Telfair Museums invites Chatham County artists to submit proposals for the third annual call to artists Boxed In/Break Out. We are excited to offer local Chatham County artists an opportunity to feature their art in the Jepson Center! This call to artists seeks entries for Boxed In/Break Out, a museum-sponsored public art installation at Telfair […]
At this moment, Telfair Museums’ installation team at is busily at work upstairs in the galleries. They have spent the past few weeks meticulously unpacking and installing a total of 32 bronze figures by French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), on loan to Telfair Museums from the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundations for the exhibition […]
With the help of our generous donors, Telfair Museums was proud to recently acquire this important soundsuit from celebrated African American artist Nick Cave. The work was purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Levy, Susan Willetts and Alan K. Pritz, Cathy and Philip Solomons, Diane and Ed Schmults, Pamela L. and […]
On September 24, 2016, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened to the public and our country acknowledged that the lives of all our citizens are worthy of cultural celebration and historical examination. In the past, the lives of African Americans (or Africans in America, depending on the particular case) have often […]
In our last episode, Shannon Browning-Mullis, Curator of History and Decorative Arts (that’s me), and Sonja Wallen, Buildings Curator, found mysterious 19th century graffiti and evidence of living spaces in the attic of the slave quarters. In this installation, we explore the dusty chambers off the basement cistern. When the original plumbing system of the […]
By Courtney McNeil, Chief Curator of Collections and Exhibitions My curatorial specialty is pre-1945 American and European art, so in the course of my work at Telfair Museums I am constantly thinking of how to bridge the gap between the past and the present in order to demonstrate how older art is still important and […]
If you’ve visited Telfair Academy lately, you might have noticed something new about the exterior. Replica busts of Aristotle and Alexander Von Humboldt have returned to the façade of the Academy. The original busts were created by Telfair Museums’ first director, Carl Brandt, specifically for Telfair Academy. They were cast in relief (or alto relievo) […]
At the Owens-Thomas House and the Telfair Academy, we’re frequently asked by visitors if Richard Richardson, George Owens, and Mary Telfair were good people. Were they bad people? Were they kind to their slaves? The fact is, they weren’t good people or bad people. They were simply humans making both good and bad decisions, decisions […]
These are exciting times at the Owens-Thomas House! A couple weeks ago, buildings curator Sonja Wallen and I were working on plans for the reinterpretation project on the second floor of the Owens-Thomas House Slave Quarters. While inspecting the space, we noticed evidence indicating that an additional set of stairs ascended into the attic. We […]
A message from Telfair Museums Director Lisa Grove on the future of the NEA & NEH As you may have heard, the incoming presidential administration announced today that their new budget will eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, which comprise 0.006 percent of the national budget. In […]
