Join us for the Launch Party for IMPACT Magazine’s Newest Issue, Vol. 5. No. 1. Celebrate with us at Laney Contemporary!

IMPACT Vol. 5 No. 1 features:

Gregory Harris, the High Museum of Art’s Curator of Photography speaks with photographer Mimi Plumb on the occasion of Blazing Light, the artist’s first museum exhibition that brings together three bodies of work that contemplate the anxieties of contemporary American culture. After its High debut, the exhibition travels to: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University; the Norton Museum of Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.

Erin Dunn, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Telfair Museums interviews artist and filmmaker Allison Janae Hamilton about her upcoming narrative short, Venus of Ossabaw, which premiers in the exhibition Off the Coast of Paradise: Artists and Ossabaw Island, 1961–Now at Telfair’s Jepson Center this spring

Art historian Lisa Jaye Young explores the history and lineage of barrier island protectors – from Coosaponakeesa (AKA Mary Musgrove) in the 1700s to Eleanor ‘Sandy’ West in the 21st century.

Award winning writer, oral historian and teaching artist Trelani Michelle interviews multimedia artist Le’Andra LeSeur about her three part exhibition After Stone, After Ruins presented across three galleries in 2026: Cleo the Project Space (Savannah, GA); Atlanta Center for Photography (Atlanta, GA); and Swivel Gallery (New York City).

Curator Melissa Messina in conversation with Beryl Gilothwest – Deputy Director of Research and Exhibitions at the Calder Foundation (New York), co-curator of Off the Coast of Paradise, and grandson of the late Eleanor ‘Sandy’ West

Photo essay by Josh Aronson whose recent exhibition, Florida Boys was on display at Miami’s Baker Hall Gallery – Josh also joins ARTS Southeast’s 2026 ON::View Artist Residency cohort this spring

And more!