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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IMPACT Vol. 4 No. 1 features:
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!
Publishers: Emily Earl & Jon Witzky; Editors/Design: Emily Earl & Jon Witzky; Photo Director: Emily Earl; Events Editor & Production Assistant: Samantha Mack
9 x 12”, 96 pages. Published by ARTS Southeast, May, 2025.
Vol. 4 No. 1 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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IMPACT Vol. 3 No. 2 features:
Jeffrey Gibson, 2024 US Representative at the Venice Biennale in conversation with Miranda Kyle, sociocultural activist, advocate and Curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Jiha Moon, winner of the prestigious 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, and co-curator of the upcoming exhibition, emotion opening at Laney Contemporary this Fall, in Conversation with Sarah Cherry, Assistant Director, Laney Contemporary
Anthony Akinbola, a rising star whose work can be seen at Sean Kelly NYC, Night Gallery LA, Guggenheim NYC, and now at SCAD MOA this fall, 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!
Editors: Emily Earl & Jon Witzky; Design: Emily Earl & Jon Witzky; Photo Director: Emily Earl; Events Editor & Production Assistant: Samantha Mack
9 x 12”, 96 pages. Published by ARTS Southeast, October, 2024.
Vol. 3 No. 2 is made possible with support from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and 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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IMPACT Vol. 3 No. 1 features:
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, Gordon Rabut, and more!
Editors: Emily Earl & Jon Witzky; Design: Emily Earl & Jon Witzky; Photo Director: Emily Earl; Events Editor & Production Assistant: Samantha Mack
9 x 12”, 96 pages. Published by ARTS Southeast, June, 2024. Vol. 3 No. 1 is made possible with support from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
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IMPACT Vol. 2 No. 2 features:
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!
Editors: Emily Earl & Jon Witzky; Design: Emily Earl & Jon Witzky; Photo Director: Emily Earl; Events Editor & Production Assistant: Samantha Mack
9 x 12”, 94 pages. Published by ARTS Southeast, November, 2023. Vol. 2 No. 2 is made possible with support from the Savannah Community Foundation & the Emerging Leadership Council.
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Vol. 5 No. 1 features:
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 recently premiered in the exhibition Off the Coast of Paradise: Artists and Ossabaw Island, 1961–Now at Telfair’s Jepson Center
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 exhibition After Stone, After Ruins presented across multiple galleries in 2026, including: Cleo the Project Space (Savannah, GA) and Atlanta Center for Photography (Atlanta, GA)
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. After its High debut, the exhibition travels to Cornell University, the Norton Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.
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. They discuss Ossabaw’s past and ARTS Southeast’s upcoming Ossabaw Island Residency, which launches this fall!
Photo essay by Josh Aronson whose Florida Boys work has been recently shown at MOCA NoMi, NSU Art Museum, Lensculture New York, Hambidge Hive, ICA Miami, Filter Photo, and more – Josh is also a 2026 ON::View Artist-in-Residence at ARTS Southeast
Publishers: Emily Earl & Jon Witzky; Editors/Design: Emily Earl & Jon Witzky; Photo Director: Emily Earl; Events Editor & Production Assistant: Samantha Mack
9 x 12 inches. Published by ARTS Southeast, May, 2026.
Vol. 5 No. 1 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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Vol. 5 No. 1 officially releases on May 21st at Laney Contemporary. Local web orders may be picked up at ARTS Southeast anytime during business hours: TH - SUN, 12 - 5PM, beginning May 22nd. Please allow 2 weeks to ship.