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Art Start: Stroller and Toddler Tour
The Open Road: Photography and the American Roadtrip Our youngest patrons are invited to the museum for story time, a special tour, and an art activity. Strollers, crying babies, toddlers, and older siblings are all welcome here. Come play and learn with us! $5 per child / adult members free / adult non-members $12
Find out more »Rolling Stone Press: Human Considerations exhibition opens
Human Considerations is the second exhibition to spotlight a portfolio of lithographic prints from the Rolling Stone Press, a professional lithography atelier that operated in Atlanta from 1984 until 2005. The founder, Wayne Kline, worked with regional and national artists to produce hand-printed, limited editions of each artist’s vision. Human Considerations will celebrate artists in the portfolio such as Beverly Buchanan, Howard Finster, and Stefanie Jackson, who used descriptive imagery to tell a broader story about humanity.
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Savannah Families Abroad: the Consumption of Culture in the 19th Century Our youngest patrons are invited to the museum for story time, a special tour, and an art activity. Strollers, crying babies, toddlers, and older siblings are all welcome here. Come play and learn with us! $5 per child / adult members free / adult non-members $12
Find out more »Free Family Day: Open Road
Celebrate the end of summer and the exhibition The Open Road, with free family activities about travel and photography. Contribute to a map of summer travels, make an end-of-summer postcard, and talk to prominent local photographers about their work and travels. Investment is provided by the City of Savannah.
Find out more »Radiance exhibition closes
Radiance is a series of three mixed media and video projection installations created by Teri Yarbrow and Max Almy and a new immersive VR work created with Josephine Leong. The works explore elaborate multilayered patterns, geometric designs, and ancient iconography reimagined in luminous and transforming media works. The works are informed by a range of concepts, from the power of ancient symbols to contemporary theories in physics that posit the interconnectedness and pulsing aliveness of all things.
Find out more »Telfair Academy closed for maintenance
Telfair Academy will be closed the week of August 5−11, 2018 for scheduled maintenance. We appreciate your patience as we take this time to preserve our historic site.
Find out more »Deadline for Entries: FAAA Small Works Exhibition
Artist members of FAAA are invited to submit work for an exhibition of small works in the Jepson Center’s Morrison Community Gallery, opening September 20. Works must not exceed 24 inches in any dimension. This exhibition is open only to current FAAA members. Registration opens May 1, and the submission deadline is August 10. Guidelines and registration will be available online starting May 1.
Find out more »Art Start: Stroller and Toddler Tour
Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America Our youngest patrons are invited to the museum for story time, a special tour, and an art activity. Strollers, crying babies, toddlers, and older siblings are all welcome here. Come play and learn with us! $5 per child / adult members free / adult non-members $12
Find out more »Savannah Families Abroad: Lecture and Reception
Join Shannon Browning-Mullis, Curator of History and Decorative Arts, for a talk that examines the travels of 19th-century Savannahians relating to the exhibition "Savannah Families Abroad: the Consumption of Culture in the 19th Century." A reception will follow. Members free / non-members $8 Pre-registration required, space is limited.
Find out more »The Language of Vision exhibition opens
The Language of Vision: Early Twentieth-Century Photography brings together the work of four eminent artists from Telfair Museums’ permanent collection: Ralph Steiner, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Walker Evans, and Helen Levitt. Connected historically and often personally through artist social circles, their work shares key stylistic attributes that will be explored in the exhibition. These photographers made work during the first half of the 20th century when photography was still being questioned for its validity as an art form.
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