SCAD Museum of Art: "'The Vastness is Bearable Only Through Love:" Ken Gun Min
Jan
24
to Jun 22

SCAD Museum of Art: "'The Vastness is Bearable Only Through Love:" Ken Gun Min

Epic in their explosive color yet confined within painted frames, the large-scale mixed-media paintings of Ken Gun Min capture the paradoxes of our beautifully complex world, where utopian idealism collides with dystopian realities. Through lush landscapes and tender portraits, Min orchestrates sublime scenes — both real and imagined — that draw from his experiences as a queer Korean immigrant in the U.S. Focusing on the emotion of his parafictional stories, Min showcases the moment of beauty before destruction, stirring feelings of uneasiness and awe. Ultimately, his works highlight the importance of seeing life in its entirety and remind viewers to offer gentleness to all journeying through this vast existence.

On raw canvases treated with gesso and Japanese bookbinding glue, Min applies a unique cross-cultural blend of materials, such as Western oils, Korean pigments, and hand-embroidered beads, that address his transition from South Korea to the U.S. and challenge the boundaries of painting and craft. These textural compositions, inspired by historical European paintings and East Asian textiles, evoke Min’s “queer utopia,” underpinned by the repressed histories and urban legends of Los Angeles. Depictions of animals such as lions, peacocks, and moths, adorned with gems and facing their demise, serve as allegories for the gentrification of local queer Asian hubs and as anthropomorphic symbols of “cruisers” or gay sex workers, whose lives are often at risk in their profession. While Min’s portrayals of male figures wading in water also allude to the tragic homophobic murders and disappearances of transgender people at a nearby lake, his centering of intimate, muscular men of color brings visibility to queer communities and offers new conceptions of masculinity, sexuality, and race.

Jan. 24 - June 22, 2025

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Ology Gallery: "Salt, Soda, Submerged"
Feb
2
to Jun 29

Ology Gallery: "Salt, Soda, Submerged"

CALL FOR ENTRIES: https://www.ologygallery.com/submissionsaltsodasubmerged

DEADLINE: Saturday, April 12, 2025, 12 AM EST

Salt, soda, submerged... oh my. Alternative firing and “painting” methods will be explored in this juried exhibit featuring soda and salt fired ceramics and the submerged / emersed canvases of Henry Dean. Juror Samantha Hostert

MAY 17TH - JUNE 28TH, 2025

OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, MAY 17TH, 5:30-8 PM

CLOSING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JUNE 28TH, 5:30-8 PM

(IMAGE COURTESY OF SAMANTHA HOSTERT)

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SCAD Museum of Art: "Heave:" Samuel Ross
Feb
17
to Jul 6

SCAD Museum of Art: "Heave:" Samuel Ross

British Caribbean artist and designer Samuel Ross creates works in a range of media through an exploratory analysis of raw material and functionality. In 2015, Ross founded the fashion label A-COLD-WALL*, rethinking streetwear through meticulous construction and bold, Brutalist silhouettes. In 2019, he established SR_A SR_A, an atelier that engineers experiences for the body and mind, balancing a utilitarian sensibility with an eye toward the future. The artist’s industrial aesthetic has manifested both in his own work and in collaborations with major brands including LVMH, Nike, and Apple.

In HEAVE, Ross presents several distinct but connected bodies of work, anchored by two of his rarely shown abstract paintings. Sculptural seating exemplifies the artist’s insatiable curiosity for the potential and limits of material, exploring the intersections of Eurocentric Modernist forms and West African furniture design. Four hand-painted utility jackets showcase the overlapping of Ross’ intuitive mark-making and functional forms, while gestural process sketches representing each of the disciplines presented in the exhibition offer viewers further insight into his multifaceted creative process.

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SCAD Museum of Art: "'The Shape of Survival:" Diedrick Brackens
Feb
24
to Jul 7

SCAD Museum of Art: "'The Shape of Survival:" Diedrick Brackens

Diedrick Brackens creates woven tapestries that blend a cosmic array of allegories, historical narratives, and autobiographical memories into compelling forms. In The Shape of Survival, Brackens brings his work into intimate dialogue with the American South, drawing on the region’s history of quilting and influences from myriad historic artists, most notably Aaron Douglas. Brackens’ use of hand-dyed cotton acknowledges the weighty legacy of this material, honoring its past while transmuting it into lyrical, awe-inspiring artworks.

The Shape of Survival takes on additional resonance in the museum’s Walter and Linda Evans Center for African American Studies within a structure that originally served as a Central of Georgia Railway depot where cotton and other commodities produced by enslaved Black labor were transported and stored. Yet the poetic and often ecstatic gestures of Brackens’ figures offer a sense of joy and revelry, expressing a powerful engagement with the richness of both African American cultural inheritance and queer identity. Together, these works propose conversations across the centuries on the power of art and its potential for transformation and growth.

Feb. 24 - July 7, 2025

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SCAD Museum of Art: "Zanele Muholi"
Feb
24
to Jul 6

SCAD Museum of Art: "Zanele Muholi"

SCAD deFINE ART honoree Zanele Muholi is a boundary-pushing artist esteemed for their work exploring notions of Black identity, community, and advocacy. A self-described visual activist, Muholi prioritizes the depiction of marginalized people from queer communities in both their home country of South Africa and around the globe. Through striking photographs, film, and sculpture, the artist honors the complex lived experiences of Black individuals, underscoring the vital need for visibility and agency.

Muholi’s exhibition includes several landmark bodies of work including Somnyama Ngonyama, translated from Zulu as Hail the Dark Lioness, an ongoing series of self-portraits that cast the artist as the central figure in sumptuous black-and-white images. In these staged confrontations, Muholi dons everyday items like clothespins, rugs, and plastic bags, which transform through unexpected arrangements, reflecting both personal and collective narratives of race and body politics.

The exhibition also features selections from Brave Beauties, highlighting trans women and nonbinary people in empowered poses, and Faces and Phases, a series of portraits that respond to the violence and discrimination faced by Black lesbians in South Africa. A never-before-seen group of self-portraits continues the artist’s Somnyama Ngonyama series in lightbox format. Through these works, Muholi reenvisions Black queer representation and challenges pervasive stereotypes, offering an empathetic and emboldened perspective of the human condition.

