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Happenings
9 to 5
What is your favorite work of art from Telfair Museums’ permanent collection? With a growing collection of over 8,000 objects, that can be a tough question to answer! Fortunately, Telfair's staff, docents, and member affinity groups took on the challenge and selected 60 works for display in our largest group-curated exhibition to date, 9 to 5.
Shattered Illusions: Reconsidering Glassware Through the Lens of Care
Shattered Illusions: Reconsidering Glassware through the Lens of Care examines how upper-class Savannahians in the 19th century used the wealth they accumulated through the exploitation of enslaved and domestic labor to acquire luxurious objects for their homes, in this case glassware.
Created Beasts: Sculpture by Ulysses Davis
Telfair presents the first exhibition to focus on depictions of creatures, real and imagined, in the work of noted Savannah wood sculptor Ulysses Davis (1914–1990). Born in Fitzgerald, Georgia, Davis taught himself to carve wood as a child and relocated to Savannah to establish a barbershop where he created his art. This exhibition explores Davis’ sculptures of beasts inspired by biblical stories, as well as fantastic creatures that sprang entirely from his fertile imagination.
Retreating
The eighth annual Boxed In/Break Out features a series of photo collages by Polish American artist, designer, and professor Wioleta Kaminska. Viewers encounter the work as six large-scale, digitally manipulated photographs of merged Icelandic landscapes.
Earth Angel
It’s hard to miss the large, shiny sculpture soaring over your head when you enter the Jepson Center’s atrium. Titled Earth Angel, the reflective butterfly is a site-specific installation by the collaborative Los Angeles-based duo FriendsWithYou, aka artists Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III.
Events
Making Marks 2023 Opening Celebration
Join Telfair Museums staff and members of the Savannah community in the Neises Auditorium for the opening program for Making Marks. The program will include a presentation of Telfair’s outreach programming participant speakers from partner organizations.
Curator’s Tour of Created Beasts: Sculpture by Ulysses Davis
Join Director of Education and Senior Curator Harry DeLorme for a last look at the virtuosic woodcarvings of Ulysses Davis before the exhibition closes. This event is free to Telfair Members or with museum admission.
Art Start: Stroller & Toddler Tour
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.
Featured Artist - Darcy Melton: Seeing Value, Defining Contrast, and Understanding Varied Line Weight
In this two-day workshop (Jan. 27 & 28), Darcy Melton will guide you through seeing value, defining contrast, and understanding varied line weight to create a refined and impactful duo-chromatic still life.
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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