As our classes are beginning to get rolling this fall, I have been thinking a lot about the important role and great experience that we provide to the Savannah Community, such as our Youth Drawing Portfolio Builder class, which will start on October 6th. This class gives young artists an opportunity to develop advanced skills [...]
- Martha Mythlo
I live in one of Savannah’s historic districts, so when I work in my garden I am always uncovering little bits of old pottery and china. On my last big “dig” I found a shard that I normally would have tossed away. It was missing that charming randomly cropped vignette of flowers and [...]
Jan Reich (1942-2009) was one of the Czech Republic’s most celebrated 20th-century photographers. Using an older large-format camera, Reich spent decades photographing the crumbling buildings of Prague, evocative still lifes, and melancholy Bohemian landscapes.
Reich graduated from the renowned Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague during the school’s intellectual [...]
Harmonic Discord: Cityscapes by John Dowell
Other pieces on view
September 23 – December 30, 2011 / Beach Institute
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 25, 3 p.m.
Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris Street, Savannah
John Dowell has spent much of the past decade enthralled by the architecture, lights, and reflections that compose America’s urban landscapes. Using a large-format camera, Dowell has [...]
As in any work environment, there exists the danger of losing the individual to the innumerable everyday tasks at hand. In the monumental undertaking of showcasing the wondrous creativity of others, it is easy to forget the creativity of our own. This inaugural Telfair Museums Staff Exhibition presents the creativity of the important individuals [...]
By Kenda Williams
Name: Michael Edford
Job: Part-time volunteer with Telfair Academy, Owens-Thomas House and Jepson Center and full-time restaurant manager at Pearl’s Saltwater Grille
What he does: Edford began volunteering at the Telfair Academy more than three years ago, shortly after moving to Savannah from Kentucky.
Read the original article here at SavannahNow.com
Here at Telfair Museums we work in a museum environment every day. Whether its the Owens-Thomas House, Jepson Center or the Telfair Academy we sometimes seem to forget the intrinsic beauty and wonder of a museum.
Through following the Twitter trending topic #museummemory (started by @MuseumNerd) we were inspired to share some of our earliest Museum [...]
Telfair docents have the opportunity to learn from visiting artists and curators. Here, David Rubin Curator of the Psychedelic exhibition gives a gallery talk for Telfair docents.
With docent training right around the corner, it’s pretty safe to say that my excitement level is at a ridiculous high. I started this position around the same time last [...]
- Martha Mythlo
I began working at the Telfair as a volunteer for the Toddler Third Thursday program. During one session, I assisted while the toddlers painted on wall-mounted sheets of paper nearly as large as themselves. They used wide brushes, dipping them into palettes of paint placed beside them on the floor. In no time the class [...]
Top image: Martha Mythlo, Kip Bradley, Harry DeLorme, Caryn Turgeon, Vaughnette Goode-Walker. That’s us again below as rendered by Daniel Shiffman’s Swarm, one of the interactive art pieces in our Technology & Art Gallery.
Hi! Welcome to 220B, home to the Telfair Museums’ Education Department.
If you are viewing this you just may be an educator, a [...]