Feb. 24 - July 6, 2025

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Jepson Center: "Primary: Artists Working in Red, Yellow, and Blue"
Feb
28
to Jul 27

Jepson Center: "Primary: Artists Working in Red, Yellow, and Blue"

Red. Yellow. Blue. For centuries, this trio has impacted artistic practice and culture on a global scale. Collectively known as primary colors, they serve as the foundation of color theory in art. Defined by a set of colors that, when mixed, form the basis of all other colors, primary colors are the building blocks of the color spectrum. This bold triad can evoke emotion, convey messages, and influence our perceptions of the world, and it presents endless possibilities for creativity and expression. Its distinctiveness has inspired renowned artists like Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian, and even entire art movements, like De Stijl and Pop Art.

Drawn from Telfair Museums’ permanent collection, Primary: Artists Working in Red, Yellow, and Blue explores how artists have utilized primary colors in adventurous ways to elicit brilliant experiences. Featuring works by Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, and Joan Miró, these energetic and dynamic compositions introduce viewers to the expansive possibilities of a simple palette.

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SCAD Museum of Art: "'Raíces/Roots:" Raul De Lara
Mar
1
to Jul 6

SCAD Museum of Art: "'Raíces/Roots:" Raul De Lara

New York-based Mexican artist Raul De Lara carves uncanny, playful wooden sculptures imbued with personal and culturally significant stories to celebrate and foster a deeper understanding of the immigrant experience. Through traditional and innovative woodworking techniques, De Lara combines forms from nature, furniture design, and Mexican and American material culture to examine notions of nationality and identity. Championing a practice of “storytelling through woodworking,” De Lara weaves magical realism and symbolic items, like zompantle wood and Tz’ite beans, into his works to convey memories of his upbringing, Mesoamerican legends and rituals, and even paranormal encounters.

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SCAD Museum of Art: "Vox:" Jónsi
Mar
1
to Jun 30

SCAD Museum of Art: "Vox:" Jónsi

Inspired by his love of nature, artist and musician Jónsi creates sculptures and installations that not only explore the ways in which people experience sound but also encourage new ways of listening. As the lead singer of the experimental post-rock band Sigur Rós and the “nose” for his family’s perfumerie Fischersund, Jónsi incorporates his own distinctive voice as well as custom fragrances into his artworks to incite wonder and evoke the feeling of being transported to another place and time.

With Vox, Jónsi presents an immersive environment that centers the most universal and original musical instrument — the human voice. The installation translates Jónsi’s otherworldly falsetto into light frequencies, triggering LED panels throughout the gallery that surround viewers as they are enveloped in a grounding scent. Through a complex choreography of senses, Vox offers an atmospheric, visceral encounter that reconnects body and mind with the world around us, while also providing a spiritual respite from everyday life to ponder the power of our innate form of communication.

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Jepson Center: "Stay Awhile: Interiors in Art"
Mar
1
to Apr 1

Jepson Center: "Stay Awhile: Interiors in Art"

Artists depict interior settings in many ways. Some focus on them as the subject of their work, while others use them to create settings and backdrops to inform a scene. Often, they are rich in detail and ripe for further visual exploration. Stay Awhile: Interiors in Art encourages visitors to thoroughly ponder a selection of works from Telfair’s permanent collection, including paintings, drawings, and photographs, that feature a variety of views of the indoors. Rather than emphasize a specific narrative, the text accompanying each work of art offers the visitor entry points for looking more closely at elements of a composition, encouraging them to form their own ideas or discuss them with fellow museumgoers.

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SCAD Museum of Art: "Far from Near:" Christina Quarles
Mar
10
to Jul 6

SCAD Museum of Art: "Far from Near:" Christina Quarles

Exploring the foundational importance of drawing to Christina Quarles’ painting practice, Far from Near focuses on works on paper in ink and acrylic that inform her distinctive approach to representing identity and the human body. Quarles’ early “100 Series” drawings marked a pivotal juncture in her career, helping to define her creative vision and voice as an artist. A formative body in their own right, these drawings and subsequent works on paper interrogate the formal elements of the body and the “illusory boundaries that demarcate the self,” while also incorporating text to reference evocative lyrics, phrases, and overheard conversations. Featuring expressive, almost effortless gestural lines, these rarely seen works showcase Quarles’ deft ability to manipulate figures and space, further solidifying her place as one of the most important artists of our time.

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SCAD Museum of Art: "Bivalves no Booty:" Corrina Goutos
Mar
28
to Jun 23

SCAD Museum of Art: "Bivalves no Booty:" Corrina Goutos

Corrina Goutos fuses fragments of mass-produced objects with raw natural materials in conceptual sculptures and wearable artworks that resemble fossils from the future. Goutos calls this practice “anthrosmithing,” in which she transforms everyday items, such as outdated technology, releasing them from their utility and giving them new life that highlights how they shape identity. In Bivalves no Booty, the artist features two recent series, The BlossomVerse and Vestigial Trait Bait, that explore the tension between individuality and interconnectedness in our consumer-driven society.

In The BlossomVerse, Goutos reconfigures porcelain shards and electronic waste into distorted artifacts that challenge capitalist ideals of perfection and subvert the corporate design trend of biomimicry. In Vestigial Trait Bait, Goutos merges ancient shells with industrial hardware to create wearable relics that blend the history of adornment with the concept of evolutionary appendages, reflecting how technology has become an extension of the self. Through these hybrid works, the artist investigates our sentimental attachments and choices to discard or preserve, revealing how objects carry and transmit meaning over time. By melding technological remnants with geological remains, Goutos creates new totems of self-expression that evoke nostalgia and belonging, while also embracing the uncanny beauty of growth, decay, and metamorphosis.

