Telfair Museums
Jepson
Center
Open 10am–5pm today
Telfair
Academy
Open 10am–5pm today
Owens-Thomas House
& Slave Quarters
Open 10am–5pm today
TELFAIR MUSEUMS' THREE SITES – TELFAIR ACADEMY, OWENS-THOMAS HOUSE & SLAVE QUARTERS, AND JEPSON CENTER –
ARE OPEN!
OPEN 10AM-5PM THURSDAY–TUESDAY
CLOSED ON WEDNESDAY
Under Georgia law, there is no liability for an injury or death of an individual entering these premises if such injury or death results from the inherent risks of contracting COVID-19. You are assuming this risk by entering these premises.
ARE OPEN!
OPEN 10AM-5PM THURSDAY–TUESDAY
CLOSED ON WEDNESDAY
Under Georgia law, there is no liability for an injury or death of an individual entering these premises if such injury or death results from the inherent risks of contracting COVID-19. You are assuming this risk by entering these premises.
Happenings
Vehicles of Change
This exhibition will consider the pivotal role the automobile played in advancing societal and political revolutions in the United States in the twentieth century.
Before Midnight: Bonaventure and the Bird Girl
Telfair Museums presents Sylvia Shaw Judson’s iconic sculpture Bird Girl within the context of the history and art of Bonaventure Cemetery.
Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America
The rise of America as a world superpower after WWII created a distinctly individual and identifiably “American” approach to artmaking. Complex Uncertainties is an evolving exhibition grounded by works in Telfair’s modern and contemporary collection that reveals some of the ways in which historic events challenge artists to construct narratives and react to power.
Re-Cor-Dare: Sauda Mitchell
Re-Cor-Dare is a solo #art912 exhibition of Savannah-based artist Sauda Mitchell (American, b. 1981). Mitchell’s prints, paintings, and artist books serve as compelling visual responses to her sustained engagement with archival collection materials. In researching personal papers, photographs, artifacts, and curated digital collections, her work explores thematic topics of study relating to the Black experience. Utilizing QR codes, selected works link to digitized collection materials focusing on their ability as teaching tools recalling stories embedded within the African American collective memory.
Events
Legacy of Slavery in Savannah Initiative Virtual Book Club: Maurice Hobson
Join us on July 8 at 6pm to discuss The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) with author Maurice J. Hobson, associate professor of African American studies at Georgia State University. In his book, Hobson explores the history of black Southerners living in Atlanta in the post-World War II era, effectively interrogating the city’s long held-title of “black Mecca.” This virtual book club is free and open to the public. A live Q&A will follow a brief presentation.
Legacy of Slavery in Savannah Initiative Virtual Book Club: Tina McElroy Ansa
Join us on August 12 at 6pm to discuss Tina McElroy Ansa’s first novel, Baby of the Family (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989). Ansa, who is a novelist, filmmaker, teacher, and journalist, will present her book—a coming-of-age novel set in 1949 in rural Georgia. It chronicles the life of Lena McPherson, a black girl who is able to see and talk to ghosts. This virtual book club is free and open to the public. A live Q&A will follow a brief presentation.
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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