SPONSOR ARTS SOUTHEAST’S 2026 EXHIBITION SEASON

ARTS Southeast is currently seeking sponsors to make targeted contributions in support of our 2026 Exhibition Season in The Ellis Gallery. By sponsoring this program, you’ll help us present bold, relevant contemporary art, and support exhibiting artists and guest curators directly through artist stipends and honoraria. This is a fantastic way to ensure that Savannah continues to be a hub for art and culture and for you or your business to be recognized as a supporter of the arts!

We host 4 exhibitions annually in The Ellis Gallery. Each exhibition includes Opening, Continuing, and Closing Receptions in conjunction with Starland First Fridays, VIP Exhibition Previews, as well as Artist Talks, and other programming that invites deeper engagement with the work on view.

2026 Exhibition Season

ON::VIEW REVUE

Feb 6 – Mar 14, 2026

This annual group exhibition celebrates the Artists-in-Residents of 2025

Featured artists: Jon Roberts, Li Hui Huang, Ainaz Alipour, Jana Marie Cariddi, Davion Alston, Melinda Borysevicz, Noah Reyes, and Isaac McCaslin

Featured image courtesy of Jana Marie Cariddi

PRESTON ORR

Apr 3 – Jun 13, 2026

Preston Orr developed a distinct approach to mixed-media collage, exploring the conceptual power of unconventional materials. Each element in his work carries its own history and character, adding layers of meaning beyond visual composition. His work invites viewers to consider not just what is seen, but what is felt, remembered, and transformed.

Rooted, Curated by Lisa Jaye Young

July 3 – Sept 12, 2026

The kitchen table is often the place from which artistic consciousness emerges. The domestic environment, its textures, smells, objects, photographs, and even detritus are central to burgeoning creative awareness. The history of art is full of artists who later in life began to realize that this passage from childhood to studio began with a family experience. As a child my own aunt used to send us pastels and fabric and wood fragments, fragments of her own Bay Area studio and woodshop that ignited kitchen table creative energies, transforming the refrigerator into the gallery space. Borrowing the phrase “the maternal inscription” - or the way that motherhood has been imprinted on art history - this exhibition considers family more broadly as embedded subject within materials and creative practice.