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Jepson Center: "Tidelands:" Photographs by Parker Stewart
Apr
4
to Dec 7

Jepson Center: "Tidelands:" Photographs by Parker Stewart

Tideland is an exhibition of black and white photographs by Savannah-based photographer Parker Stewart (b. 1992). Taken between 2020 and 2024, these evocative photographs document the coast of Georgia by transporting the viewer into the visceral and primordial atmosphere of the barrier islands and inland waterways. The photographs show how the air hangs heavy on this ancient coastline, a place where the sea and the land entwine in an eternal embrace. Fog shrouded marshscapes, summer thunderstorms, dockhouses held up by toothpick pilings and details of old wooden shrimping trawlers are just some of the moments recorded by Stewart. These photographs depict a landscape of quiet grandeur, a place where the past whispers from the trees and the future is constantly being written on the tides.

This exhibition is part of the #art912 initiative, a platform dedicated to raising the visibility and vitality of artists living and working in Savannah. Tideland is organized by Telfair Museums and curated by Erin Dunn, curator of modern and contemporary art. 

Parker Stewart is a photographer based in Savannah, Georgia. A native of North Carolina, Stewart arrived in Savannah in 2011 to study photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Stewart’s work is focused on the notion of Place, and he uses photography as a tool to record the moments and scenes that move him the most. Currently Stewart is making photographs of the landscape and culture of the wild Georgia coastline and the rural Savannah River Basin. As well as working on extensive bodies of work in Coastal Maine, Western North Carolina, the Oregon Coast, and the Mojave Desert.

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Jepson Center: "In Reflection: Contemporary Art and Ourselves"
Apr
25
to Jun 25

Jepson Center: "In Reflection: Contemporary Art and Ourselves"

In Reflection: Contemporary Art and Ourselves is a long-term evolving installation of Telfair Museums’ modern and contemporary collection featuring paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, and mixed and time-based media from 1945 to the present day. In addition to the expansive historical context and aesthetics, the wide variety of artworks on view encourages us to consider the artist’s role in mirroring individual and collective experiences and identities through these objects. These reflections are broadly explored as personal, social, and cultural themes. The PERSONAL delves into the self, offering insight into the feelings and emotions invoked through the work. The SOCIAL looks critically at the world, tackling of-the-moment topics such as climate change, globalization, social activism, and politics. The CULTURAL takes a big picture view, grappling with history, religion, language, heritage, legacy, and land that are central to cultural customs and traditions.

The exhibition also features select loans of provocative artworks by cutting-edge contemporary artists in the United States and beyond. These additions remind us that art is never static but continues to personally, socially, and culturally respond to the current moment. Offering another point of view, audio clips by artists, art professionals, and community members react to select works and encourage multiple interpretations. As we navigate the exhibition and learn about the works, we can ponder our own perspectives, unveiling a deeper understanding of ourselves and our relationships with the world around us.

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Jepson Center: "Craft Along the Coast"
Apr
28
to Sep 25

Jepson Center: "Craft Along the Coast"

People in Savannah and the greater coastal Georgia and South Carolina region have handcrafted objects for generations to fill the needs of furnishing their homes, pursuing new artistic endeavors and creating products to sell in a range of markets. For this reason, these works often incorporate locally available materials and reflect many cultural values. They offer a range of insights into the history of artmaking in this area.

The new Craft along the Coast galleries feature works from Telfair’s permanent collection that date from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. Gallery 1 presents examples of woodworking, ceramics, and painting, while Gallery 2 focuses on Savannah’s silversmithing traditions. Both galleries tell stories of markets and craft legacies, helping to draw lines of continuity through a dynamic history.

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Photopoint Gallery: Antoine de Villiers: "The Art of Healing"
May
1
to Jul 18

Photopoint Gallery: Antoine de Villiers: "The Art of Healing"

Art has the power to expose, to connect, and ultimately to heal. In her upcoming exhibition, The Art of Healing: A retrospective of six years in Richmond Hill, Antoine de Villiers presents more than just a body of work, she offers a profound window into the emotional terrain of belonging, resilience, and transformation.

On view 2025 May 1-July 18 at Photopoint Gallery

Opening reception & Artist Talk
for women… 2025 May 8 / 6-8 pm

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Cleo the Project Space: "Impressed:" Ben Tollefson and Abby Edwards
May
8
to Oct 1

Cleo the Project Space: "Impressed:" Ben Tollefson and Abby Edwards

Cleo the Project Space is pleased to present Impressed with work by Ben Tollefson and Abby Edwards. This duo uses fantasy to heighten ideas of connection, memory and self reflection found through pop culture and societal impressions.

Edwards’s sculptural work combs through childhood iconography during the ‘90s to revisit play with shape and design. The reference to Memphis Design (found in moments with Tollefson’s work as well) is an invocation of brightly stylized compositions with a rejection of muted aesthetics. This adds humor and absurdity to her objects, found in the movement given to pencils, the size given to their grips and the overall palette given to the entire body of work, both highly patterned and textural. Edward’s work is a reminder of the importance of boundless expression through recollection, an activity that propels creativity in rebellion against a restrained maturity.

Embracing a wide range of motion, color and style as well, Tollefson’s paintings delve into reclaiming a sense of self through the idea of gender as a performance. Using drag and theater for inspiration, the work features self portraits clad in costuming to play with perceptions of a character. This play is a routine in forced illusion that pushes boundaries of gender ideology in favor of dynamic redefinitions. The paintings featuring sets with increased melodrama through the placement of curtains and lighting put the body of work into a feverish reality in which the acts of revealing and masking blur at center stage.

On Display at Thompson Savannah: 201 Port St, Savannah, GA, 31401

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Jepson Center Children's Museum: "The World of William O. Golding"
May
10
to Sep 25

Jepson Center Children's Museum: "The World of William O. Golding"

Telfair celebrates a new exhibition in its immersive Children’s Art Museum (CAM) that focuses on the fantastic art of Savannah artist and sailor William O. Golding (1874-1943). A host of new interactive experiences will lead children and adults through the remarkable story of this artist whose seafaring adventures of 49 years inspired his distinctive maritime drawings. New exhibits by FREN Inc. bring Golding’s pencil and crayon drawings to life in animations that visitors of all ages may control and interact with.

