Our favorite independent intellectual would have celebrated with 221 candles on January 28.
Today in Georgia History features a short video about our patron for the arts- you can view it by clicking here.
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Image: Carl Ludwig Brandt; Mary Telfair, 1896; 89 3/4 x 64 1/4 inches; Oil on canvas
Telfair Museums is pleased to announce the first major additions to the ArtZeum family gallery at the Jepson Center, scheduled to open Spring 2012. Four new activities designed for pre-Kindergarten children, an audience that has grown dramatically since the Jepson opened in 2006 thanks to programs such as Toddler 3rd and a partnership with local [...]
The New wcwm? Family Make
wcwm? focuses on developing problem-solving and critical thinking skills through imagination. Explore your creative side with inspiring activities utilizing up-cycled materials, found objects, and traditional art supplies. In addition to the wcwm? project kits, the studios provide water color and collage opportunities.
New to the open studio wcwm? program is monthly [...]
“Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts, raise your seatbacks and tray tables to their upright and locked positions and prepare for landing.”
I feel as though I have been given the opportunity and rare privilege to pilot a magnificent aircraft on a fascinating journey. At the outset, while reviewing the pre-flight checklist and the [...]
Robert Claiborne Morris began to re-examine his understanding of race in America after reading an early proof of Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, “Slavery by Another Name.” The revelation that slavery continued until World War II changed the way he saw his native South.
Morris began an odyssey in search of the images, objects [...]
Thanks for coming in and sharing your creative spirit!
We are inherent makers. It is perhaps the most significant aspect of being human. At the Telfair Museums we work to provide you with the opportunity to celebrate creativity and freely explore the joy of making.
The humanist movement in the Renaissance made the individual the center of the universe, and for all that greatness there [...]
-Martha Mythlo
Time to share some more Super Museum Art by Creative Kids. Judging from the range shown here, some of our visitors to the ArtZeum qualify as “kids at heart.”
We love it ALL.
The staff and volunteers of Telfair Museums want to wish each and every one of you a Happy Thanksgiving. Safe travels, and we hope to see you at the Telfair Academy, Jepson Center or Owens-Thomas House soon!
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We asked our staff what they were most thankful for, and here are a few of their responses:
“We’re thankful [...]
Meet me in the crowd…
More photos from Art Fair in the Jepson studios: