Making Marks 2024
December 8, 2024 - Spring 2025 Jepson CenterTelfair’s Making Marks exhibition is the essence of community art, showcasing works by diverse individuals of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities, and highlighting the empowering experience of creating. Artmaking provides opportunity for healing, transformation, and discovery, and brings people together to connect our community. This exhibition represents hundreds of local artists and includes artwork created during Telfair’s extensive outreach sessions with various community partners, including local health and social service organizations, as well as individual submissions from students and veterans. Themes found in this exhibition reflect the positive impact art can make in our lives and remind us that artmaking is for everyone.
2024 Making Marks Community Partners:
St. Joseph’s/Candler Hospital –Inpatient Rehabilitation, Georgia Infirmary, and Movement Disorders Program, Union Mission, Inc. –Ben and Betty Barnes Center, Park Place Outreach, Inc., Senior Citizens, Inc. –Ruth Byck Adult Day Health Center, Savannah Center for Blind and Low Vision, Chatham County Sheriff’s Office, Youth Intercept Program, EmployAbility, Savannah Speech and Hearing Center –Stroke Survivors’ Support Group, City of Savannah Therapeutics Program, City of Savannah Adult Day Care Program, Coastal Harbor Behavioral Health, LIFE, Inc., Savannah VA Clinic, Savannah Regional Youth Detention Center, Tharros Place, Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools System, and Telfair’s Veterans Studio Art Program –Savannah Veterans of the Arts.
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Georgia Infirmary participants
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City of Savannah Adult Day Care participants with community quilt
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Youth Intercept participants tying quilt at Jepson Center