A popular 2022 Telfair Museums exhibition and book documented Golding’s colorful life and art. Golding, an African American seaman, was tricked aboard a sailing ship as a youth on Savannah’s waterfront in the 1880s. He eventually became a seasoned sailor who served in the U.S. Navy and worked on ships of all types from a whaler to a man o’ war. In the new CAM, Telfair’s collection of 23 Golding drawings serves as inspiration for interactive exhibits showcasing the ships depicted in his art, as well as ports near and far that he visited across the globe. An immersive LED wall will allow participants to guide their own animated ship to follow Golding’s journeys, exploring geography, weather, and maritime technology as seen by one of Savannah’s most unique artists.

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Local 11ten & Laney Contemporary: "Synergy"
May
14
to Aug 31

Local 11ten & Laney Contemporary: "Synergy"

Laney Contemporary and Local 11ten proudly present Synergy, a collaborative exhibition featuring the work of six artists: Betsy Cain, Amy Pleasant, Will Penny, Ansley West Rivers, Todd Schroeder, and Katherine Sandoz.

On view: May 14th - August 31st, 2025

Reception: June 6th | 5 - 6:30 pm

Location: Local 11ten

Curated by Jacob Edenfield.

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Jepson Center: "(Un)Grounded:" Raheleh Filsoofi
May
30
to Sep 25

Jepson Center: "(Un)Grounded:" Raheleh Filsoofi

(Un)Grounded, a solo exhibition of new work by Iranian-American artist Raheleh Filsoofi, is an immersive multimedia installation of ceramic vessels, sound, and video in conversation with the pottery and landscapes on view in The Moss Mystique: Southern Women and Newcomb Pottery. Over the past two years, Filsoofi has traveled to nine states in the Southeast to collect soil, including a visit to Savannah in April 2024. She has carefully archived, processed, and extracted the clay from these locations to form the physical and symbolic content of her multidisciplinary practice. Embracing her movement as a woman and immigrant within the region, (Un)Grounded considers the legacies of Newcomb Pottery through Filsoofi’s personal identity to engage with present-day perceptions surrounding southern identity, transience, and meanings of authenticity.

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Jepson Center: "The Moss Mystique:" Southern Women and Newcomb Pottery
May
30
to Sep 25

Jepson Center: "The Moss Mystique:" Southern Women and Newcomb Pottery

In 1895, administrators in the art department at the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in New Orleans, Louisiana, a women’s higher education institution that was joined to Tulane University, started a new commercial enterprise so that their students could put the skills they learned in their art and design courses into practice. A group of potters, mostly men, created the various objects out of clays sourced throughout the South, and women graduates of the art program painted them with images of flora and fauna. Newcomb Pottery quickly received praise throughout the US for the quality of its designs and the perceived authenticity of its representation of Southern regional identity, and these strong ties to location remain present today, long after the Pottery’s closure in 1939.

This exhibition focuses on the Newcomb potters’ material and chosen subjects, their relationships to regional identity, and the Pottery’s changing approaches to these subjects over time. Tasked with representing the region through their work, Newcomb designers earned a reputation for turning to their local environment for inspiration. This exhibition explores how designs that featured repeating, semi-abstract, and carefully selected plants such as waterlilies eventually transformed into muted landscapes of moss-draped oaks and cypresses, and the way these images matched romanticized visions of the South that were growing in the 20th century. The Moss Mystique asks visitors to reconsider their ideas about what makes a place unique. In an adjacent gallery, interdisciplinary artist Raheleh Filsoofi’s new multimedia exhibition (Un)Grounded will respond to the complexities of Newcomb pottery.

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Cedar House Gallery: "The Duality of Self:" Julia Roland
Jun
6
to Jun 27

Cedar House Gallery: "The Duality of Self:" Julia Roland

"The Duality of Self" 

The Duality of Self is a collection of recent paintings that loosely explores the themes of human complexity and conflicting emotions/behaviors within us all. The series is completed through various diptychs and paintings consisting of two figures expressing opposite points of contrast within one being. Inspired by the heightened attributes and stereotypes assigned to my character at birth as a Gemini, this exhibition pushes to encourage the malleability and fluidity of humans in general, regardless of astrological placements. Each change in thought, feeling, or expression is just as valuable as the next, all coinciding within you, even if they go unnoticed to the public eye. There is more than one way to be yourself.

Julia Roland 

Fine Artist 

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Cedar House Gallery: "Spectrum:" A Group Exhibition
Jun
6
to Jun 27

Cedar House Gallery: "Spectrum:" A Group Exhibition

First Friday Event! Join us in raising funds for Savannah Pride Center, supporting their mission to uplift and empower our community. During the opening reception of Spectrum in the main gallery, as well, as our resident artist Julia Roland will be opening their show in Gallery C showcasing the body of work created at Cedar House during her residency!

You do not want to miss this event the show will be curated by colors from the pride flag throughout the space. Plus studios will be open upstairs.

- Opening Reception: First Friday June 6th from 6pm to 9pm.

- Closing Reception: Friday June 27th 6pm to 9pm 

*This event is free and open to the public

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Gallery 2424: "Liminal Portrayals:" Sampy Sicada
Jun
20
to Jun 22

Gallery 2424: "Liminal Portrayals:" Sampy Sicada

Liminal Portrayals is a solo exhibition of drawings on paper in colored pencil, graphite, and charcoal by Sampy Sicada on view at Gallery 2424 from Friday, June 20-Sunday, June 22.

Sicada’s work reintegrates classical art language with the interconnectivity of the postmodern age. Art delves into emergent sincerity and is placed to regain art's liturgical mandate, particularly in the techno-personal society lacking cultural stalwarts to unite on.

This is a germane issue in America with its pretext for polarised politics, selective migration, and subsequent personality clusters. Savannah itself is rife with affluence and poverty, and Sicada himself has experienced homeless, living out of council houses in Manchester. This show aims to have value for all.

The exhibition is open June 20-22, 4-8pm.

