Telfair Museums’ I Have Marks to Make exhibition marks its 18th year as a celebration of the healing and therapeutic power of art. The exhibition includes art made as personal expression and therapeutic activity by individual artists and individuals participating from a wide range of local organizations. Many works are made during Telfair’s outreach to [...]
Quilts from the Telfair’s Collection highlights colorful coverlets that are composed of fabrics from the rarest silks to the simplest cottons, corduroys, wools and modern polyesters. The makers represent Americans of all ages, races and creeds with one important factor in common – the need to express themselves through their textile artistry. Providing warmth and comfort [...]
Journey to the Beloved Community: Story Quilts by Beth Mount features quilts created by Beth Mount, a Georgia native living in New York City. Mount uses her textile skills in a creative format to build communication among the diverse groups of people with whom she works, supporting people with disabilities in becoming valued members of [...]
In conjunction with the 10th annual Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival, Telfair Museums will present the exhibition Live from Gray’s Reef: Underwater Photographs by Greg McFall, on view at the Jepson Center from September 18 through October 7. These photographs, taken by Gray’s Reef Sanctuary Assistant Superintendent Greg McFall, showcase the stunning variety of underwater [...]
A self-proclaimed “Man of Visions,” Howard Finster was one of America’s most widely known and prolific self-taught artists, producing over 46,000 pieces of art before his death in 2001. Finster saw himself as a sacred artist, tirelessly recording his visionary prophesies and providing glimpses of a celestial outer space world that God revealed to him. [...]
On the 100th anniversary of the creation of Girl Scouts, Telfair Museums takes a look at Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Low’s interest in art, both as an artist and as an art organizer. In addition to creating her own art, Low took a leading role in the Savannah art scene in the early 20th [...]
Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, Telfair Museums has greatly expanded its holdings in photography, adding nearly 300 photographs to its permanent collection. While the Telfair continues to actively collect photographers of the mid- to late twentieth century, such as Helen Levitt, Manuel Ãlvarez Bravo, Walker Evans, and Robert Doisneau, it has also developed [...]
Leo Villareal is a pioneer in the use of LEDs and computer-driven imagery and known both for his light sculptures and architectural, site-specific works. This exhibition, his first major traveling museum survey, seeks to place Villareal’s body of work within the continuum of contemporary art. Born in Albuquerque, NM, in 1967 and raised in El [...]
Despite coming of age at a time when modernism and abstraction had achieved a firm hold on the prevailing modes of art instruction throughout the country, West Fraser has remained a traditionalist, earning a place among the region’s leading practitioners of traditional realism. Fraser was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1955 and has spent most [...]
Since their development and beginnings as cutting-edge technology, videogames have provided fertile ground as both a medium and inspiration for artists, particularly within the last decade. Contemporary artists have continued to modify existing games or game technology, design new games, create videos within game worlds, and employ the visual vocabulary of videogames in other media. [...]
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