IMPACT Magazine is Savannah’s only publication dedicated exclusively to arts and culture. Designed as a highly visual, full-color, 9×12” glossy magazine, each semi-annual issue showcases some of the most compelling artists, writers, and cultural voices working in the South today. Each edition features in-depth artist interviews and long-form writing on art, culture, and identity, alongside poetry, fiction, comics, music and film reviews, and more. Grounded in Savannah and outward-looking by design, IMPACT celebrates the Southeast as a site of serious creative production and cultural conversation.
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In our cover feature Melissa Messina talks with Krista Clark, Sonya Yong James, and Vadis Turner about their project presented at the 2nd Annual Atlanta Art Fair – Katie Jentleson, the HIGH Museum’s Senior Curator of American Art explores the work of visionary artist Minnie Evans – NY-based artist Summer Wheat talks about her vibrant textured works with SCAD Museum of Art curator Brittany Richmond – 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 – 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
Birmingham-based multimedia artist and curator Amy Pleasant in conversation with Noah Reyes – Alan Rothschild, founder of Columbus GA-based photo collection, The Do Good Fund – Extended photo spread highlighting The Do Good Fund photo collection, featuring: Gordon Parks, Baldwin Lee, Mark Steinmetz, Maude Schuyler Clay, Brandon Thibodeaux, Jill Frank, and more – Celebrated GA-based self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe, as remembered by Xenia Zed – Daniel S. Palmer, Chief Curator at the SCAD Museum of Art – Award-winning writer, oral historian, and teaching artist Trelani Michelle interviews Joshua Lindesy, Daniel White and Randall Patrick, founders of The Savannah Photo Club – With contributions from local and regional artists, authors and tastemakers: Emily Llamazales, Michael Shepherd, Gordon Rabut and more!
Jeffrey Gibson, 2024 US Representative at the Venice Biennale in conversation with Miranda Kyle, sociocultural activist, and advocate – Jiha Moon, winner of the prestigious 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in Conversation with Sarah Cherry, Assistant Director, Laney Contemporary – Anthony Akinbola in conversation with Haley Clouser, Assistant Curator at SCAD MOA – Savannah-based artist and curator Will Penny – Miami-based multi-disciplinary artist Gonzalo Hernandez – With contributions from local and regional artists, authors and tastemakers: Miriam Brown Spiers, Ryan Madson, Joshua Lindsey, Gordon Rabut and more!
Mississippi-based textile artist Coulter Fussell in conversation with Cleo the Project Space Director Jeanette McCune – Artist Cammie Staros interviewed by SCAD MOA curator Ben Tollefson – Florida-based multidisciplinary artist Jeremiah Jossim in conversation with art historian Lisa Jaye Young – Nashville painter John Paul Kesling – Brooklyn/Savannah based photographer Anna Ottum – Author Trelani Michelle interviews Kamilah KaMaat, founder of Sankofa House – Keshawn Spellman shares his favorite Savannah events – Dog Days Round Up with music promoter Kyle Brown – Other featured artists include: Will Penny, Marcus Kenney, Faran Riley, Chris Moss, and Gordon Rabut
Savannah legends Roosevelt Brownlee & Hanif Haynes – Artist Mike Williams – Local artist & curator Ben Tollefson – Atlanta's Leia Genis – Joan Mitchell Foundation award recipient James Williams II – London- and Berlin-based Black trans artist & game developer Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley – with contributions from Matt Hebermehl, Joshua Alexander, Brittany Richmond, Trelani Michelle, Jessica Leigh Lebos, Lisa D. Watson and so much more!
Ariel Felton takes us on a tour around artist Jerome Meadows' historic ice house turned artist studio on Waters Avenue – Brienne Walsh spends an afternoon in Betsy Cain’s teeming Thunderbolt studio talking about Betsy’s life and work – Jessica Leigh Lebos guides us on a stroll down Bull Street in Savannah –Atlanta’s site-specific artist and recent Venice Biennale exhibitor Megan Mosholder – Fly fisherman, Collard King, and painter of massive interior landscapes, Michi Meko – Nomadic artists Monica Jane Frisell & Adam Scher – Savannah artist Gordon Rabut – Miami’s Carlos Estevez – with drawings from Britt Spencer, Necco-waffle, Ugis Berzins, Lomaho Kretzmann and more.
Savannah’s very own Suzanne Jackson – An exploration of Afro-Futurism with Jennifer Mack-Watkins – Avant Gardener Lisa D. Watson – Famed Savannah sign painter Jimmie Williams – The elusive Ryan Graveface – New Orleans printmaker John Alleyne, and more!