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SCAD Museum of Art: "Fruits of Labor:" Summer Wheat
Jul
3
to Oct 6

SCAD Museum of Art: "Fruits of Labor:" Summer Wheat

In Fruits of Labor, Summer Wheat (SCAD M.F.A., painting, 2005) presents six richly textured paintings inspired by Greek mythology, animal archetypes, and astrology. A pair of totemic works featuring fruit–animal hybrids are flanked by multiple large-scale paintings that immerse viewers in a lush, harmonious world. In these scenes, Wheat portrays female figures as nurturers and cultivators lounging post-exertion, entwined with animals often associated with fear yet exuding calm and satisfaction. This new series expands Wheat’s practice of depicting women at work to their well-earned luxuriating that follows, insisting that moments of release, repose, and ease after collective effort are worthy of commemoration.

Wheat’s unique process begins with digital sketches, which she transforms into tapestry-like surfaces by piping acrylic paint through wire mesh. This labor-intensive technique yields composite images, embedding stylized characters within patterns, grids, and nets that reference folk traditions, sacred geometry, and digital systems. Inviting viewers to experience a dynamic interplay of depth and flatness, order and intuition, Wheat’s vivid, multilayered paintings are portals into alternate realms where the fruits of labor are fully relished.

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Gallery 2424: "333:" Featuring the works of Maxx Feist, Adrienne Berkland, and Isak Dove.
Jul
25
to Aug 17

Gallery 2424: "333:" Featuring the works of Maxx Feist, Adrienne Berkland, and Isak Dove.

Featuring the works of Maxx Feist, Adrienne Berkland, and Isak Dove.

On view July 25-August 17, 2025

Creation, maintenance, and destruction are cyclical patterns we all experience as individuals. While particular lives may look different, there can be strength and resilience that comes from being part of a community amidst uncertainty. Three Savannah-based artists have come together to explore how their combined creative processes can help them navigate their journeys through these phases of life. The exhibition considers how painters with distinct styles use three specific color palettes as a form of processing, a commentary on our current times, and as an act of resistance. They ask: “In this time of turmoil, how do we use our art to navigate our emotions, and how do our emotions influence our art?”

Opening Reception: Friday, July 25, 5-9pm

First Friday Market: Friday, August 1, 5-9pm

Open hours: Saturday and Sunday, 1-4pm or by appointment.

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Location Gallery: "Up For Grabs"
Aug
29
to Oct 3

Location Gallery: "Up For Grabs"

If you ever wanted to produce a solo or group show at Location Gallery, now is your chance!

Up For Grabs is our very first foray into seeing and awarding a show that is submission based.

And yes, Up For Grabs is a working title...the winning entry will have their own title. For more info and to apply click link

www.locationgallery.net/upforgrabs

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Jepson Center: #art912 Boxed In/Break Out Artist Talk: "Heroes and Hosts"
Jun
12
6:00 PM18:00

Jepson Center: #art912 Boxed In/Break Out Artist Talk: "Heroes and Hosts"

Join us for a conversation between artists Lisa D. Watson and Dana Richardson as they speak about their collaborative research and artmaking for Heroes & Hosts, the tenth annual Boxed In/Break Out installation.

This exhibition is part of the #art912 initiative, a platform dedicated to raising the visibility and vitality of artists living and working in Savannah. We look forward to seeing you for this exciting artist talk!

This event is free and open to the public. 

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Laney Contemporary: Artist Talk and Book Signing: Kevin Cooley's
Jun
4
6:00 PM18:00

Laney Contemporary: Artist Talk and Book Signing: Kevin Cooley's

The closing reception for "Don't You (Forget About Me)" will include an artist talk with Kevin Cooley and book signing for his extraordinary new publication "The Wizard of Awe" that will take place on Wednesday, June 4th at 6pm. Doors open at 5:30 for refreshments, and the artist talk will begin upstairs in the mirrored gallery alongside Cooley's photographs.

As many of you may know, Kevin lost his home to the California wildfires this past January. Laney Contemporary is donating proceeds of book sales to the Cooley family.

To preorder your copy please email info@laneycontemporary.com.

Limited copies available. Book retails for $60 (144 pages).

""The Wizard of Awe' chronicles the struggles and resilience of Kenneth Miller, a Minnesota-based fireworks manufacturer, alongside striking images of smoke, fire, and explosions I created under his guidance.

Misunderstood and often vilified by authorities and the media, Miller’s life took a dramatic turn after I published a portfolio of images of him in Popular Science—exposure that led to a raid on his family farm, explosives charges, and a two-year prison sentence.

This book showcases the breathtaking spectacle of Miller’s craft and seeks to humanize a man of integrity, challenging the negative perceptions that have unjustly clouded his legacy. It also honors the profound impact we’ve had on each other through a shared fascination with fire.

Many images from the book also appeared in my 2021 exhibition Exploded Views at Laney Contemporary—a show that would not have been possible without Miller’s collaboration." - Kevin Cooley

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Julie Lieberman: "Benefiting the Humane Society."
May
24
4:00 PM16:00

Julie Lieberman: "Benefiting the Humane Society."

“Please join us for ah exhibition of paintings exploring a range of styles and themes created by Julie Lieberman.

Originally from Philadelphia and New York City, Julie has resided in Savannah since 2001. She has been a professor of illustration for almost 40 years, teaching at Pratt, School of Visual Arts, and Savannah College of Art and Design. Julie is a published author, illustrator, and painter.

In 2018, she bought a small church which is now her studio. With open arms, Julie is welcoming the public to an introspective, extrospective, retrospective.

The opening reception is an indoor/outdoor event at the artist’s private studio. The afternoon gathering will be enhanced by the live sounds of Savannah’s soulful Soap.

A lifelong animal lover who has nurtured stray kitties, in her Starland District neighborhood, Julie is donating 20% of all proceeds to The Humane Society.”

Opening: May 24, 4 - 7PM

Location: 1130 East 60th St, Savannah, GA

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ArtStryngs: "Earthtanglements:" Lusiana Morales Febo
May
23
to May 25

ArtStryngs: "Earthtanglements:" Lusiana Morales Febo

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This exhibition will feature handmade paper works, paintings and drawings that explore the

cycles of transformation and connections in nature. Rooted in sustainability and respect for the

natural world, Lusiana Morales’ practice transforms local fallen leaves of Savannah, GA into

intricate forms that speak to the unseen connections within our environment. By repurposing

fallen leaves and other sustainable fibers, her work not only challenges our perceptions of

waste but also honors the cyclical beauty of ecosystems. Through this process, she invites

viewers to slow down, look closer, and rediscover their place within a larger environmental

rhythm.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 23rd, 5 - 9PM

The exhibition will be held on the second floor in the studio spaces.

