded within the infrastructure of my upbringing. Through the camera, my desire to handbuild, and my intention to mine memory; my goal is to photograph and build different small forms of oyster tabby objects – using this as a time to process and to redefine the key materials I need to use to create.” – Davion Alston

Join us for First Fridays in Starland – every first Friday of the month from 5 - 9PM! July’s First Friday will be held on Friday, July 4th

OPENING RECEPTION for Whistling in the Dark, a Solo Exhibition by Debora Oden in The Ellis Gallery

CONTINUING RECEPTION for Wild Thing, a Group Supporter Exhibition in The Supporter Gallery

ON::VIEW RESIDENCY OPEN STUDIO with Davion Alston, our June + July Artist-in-Residence

OPEN STUDIOS with our studio members, including our Incubator Artist, Isaac McCaslin!

and EXTENDED HOURS in our Sulfur Shop!

Join us at ARTS Southeast for an Artist Talk with Eric David Wooddell in conjunction with his project “Past - Present - Future” in The Drive Thru Art Box at Green Truck Pub! We’ll meet at ARTS Southeast for an indoor talk, then walk over to Green Truck to grab a bite and see the work in person.

Eric David Wooddell is a visual & sound artist who uses collage and paint to create layers of inspiration for others. He works from his studio at Cedar House Savannah, GA and is continually inspired by the city’s vibrant and cooperative artist community. For his project in the Drive Thru Art Box, Wooddell worked in collage and paint on panels to explore temporal themes utilizing the box’s three sections. Past – Present – Future will be on display in the Drive Thru Art Box from April 10th – July 8th, 2025. Artist Instagram: @madeonearthstudio

Davion is a visual artist, educator, and critic based between Atlanta, GA, New Haven, CT, and Brooklyn, NY. He describes his work as a constant flow of doing and undoing; thematically informed by his personal upbringing, and out of the desire to know where his genealogical lineage comes from. The language for his artistic process rests at the intersections of visibility, endurance, stillness, memory, displacement, and connectivity; usually blurring and redefining his relationship between photography, sculpture, and installation.

Location: Over Yonder, 2424 Abercorn St, Savannah, GA

Join us for an Exhibition Walk-Thru with Alan Rothschild, Founder of The Do Good Fund, in conjunction with "Tomorrow and Yesterday, Selections from The Do Good Fund" in The Ellis Gallery at ARTS Southeast.

To learn more about the exhibition and The Do Good Fund, visit artssoutheast.org/dogoodfund

Thank you to our exhibition sponsors:

Lead Sponsor: Bud Green & Lynn Weddle
Reception Sponsors: Joshua Yates, Marilyn Brady & Dave Henry

Our programming is made possible with support by:

Investment by the City of Savannah, Georgia Council for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Gulfstream Aerospace, Starlandia Supply

Join us for First Fridays in Starland – every first Friday of the month from 5-9PM!

June’s First Friday will feature:

CLOSING RECEPTION for Tomorrow and Yesterday, Selections from The Do Good Fund in The Ellis Gallery

OPENING RECEPTION for Wild Thing, a Group Exhibition in The Supporter Gallery

PROJECT FINALE for our May ON::View Artist-in-Residence, Jana Marie Cariddi

OPEN STUDIOS

and EXTENDED HOURS IN THE SULFUR SHOP

Tomorrow and Yesterday brings together over 30 photographs from The Do Good Fund — a public photography archive based in Columbus, GA — featuring a broad cross-section of Southern image makers working from the post-WWII era to the present.

Featured artists: Carolyn Drake, William Ferris, Jill Frank, Lee Friedlander, Peyton Fulford, Andres Gonzalez, Emmet Gowin, Stacy Kranitz, Baldwin Lee, Gordon Parks, Sheila Pree Bright, Tamara Reynolds, Jeff Rich, RaMell Ross, Maude Schuyler Clay, Sage Sohier, Mike Smith, Mark Steinmetz, Susan Worsham, Brandon Thibodeaux

The Do Good Fund, Inc. is a Columbus, GA based public charity. Since its founding in 2012, the fund has focused on building a museum-quality collection of photographs taken in the American South since World War II. The collection ranges from works by more than twenty Guggenheim Fellows to images by lesser known and emerging photographers working in the region. 

Do Good’s mission is to make its collection of more than 800 images broadly accessible through regional museums, nonprofit galleries, and nontraditional venues and to encourage complementary, community-based programming to accompany each exhibition.

Thank you to our exhibition sponsors:

Lead Sponsor: Bud Green & Lynn Weddle
Reception Sponsors: Joshua Yates, Marilyn Brady & Dave Henry

Our programming is made possible with support by:

Investment by the City of Savannah, Georgia Council for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Gulfstream Aerospace, Starlandia Supply

During her time as an artist in residence at ARTS Southeast, Jana will be working on pieces for her upcoming exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art. The show will feature sculptural paintings and a wall-sized installation of drawings that raise questions about our internal state in relation to our body and our surroundings. At what point do they coalesce? Through visceral imagery, texture, and sculptural approaches to painting, she conjures worlds from memory and partial recall, allowing feeling to take over logic.

During her time as an artist in residence at ARTS Southeast, Jana will be working on pieces for her exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art. The show will feature sculptural paintings and a wall-sized installation of drawings that raise questions about our internal state in relation to our body and our surroundings. At what point do they coalesce? Through visceral imagery, texture, and sculptural approaches to painting, she conjures worlds from memory and partial recall, allowing feeling to take over logic.