Telfair Museums

Bill Dawers on Silver in Savannah

kristin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:38:06 +0000

http://savannahnow.com/column/2010-03-10/man-about-town-huge-turnout-greets-story-silver-savannah

Treasures from the Telfair: Paintings from the Collection of the Telfair Museum of Art

kristin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:54:00 +0000

The Telfair will partner with the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina and display a selection of fine paintings from our permanent collection in the Art Cetner’s Walter Greer Gallery. The exhibit will include perennial favorites such as George Bellows’ Over to Blackhead, Jermome Myers’ The Callico Sellers, and Eliot Clarks’s Smoke Plumes of Savannah. Also included will be rarely viewed gems like George Elmer Browne’s charming genre scene The Circus.

As part of the Telfair’s cultural exchange partnership with the Art Center, they will offer several programming opportunities exclusively for Telfair members.

Members’ Opening Reception
April 8, 5:50-7 pm
Art Center of Coastal Carolina
Free to Telfair members

Musical Presentation: Elton John’s Aida
May 16, 6:30 pm
The Art Center will bring a small company of cast members from Elton John’s Aida to perform at the Telfair. Aida-a grand, epic musical and winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Score- tells the story of two contemporary adults who are transported back in time to the days of Radames. The two find themselves in ancient Egypt witnessing a story of forbidden and unrewuited love.
Reservations required.
For more information or to make reservations, please call 912.790.8890.

Matinee Performance: Aida
Enjoy a delicious lunch while sipping champagne aboard the Swept Away coach. Upon arrival at the Art Center, you will be treated to a delightful afternoon of theater and art.
Tickets are $125 per person (includes transportaion, a champagne lunch and admission to Aida). Reservations are required and must be made by May 7.
For more information or to make reservations, please call 912.790.8890.

Silver in Savannah

kristin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:54:33 +0000

As seen in Savannah Morning News

30th Annual Telfair Ball

kristin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:36:48 +0000

Telfair Ball brings out many to support the arts. Click here for more.

Telfair Wins 2010 Addys

holly — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:25:37 +0000

At the Savannah Ad Federation ADDY Awards Ceremony hedl Friday, February 19th, 2010, the Telfair Museum took gold– Dutch Utopia Exhibition Campaign, Silver–Telfair Museums website, and Bronze-Desmazières exhibition brochure.

2009 Art Fair Winners

holly — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:00:14 +0000

The Telfair is pleased to announce the winners of the Fifteenth Annual Telfair Art Fair, selected by 2009 Art Fair judge Susan Krane of the San Jose Museum of Art.

The Best of Show award was presented to Chris Coffey of Akron, OH, who entered the Art Fair in the Photography category. Judge Susan Krane described his work as “exquisite black-and-white photography that falls fully within the traditions of American landscape photography but with a fresh eye and a skillful ability to dodge nostalgia yet evoke the true physical and emotional sense of nature in many moods.”

Second Prize went to Jean Yao of Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Textiles/Fibers). Krane referred to her work as “masterful basketry with impressive scale and a wide range of formal references—and delicate touch with the natural materials of the South.”

Third Prize was awarded to Meredith Sutton of Savannah, GA (Jewelry). Sutton creates “ jewelry with elegance and an unexpected ability to move between the decorative and minimal, [reflecting] admirable and bold experimentation with materials,” stated Krane.

Honorable Mention winners were Maggie Evans of Savannah, GA ( Drawing/Pastel), Meryl Truett of Savannah, GA (Photography), and Tamara Garvey of Savannah, GA (Drawing/Pastel).

According to Krane, Evans creates “poignant work in pastels with an existential twist,” while Truett “takes the Southern tradition of color photography to a new scale—eloquent documents of the back roads and lost times.” Krane stated that Tamara Garvey demonstrates the “ability to push a delightful lyrical style and play with a figurative approach that evokes the fantasy and hybrid realities of animation,” adding that Garvey gets the “best business card award, as well.”

In the Open Art category, Torrey Stifel was awarded Best of Show. Krane noted her “delicate use of materials, combination of painterliness, and whimsical imagery.”

15th Annual Telfair Art Fair

holly — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:17:05 +0000

The Telfair Museum of Art will present the 15th annual Telfair Art Fair on Saturday November 14 and Sunday November 15 at Telfair Square in downtown Savannah.

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I Have Marks to Make

holly — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:10:07 +0000

I Have Marks to Make enters its fifteenth year at the Telfair Museum of Art, providing an important community forum on artists with disabilities and art used in a therapeutic context. Featuring works by nearly one hundred artists of all ages, the exhibition will again take place in the Morrison education gallery and adjacent spaces in the Jepson Center.
Artwork is submitted through a variety of community, health, and social service organizations. Regular participating agencies include Memorial Health Rehabilitation Institute; Candler/St. Joseph’s Rehabilitation; Life, Inc.; the Savannah Chatham County Schools Department of Exceptional Children; and the City of Savannah’s Therapeutics Program. Many works in the exhibition are produced as a part of the Telfair’s Art for All program.

Kirk Varnedoe Collection

holly — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:20:14 +0000

The Telfair’s Kirk Varnedoe Collection, including pieces by some of the most pivotal artists of the past fifty years, will be on view this winter at the Jepson Center for the Arts. Assembled in honor of the late Savannah native, scholar, and MoMA curator Kirk Varnedoe (1946-2003), this remarkable group of works on paper contains some of the finest examples of contemporary art in the museum’s permanent collection.

The Varnedoe Collection celebrates the life and legacy of Kirk Varnedoe through the presentation of paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs created by the contemporary artists he most admired. A native of Savannah, Varnedoe was a distinguished scholar and chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York between 1988 and 2001. The works in this collection, which are permanent gifts to the Telfair, were donated by twenty-two artists (or their representatives) in Varnedoe’s memory.

The wide-ranging taste of Kirk Varnedoe is reflected in the assembled pieces, largely produced within the past decade by artists diverse in age, background, and methodology. The Varnedoe Collection includes exemplary works by artists such as Jasper Johns, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Richard Avedon, and many others.

Telfair’s Dutch Utopia on GPB

holly — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:29:59 +0000

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