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SLAM: Savannah Local Artist Market
May
17
10:00 AM10:00

SLAM: Savannah Local Artist Market

Annual Savannah Local Artists Market, featuring over 80 artists from Savannah, Georgia and surrounding region.

Featured Artists: Stacie Jean Albano, Sibel Alpaslan, Jessica Anderson, Linda Andrews, Sophia Arguelles, Peggy Jo Aughtry, Pam Awtry, Adrienne Berkland, Deanne Christman-Resch, Christy Dagsaan, Susan Diaz, Cindy Diaz – Kaufman, Elliott Edwards, Tate Ellington, Charlie Ellis, Jennifer Farago, Maxx Feist, LaTrelle Ferrelle, Justine Ferreri, Leslie Fitzgerald, Jeri Gale, Bonnie Godbee, Carol Hartley, Andrea Hattler Bramson, Jules Heerline, Rebecka Hess, Kaylee Hettenbaugh, Lind Hollingsworth, Irritable Pelican Gallery, Kasey Jeffrey, Casey Jones, Liz Juneau, Michael Lalicki, Julia Licht, Laura Lingle, Luba Lowry, Jessica Loyd, Raven Lundholm, Joan Clare Mazzeo, Crisley McCarson, Kevin McKay, Suzen Merrell, Mary Mewborn, Deborah Sherron Miller, Evelyn Murphy Charissa Murray, Merrill Neace, Anisa Nonya, Kim Owens, Maureen Patrick, Jacqueline Penney, Raquel N Perez Rollinson, Rick Petrea, Bobbie Poplin, Stephanie Prozonic, Allyn Rippin, Peter E. Roberts, Angela Roe, Annissa Roland, Joseph Sherman, Anita Smith, Terri Smith, Harriet Speer, Dana Steadman, Joje Surrette, Nina Swann, Terri Toler, Shellton Tremble, Shawn Turner, Kathleen Varadi, Sydney Warren, Raven Waters, Courtney Welcome, Jack Wilson, Haylee Workman, Danyell Wright, Nanci Zabko

Salvation Army Baseball Field: 300 Bee Road, Savannah, GA

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ArtStryngs: "Until The Earth Covers Us:" A Two Person Photography Exhibition
May
9
to May 10

ArtStryngs: "Until The Earth Covers Us:" A Two Person Photography Exhibition

Until The Earth Covers Us, A Two Person Photographic Exhibition featuring Photography Seniors Ruben Calderon and Sam Wyatt

Featured projects: Of Soil and Skin by Ruben Calderon and Decay and Devotion by Sam Wyatt

Curated by Grace Lawson

OPENING RECEPTION: May 9th, 6 - 9PM

OPEN HOURS: May 10th, 11AM - 5PM

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Gallery 2424: "The Form of Memory:" Olivia Esquivel
May
8
to May 11

Gallery 2424: "The Form of Memory:" Olivia Esquivel

On view May 8-11, 2025

Reception and Artist Talk: Friday, May 9, 5-8pm

Gallery Hours: Thursday, May 8 by apoointment; Saturday, May 10 and Sunday, May 11, 1-4pm

MFA Fibers candidate Olivia Esquivel has been researching the mind as a transitional space for memory. Her thesis exhibition work uses textile processes such as pleating and smocking to conceal and reveal liminal images, suggesting the fleeting movement of memories in the mind.

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Photopoint Gallery: Call for Entries: "Far Away"
May
4
to Jun 11

Photopoint Gallery: Call for Entries: "Far Away"

Photopoint Gallery’s first annual, juried group exhibition call for entries is officially open!

Welcome to the beginning of what we hope will be a new tradition. ‘Far Away’ marks the launch of our first annual, juried group exhibition - a thoughtfully curated show designed to remain on view for an extended period of time, both in the Gallery space and a dedicated online viewing room. Each year we will gather a new collection of local and regional artists, and their voices around a different theme.

The 2025 theme invites artists to explore the concept of distance, mystery, fantasy, escape - whether physical, emotional, cultural or imagined. This group show seeks work that evokes a sense of longing, adventure, attachment, presence, displacement, mood or wonder capturing what it means to be far away from home, time or reality.

From landscapes of distant places to abstract interpretations of separation, space and connection, ’Far Away’ encourages a broad exploration across all artistic mediums.

Entry deadline is July 11.

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Otis S. Johnson Cultural Arts Center: "Beyond Sight"
Apr
11
to May 30

Otis S. Johnson Cultural Arts Center: "Beyond Sight"

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Beyond Sight, a multisensory exhibition highlighting accessibility in art, is back for its second iteration!  Join us Friday, April 11 from 6:00-8:00pm for the opening reception of this incredible exhibition featuring local artists from diverse backgrounds. Free and open to the public, light refreshments provided.

Contributing Artists: Autumn Gary, Christopher Nitsche, Joshua Alexander, Lois Harvey, Maggie Garner

Curated by Visual Arts Specialist Antonia B. Larkin. Beyond Sight will be on display in our gallery until Friday, May 30. Always free and open to the public.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 11th, 6 - 8PM

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Otis S. Johnson Cultural Arts Center: "Day of Clay"
Mar
31
2:00 PM14:00

Otis S. Johnson Cultural Arts Center: "Day of Clay"

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FREE - All Ages invited  
     
Join us for an afternoon of clay exploration and fun! Day of Clay is an annual event held at the Cultural Arts Center that is free and for all ages. The event features stations on the lawn with various activities such as on the wheel, hand building, family activities, and more with take home projects. 
     
This year will feature a more accessible layout for those with mobility needs. All experience levels are welcome. Parents/guardians must accompany children ages 14 and under at all times. Come by any time between 2 and 5pm, no pre-registration required.

