Telfair Museums
Jepson
Center
Open 10am–5pm today
Telfair
Academy
Closed today
Owens-Thomas House
& Slave Quarters
Open 10am–4pm today
TELFAIR MUSEUMS' THREE SITES – TELFAIR ACADEMY, OWENS-THOMAS HOUSE & SLAVE QUARTERS, AND JEPSON CENTER –
ARE OPEN!
OPEN DAILY 10AM-5PM
ARE OPEN!
OPEN DAILY 10AM-5PM
Happenings
Sensitive Contacts: Interactive Art by Scenocosme
Telfair’s PULSE Art + Technology Festival returns for 2023 with an exhibition of interactive installations by Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt, two French artists who work as a duo under the name Scenocosme. Interactivity is integral to their work, which encompasses software, sound, visuals, a variety of materials, and architecture. They also explore invisible relationships within our environment responding to the energetic variations of living beings. This exhibition includes four signature works that allow participants to interact in surprising ways.
Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art
Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art is a group exhibition bringing together an international collection of artists who have disrupted or extended the traditional presentation of still lifes. The artists have appropriated the genre in order to create works within a framework of Black diasporic identities, histories, and collective experiences. Their works are expressed through various mediums, including painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, performance, and installation.
Anything Goes: Contemporary Art and Materials
This exhibition considers artists across divides of geography, privilege, formal education, and access who have continued to explore materiality and its potential for aesthetic invention and the construction of meaning.
#art912, N/um
N/um is a site-specific installation by Savannah and New York City-based artist Tafy LaPlanche (American, b. 1991) for the 2022 iteration of Telfair Museums’ Boxed in/Break Out project to activate the public-facing windows at the Jepson Center on Barnard Street.
#art912 CONVERGENCE
CONVERGENCE is an #art912 survey exhibition that brings together more than 40 works from Telfair Museums’ permanent collection from recent or current Savannah-based artists.
Events
The Costumed Figure in Oil with with Melinda Borysevicz
What a person wears tells a story. From the choice of specific attire, colors, accessories, and fabrics to the way in which someone inhabits their clothes (comfortably, stiffly, self-consciously …), we find clues that chronicle the nature of the person in front of us, both on the superficial societal level and on the deeper psychological level. In this workshop, we’ll be working on one long pose with an elegantly dressed model (with a twist!) to find/create their story.
Super Museum Sunday
Telfair will again open its doors and offer free admission for the venerable Super Museum Sunday celebration in connection with the Georgia History Festival. Hands-on art making activities for families will be offered at the Jepson Center only.
Art Start: Stroller & Toddler Tours
Once a month, our youngest patrons are invited to the Jepson Center for story time, a special tour, and an art activity. Strollers, crying babies, toddlers, and older siblings are all welcome here.
Video Art Screenings: Ragnar Kjartansson and The National, A Lot of Sorrow
Telfair Museums will present four screenings of A Lot of Sorrow (2013–14), a collaboration between Icelandic conceptual artist Ragnar Kjartansson and the American band The National. Capturing a performance at MoMA PS1 in 2013, this meditative film runs for 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 35 seconds.
Three museums bridging 200 years of art, history, & architecture in Savannah.
Telfair offers a diverse array of contemporary art, fine and decorative art, and authentic Savannah history.
Explore our three museums » Telfair offers a diverse array of contemporary art, fine and decorative art, and authentic Savannah history.
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