Atlanta, GA

March 2025

Sierra King (b.1992) is a Southern Black woman whose words fall out of her mouth like molasses. An artist, archivist, and curator, she is interested in embodiment, memory work, non-linear timelines, southern colloquiums, musicianship and dark matter. King holds a BA in Art from Valdosta State University and is currently a Social Justice For Archivists Scholar at The University of Alabama in the Masters of Library Science and Information Program. She serves as the founder and principal archivist of Build Your Archive, a nomadic memory work lab for Black Women Artists, Cultural Workers Organizers and their communities. King’s interdisciplinary practice presents photographic and archival installations in site specific spaces that honor the land — how it’s being kept and preserved. While in Residence, King will utilize her own archival materials, journaling and personal practice to create a speculative narrative of herself – one that honors the present but also takes into account what her future self may look like.

Coulter Fussell: Gold Can Stay

On Display in The Ellis Gallery at ARTS Southeast

March 6th - April 12th, 2025

March 7th, 5 - 9 PM : First Friday Opening Reception

March 8th, 2 PM : Artist Talk with Coulter Fussell

April 4th, 5 - 9 PM: First Friday Closing Reception

Coulter Fussell’s latest exhibition, Gold Can Stay, presents new upholsteries that capture the poetry, mystery, humor, and danger of contemporary youth in rural landscapes. Using her teenage sons and their friends as muses and collaborators, Fussell transforms everyday moments—late-night parking lot gatherings, afterschool sunlit drives, and midnight roman candle wars—into soft relief sculptures.

By printing Snapchat stills onto translucent chiffons and layering them over vibrant fabrics, she creates immersive textile works that blend nostalgia with the immediacy of digital storytelling. Gold Can Stay marks the first expansion of her crowd-sourced textile practice into the realm of digital photography.

This exhibition follows Pillow Talk at The Atlanta Contemporary (2024) and leads into Hot Water at The Bo Bartlett Center later in 2025. In 2026, Fussell’s work will be celebrated in The Proving Ground at The Mississippi Museum of Art—the first museum survey of her work—supported by a $100K grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation.

Experience this bold new body of work at ARTS Southeast before it all unfolds.

Smyrna, GA

February 2025

Li Hui Huang was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan and recently moved to Smyrna, GA. She received her MFA in Performance from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. Li Hui Huang’s work in performance, video, and installation illustrates the complexity of various relationships and boundaries among people. Li Hui has attended Residencies at Treasure Hill Artist Village (Taipei) and Apartment of Art (Munich). Along with solo exhibitions, her works have been shown in several group exhibitions in Taiwan (including 2016 Taipei Biennial), US, Germany and Mexico.

During her Residency, Li Hui will continue work on 910 HIGHVIEW, the final work in her family soap opera series. It focuses on how historical/national narrations are formed and passed through family from the post-cold-world period through the present. Li Hui’s process is not only based on the dynamic among various ideologies and life experiences, but also shaped by unconsciously transformed and selected memories. By collecting and recomposing the daily-life fragments, the artist catches a reflection of that obscure yet sometimes even paradoxical process.

“The home where my husband grew up is located at 910 HIGHVIEW in Georgia. If my family came together because of the White Terror in Taiwan, then his family was formed along the development of the American aviation industry after World War II. Both situations have shown the impact of the Cold War. Sometimes there are tensions between us caused by our different interpretations of historical events. Take the B-29 as an example. In the United States it is a badge of war achievement, but in Taiwan it is a symbol of disaster from the sky. We each have an unseen inheritance from the war experiences of our predecessors. What lies behind the disagreements are the emotional and identity projection we each obtained from our own society and family, and I am trying to recognize them through this project.” 

– Li Hui Huang

​​The Sulfur Street Fair is seeking vendors for May First Friday - Friday, May 2nd from 5 - 9PM in conjunction with First Fridays in Starland!

DEADLINE TO APPLY: April 4th Please only apply if you are available for the event date.

SELECTED VENDORS NOTIFIED: April 7th Selected vendors will be emailed at the address provided and sent a payment link upon acceptance.

PAYMENT DUE: April 11th, 2025

Learn more and apply at https://artssoutheast.org/street-fair-app

Join us on January 15, 2025 from 5 – 7PM at Laney Contemporary as we embark on the first of many events to raise awareness and funds for ARTS Southeast’s forthcoming Ossabaw Island Artist Residency.

For the last fifteen years, Betsy Cain has spent countless hours meditating on the horizons and grasslands, sawtooth palms and hammocks on Ossabaw Island as a way to honor Ossabaw matriarch, Eleanor “Sandy” Torrey West, and the impact she and the island have had on Cain’s life. These en plein air meditations have resulted in over 100 lyrical drawings made in ink.

To further honor West’s legacy, all proceeds from the exhibition benefit ARTS Southeast’s upcoming Ossabaw Island Artist Residency Program.

Betsy Cain: Ossabaw Meditations, 2010 – 2024, is on display from January 15 – 25, 2025.

“I never thought I could live in a city – the oppressive weight of steel and concrete closes in and depresses me. Savannah showed me a different kind of city. One that had all the conveniences but none of the heavy, towering monstrosities of the places that the word ‘city’ typically conjures in your mind. Savannah is a city that must constantly fight for space with the vegetation. A month unattended, and the vines and grasses will overtake the temporary signs of man. Our Wild City highlights the beauty and balance of nature and our city. Each scene is a collage of painted wooden cutouts, capturing where nature meets city.”