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Gallery 2424: "Sentimental Surrealism:" A Collection by Joshua Archer
Mar
27
to Mar 29

Gallery 2424: "Sentimental Surrealism:" A Collection by Joshua Archer

Years after leaving the childhood home designed and built by his grandfather, Joshua Archer was struck by the fear of forgetting its once-familiar details. Sentimental Surrealism transforms his youth reveries into tangible objects, elevating the quiet, often-overlooked corners of his past while highlighting the micro design movements of the late 20th century that inform his visual language. Blending memory with material, Archer crafts sculptural furnishings that invite viewers into a reflection on the concept of home and retrospection.

On View March 27-29, 2025

Thursday, March 27, 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.: Opening Reception
Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.: Open Hours

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Fine Arts Gallery (Armstrong Campus): Elise Aleman: "Theopoetics Prothesis"
Mar
24
to Mar 28

Fine Arts Gallery (Armstrong Campus): Elise Aleman: "Theopoetics Prothesis"

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Ancient stories meet contemporary life in this exploration of theology and art. Through layered imagery and diverse media, personal narratives of faith emerge, offering new perspectives on biblical narrative and inviting contemplation on the enduring power of scripture.

Elise Aleman (b. 1960) embodies the vibrant spirit of a Cuban-born artist who found her home in the artistic haven of Savannah, GA. In 2021, she proudly graduated with a BFA from SCAD, and now, she ardently pursues an MFA at GSU, furthering her artistic journey, and breathing new life into her lifelong passion.

A renaissance woman of the art world, Elise fearlessly navigates the realms of oil, acrylics, printmaking, and mixed media, showcasing her eclectic talents.

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Location Gallery: "Mood Indigo"
Mar
21
to Apr 18

Location Gallery: "Mood Indigo"

Mood Indigo is Location Gallery's 9th Anniversary show by local artists with work that is 60% the shades of indigo. Artists include Stacie Jean Albano, Claire Barrett,  Lennie Ciliento, Brian Condon, Joy Dunigan, Manda Faye Dunigan, Darcy Melton, Cora Ennis Morris, Bernard Nolan, Jennifer Nolan, Anisa Nonya, Michelle Perez, Jessica Pope, Dana Richardson, Lisa D. Watson, Heather L. Young, Rose Marie Woulfe and more. Gallery profits from show are donated to Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Savannah

On Display March 21st - April 18th, 2025

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Statesboro Festival of the Arts
Mar
21
to Mar 23

Statesboro Festival of the Arts

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Statesboro Festival of the Arts
March 21st - 23rd, 2025

Statesborso’s Inaugural Art Festival: featuring over 30 artist booths, live performances and artist demos, and a wide selection of dining options from local restaurants and food trucks!

Hours:

March 21st: Artist set-up

March 22nd (Sat) 10 AM - 5PM Open to the public

March 23rd (Sun) 10 AM - 4PM Open to the public

Location: The Market at Visit Statesboro and McTell Trail

Learn more: https://www.averittcenterforthearts.org/festival-of-arts

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Cleo the Project Space: "A Soft Landing:" A Four Person Exhibition
Mar
8
to Apr 12

Cleo the Project Space: "A Soft Landing:" A Four Person Exhibition

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Opening Reception: March 8th 5-8 pm with artist talk at 6 pm

Cleo the Project Space is pleased to present A Soft Landing, an exhibition with work by Sophia Belkin, Lou Breininger, Thomas Martinez Pilnik, and Aliyah Salmon. This show brings back four fiber artists that have previously shown at Cleo to celebrate contemporary themes in the textile world. 

Sophia Belkin utilizes embroidery, digital printing on fabric and dye to achieve her kaleidoscope imagery. Inspired by the natural world, Belkin pieces together digitally manipulated images of greenery and flowerscapes with organic line stitching and psychedelic color bleeding to blend lush pieces of an evolved final puzzle. The work is built in equal parts by machine and by hand to achieve a multi-layered and textured form that landscapes a unique aesthetic field of vision with a knowledge of craft across the history of textile work.

With a shared inspiration from nature and a bleeding color scheme, Lou Breininger airbrushes acrylic paint onto carpet swatches to create sensational scenes of ripe lemons. The four exhibited works are prismatic, inducing the soft reference of watercolor on paper plus a divine appellation paired with the typical medium of airbrush found in t-shirt shops on boardwalks. The backdrop of carpet is the final exploration in a mix of references both high and low to create a distinct language of texture, character, and balance.

The tufted surface is also shown through the handiwork of Aliyah Salmon and Thomas Martinez Pilnik. Salmon creates surreal sets through the use of familiar iconography and melodrama. Building up scenarios that feature gradients of color, bold mark making, and cloudy skies, these hand tufted landscapes are cinematic in their ultimate pairings. These pairings explore Black femininity through subconscious considerations that hold signs through culturally significant objects. The slow process of repetition while using an Oxford punch needle to create these works is a meditation on craft and handmade design.

In slight contrast Thomas Martinez Pilnik uses a tufting gun to create his works. These works include everyday objects imbued with significance in their recreation including a place setting with ceramic renderings of cigarette butts, chicken bones, and orange skins. This piece stands as testimony to a familiar and everyday event, while 8 Out of 10 Melanoma stands as a symbol of the extraordinary as a replica of the diagram that was drawn on Pilnik’s stomach before his first cancer surgery. 

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SCAD Museum of Art: "Platform as Platform:" Sarah Crowner
Mar
1
to Mar 18

SCAD Museum of Art: "Platform as Platform:" Sarah Crowner

Sarah Crowner’s Platform as Platform is an impressive artwork and a generous invitation. For this new exhibition, the artist has created her largest tile installation to date, a site-specific structure that stretches a span of more than 200 feet. Fabricated from custom-made terracotta tiles created in Guadalajara, Mexico, the floor-based work echoes the accumulative repetition of the building’s historic brick masonry, while the tiles’ colorful, glossy glaze and wavy design form a vast, dynamic ground that seems to extend into the horizon.

