PULSE: Art & Technology Festival 2013 is off to a fantastic start! We had a great turnout last night for Hye Yeon Nam and her talk on her various projects, all featured in her exhibition Unfamiliar Behavior: Works by Hye Yeon Nam. The exhibition will be on view at the Jepson Center until April 28, but make [...]
Are you interested in becoming a Docent? Docent training begins Thursday, October 4 at 3 pm! Volunteer docents serve as the Telfair’s most visible and important public ambassadors, conducting tours and welcoming both local and out-of-town visitors. All that is required is a love for art and enthusiasm for meeting new people every day. Don’t know [...]
The artifacts of our homes and lives tell stories. As children these stories are means to understanding the processes of living. The two quilt exhibitions at Telfair Museums offer a wonderful way to explore the narratives of living while also fostering kid’s natural desire to make. Ellen Dissanayke in her essay The Pleasure and Meaning [...]
With a bit of time between completion of summer camps and the beginning of fall programs, I have been able to meet the creative needs that come with my job. This has me thinking a lot about the pace of the museum’s educational programs. Mostly, I have been thinking about organizing tasks for [...]
This summer we had an unprecedented interest and enrollment in two of the Museums summer camps: The Art with the Pro’s camp and the wcwm?/ What Can We Make Tinker Hacker camp. These two innovative camps explore traditional art practices from a contemporary perspective incorporating DIY trends, technology, and local arts. The “what can we [...]
This past Saturday during our Folk Art Family day-an educational event sponsored by the City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs-we had free admission and artists demonstrators, lectures and folk art kids projects. Parents and their children saw art work and learned from artists that create art from the everyday materials that surround them. During [...]
It was great to see so many of you last Saturday as we celebrated the work of Howard Finster and other self-taught artists with a Folk Art Day. Local folk artist Paul Walker was on hand to talk about his imaginative repurposed pieces, as was Paul Lindsay, whose kinetic art whirled, spun and quacked. Joe [...]
This week in the studios at Telfair Museums we offered two summer camps: “Geek Bling” and “Video Game Development.” While it was not planned this way it was clearly girls vs. boys. In one studio the Geek Bling camp (comprised entirely of girls) made fashion accessories by destroying and repurposing old technology. On the other [...]
While in this second session summer photo camp (ages 13-16) we didn’t hear the question “What is film?” Not because they aren’t old enough to remember film- but because they already had a great amount of photography experience. Two students who began in years past in our younger session continued in this older, more advanced [...]
Zanita Harris Tenenbaum Intern, September 2011 to June 2012 I was born and raised right here in Savannah, Georgia! The Tenenbaum Scholar internship was both introduced and suggested to me by my sculpture teacher-cum-National Art Honor Society head, Ms. Nicole Baker. When I began my internship, I was a senior at Herschel V. Jenkins High [...]
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