– Adrienne Berkland

About the Artist

Adrienne Berkland is a Savannah-based artist who works primarily in acrylic and gouache. Adrienne moved to Savannah in 2014 to coach collegiate lacrosse. After six years of being surrounded by artists and the beauty that is Savannah, she stepped away from coaching to pursue a life of art. First, as an art teacher and now as a full time artist. She enjoys painting Savannah scenes and portraits and when not in her studio at ARTS Southeast, she can be found busking at Forsyth Park.

Our Wild City will be on display in the Drive Thru Art Box at Green Truck Pub from January 13th – April 8th, 2025 and can be viewed any time of day or night.

Burlington, VT

January 2025

Jon Roberts graduated from Bates College with a double major in Physics and Studio Art. Roberts has worked throughout Africa, Asia, Central America, and Europe. He co-founded Burlington’s first South End Art Hop, one of Vermont’s largest art events. During his Residency, Roberts will install sculptures around the city and in nearby natural locations, photographing these placements to display in the studio. His project will include both the sculptures and their images in situ, offering a layered experience of the works’ evolution in relation to their environmental contexts.

ARTS Southeast is excited to announce the call for applications for the Incubator Artist Initiative, which provides a local artist with a free studio at ARTS Southeast for one year in 2025. We're now accepting proposals for this unique opportunity, aimed at supporting Savannah-based emerging artists.

Learn more and apply: www.artssoutheast.org/iai

Located in the heart of Savannah’s Starland District at Sulfur Studios, ARTS Southeast’s homebase, the ON::VIEW Artist Residency provides a free, high visibility studio space for an artist to complete a new project, to continue an in-progress endeavor, or to conduct research exploring conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. The studio’s large windows look out onto Bull Street, the district’s main thoroughfare, allowing the artists’ work to be on view to the community at all times. Visitors and passersby on the sidewalk witness the artists’ process as it unfolds in real time, seeing all the steps involved from concept to final execution. Community events like workshops, performances, public art projects and artist talks offer creative ways to interact with the public. The ON::View Residency supports artists from across the globe, working in all media.

Deadline to apply: Sunday, February 23rd, 2025 by 11:59PM

First round notifications: Saturday, March 1st, 2025

Interviews with select applicants: Wednesday, March 5th – Saturday, March 8th, 2025

Final notifications: Monday, March 10th, 2025

Learn more here!

ARTS Southeast is pleased to announce our Spring 2025 Supporter Call for Entry: “Begin Again”

What does it mean to experience perpetual becoming? How does your art confront change, continuity, impermanence, and time? For this Supporter Call for Entry, artists are invited to share their freshest work from 2024, setting the stage for their direction in 2025. Share a new series; works that express resilience or even frustration; works resulting from disciplined repetition and sustained practice. Written descriptions accompanying the work are highly encouraged. Begin again!

Begin Again will be on display in the Supporter Gallery at ARTS Southeast from January 30th – May 17th, 2025, with an Opening Reception on Friday, February 7th from 5 – 9PM and a Closing Reception on Friday, May 2nd  from 5 – 9PM in conjunction with First Fridays in Starland.

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: January 18th, 2025 by 11:59PM.

More information can be found here.

ARTS Southeast is pleased to present Sing the Body Electric, a Duo Exhibition of new works by Jon Witzky and Ivy Anderson, on display at the Thompson Savannah from October through December, 2024.

artssoutheast.org/singthebodyelectric

William Franco and Miki Seifert are the co-founders and artistic directors of With Lime, an artist collective that creates performances, installations and projections that explore the interface between cultures and/or technology. As part of their vision of the arts as a force for personal and societal transformation, they conduct research to expand performative methodologies and practices. Franco and Seifert’s artistic multilinguality allows the work of With Lime to cross the borders between visual, media, dance and theatre arts. With Lime’s work has been in galleries, museums and film festivals around the world.

During their Residency, Franco and Seifert will continue their project Azucar/Sugar, which explores the connection between the globalization of sugar and colonization. Drawn toward this work through Franco's Zapotec and Mixtec culture, they are interested in researching Savannah's history of refining sugar, and Georgia’s role in the sugar industry in the Americas. As their Residency project will align with Dia de Muertos, they will create an ofrenda with sugar skulls in the Residency studio.

Brydie O’Connor is a Kansas-born, NY based filmmaker and archivist. Her award-winning work focuses on women-driven and queer stories. Brydie’s work has been supported by The Future of Film Is Female, Hot Docs, Dok.Leipzig, Ji.hlava IDFF, NYFA, NYSCA, Brooklyn Arts Council, DocsBarcelona, ArtsKC, and the Stonewall Foundation, and has screened at places such as The Museum of Modern Art, BFI, & DOC NYC. Most recently, Brydie was selected as the recipient of the Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator with her debut feature documentary, and she is developing two new projects in the UFO Short Film Lab. She is a graduate of The George Washington University, and has developed her work at both the Arts Letters & Numbers Residency (2022) and the Provincetown Film Society Queer Filmmakers Residency (2024). She is currently in production on her debut feature documentary on pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, executive produced by Killer Films. 

During her Residency, Brydie will continue her work on THE ROAMING CENTER FOR MEMORY, a piece from digitized archival elements that show queer life in the South and in the Midwest, blended with oral histories of queer folks reflecting on their own histories in real time. In the studio, she will present video vignettes of archival videos blended with contemporary oral histories, along with imagery of how the archival is being digitized in the present. This will consist of experimental video pieces that reference how the past and process leads us into a future that includes a broader scope of queer history. Brydie will also host archiving workshops on how to digitize and create your own archival collections, both as an artist and an individual who would like to create alternative histories through archiving.