Crowner welcomes viewers to stand on, walk across, or even dance around the light-refracting composition, encouraging an experience that shifts our relationship to painting. Crowner’s work also functions as a foundation for a group of stretched drop cloths sourced from the SCAD fibers department’s screen-printing lab, displaying the accumulated layers from years of use by students and faculty. These collaborative canvases transform a potentially overlooked surface into something laden with meaning and aesthetic merit, evoking the reframed viewpoint that her installation offers. An inclusive, expansive gesture, Platform as Platform enjoins us to reconsider how we see the world.

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Avondale / Victory Heights Studio Crawl
Mar
1
11:00 AM11:00

Avondale / Victory Heights Studio Crawl

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On Saturday, March 1 from 11-5 artists in Avondale and Victory Heights neighborhoods will host a public studio crawl. Artists Betsy Cain, Matt Toole, Tony Artemisia, Will Penny, Dana Richardson and Chis Moss will host visitors in their studios. We hope the  public invitation will inspire you to get to know some artists in the community or, if you already know them, to take a peek at what they’ve been up to lately. 

How to participate: This is a self-guided studio crawl. You can find a digital map on our website or start at any artist’s studio you like and pick up a map there. Ology Gallery/Clayer & Co. will also have maps.

Once you have a map, or list of addresses, or both, you can begin your own personal crawl. Start anywhere you like, bring your map with you and collect all six artist’s signatures to be entered in a raffle for some sweet, sweet prizes to be drawn at the end of the crawl.​

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SCAD Museum of Art: "Pattern Legacies at SCAD deFINE ART" Panel with brand leaders Tessa Perutz and Gregory Sharp
Feb
27
10:00 AM10:00

SCAD Museum of Art: "Pattern Legacies at SCAD deFINE ART" Panel with brand leaders Tessa Perutz and Gregory Sharp

Join Tessa Perutz and Gregory Sharp for a panel discussion presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2025. Perutz, who helms New York-based artist textiles company Massif Central, and Sharp, president and brand manager of Vera Neumann Inc. and custodian of The Vera Neumann Archive, will discuss diverse approaches to translating art into fashion, as demonstrated in the exhibition Vera & Friends: Artist Scarves by Vera Neumann and Massif Central.

Following this discussion, the panelists will lead a fun and stylish scarf-tying tutorial, guiding the audience through several creative techniques, from classic knots to trendy twists, that will take your scarfs from the shelf to the runways of life. Bring your own silk scarf or practice with one of a few provided.

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Savannah Cultural Arts Center: "24th Annual New Beginning Youth Art Exhibition"
Feb
26
to Mar 19

Savannah Cultural Arts Center: "24th Annual New Beginning Youth Art Exhibition"

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The Savannah (GA) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, has sponsored the New Beginning Art Exhibition since 2001 as a competition for middle and high school students in the Chatham County community. The program recognizes students in a professional art forum and celebrates the culture and history of diverse groups of people through art. New Beginning has been recognized as an award-winning program nationally and in the Southern Area of The Links, Incorporated. The Savannah Cultural Arts Center, the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System and the Savannah Black Heritage Festival are valued partners with the New Beginning Art Exhibition.

Gallery Opening Reception

Wednesday, February 26 | 6:00-7:15pm - Free and open to the public. Light refreshments served!

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SCAD Museum of Art: "Empower Agency" with artist Zanele Muholi at SCAD deFINE ART honoree conversation
Feb
26
5:00 PM17:00

SCAD Museum of Art: "Empower Agency" with artist Zanele Muholi at SCAD deFINE ART honoree conversation

SCAD deFINE ART honoree Zanele Muholi joins arts advocate Phyllis Hollis for a conversation illuminating their boundary-pushing practice. An esteemed artist whose work explores notions of identity, community, and advocacy, Muholi recognizes the complex lived experiences of Black queer individuals. Through striking photographs, film, and sculpture, the artist reenvisions representation, offering an empathetic and emboldened perspective of the human condition.

Presenting the SCAD deFINE ART 2025 honoree conversation in connection with their exhibition Zanele Muholi at the SCAD Museum of Art, the artist will delve into their life and creative process, highlighting landmark bodies of work including the ongoing series Faces and Phases, Brave Beauties, and Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness). The conversation will reflect on the artist’s motivations as a self-described “visual activist” and their lifelong mission to platform marginalized people.

This event is free and open to the public and presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2025.

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SCAD Museum of Art: "Expand painting practices at SCAD deFINE ART artist talks with Sarah Crowner, William Glaser Wilson"
Feb
26
11:00 AM11:00

SCAD Museum of Art: "Expand painting practices at SCAD deFINE ART artist talks with Sarah Crowner, William Glaser Wilson"

Join artists Sarah Crowner and William Glaser Wilson (SCAD B.F.A., photography, 2017) for two individual, in-depth conversations exploring their new respective exhibitions, presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2025. Crowner takes guests through the process of creating her experiential, site-specific installation Platform as Platform as a generous invitation to shift our relationship to painting and reconsider how we see the world. Then, speaking on his exhibition Spirit Sanctuary, Wilson will expand on themes such as the passage of time, family, and memory that inform his highly expressive, boldly colored paintings.

This event is free and open to the public and presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2025

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SCAD Museum of Art: "SCAD deFINE ART 2025 Opening Party"
Feb
25
6:00 PM18:00

SCAD Museum of Art: "SCAD deFINE ART 2025 Opening Party"

Join the SCAD Museum of Art to celebrate culture-shaping visionaries at the opening party for SCAD deFINE ART 2025. Connect with honoree Zanele Muholi and many of the featured artists as the museum debuts a new season of exhibitions by Muholi, Diedrick Brackens, Sarah Crowner, Raul De Lara, Jónsi, Ken Gun Min, Vera Neumann and Massif Central, Christina Quarles, Samuel Ross, and William Glaser Wilson.

These artists present powerful reflections on the human experience across a multitude of mediums and methodologies. Explore their impactful works in the galleries and witness the dynamic transformation of large-scale canvases by student artists from the university’s illustration, animation, and immersive reality programs in the museum’s Alex Townsend Memorial Courtyard.

Schedule of events
Open galleries | 6–8 p.m.
Live-action drawing | 6–8 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public and presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2025.

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