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Art Start: Complex Uncertainties
Stroller and Toddler Tours Our youngest patrons are invited to the museum for story time, a special tour, and an art activity. Strollers, crying babies, 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 »Kirk Varnedoe: In the Middle at the Modern opens
Kirk Varnedoe: In the Middle at the Modern is an exhibition curated by Triple Candie and commissioned and organized by Telfair Museums. A multimedia exhibition that challenges reality, questions authenticity, and ignites discussions about the power of museums to bestow objects with “high” or “low” value, Kirk Varnedoe: In the Middle at the Modern will reflect on Varnedoe’s contributions to curatorial practice and examine the first major exhibition he organized as chief curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA, High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture (October 7, 1990–January 15, 1991), with the hindsight of three decades.
Find out more »FAAA Field Trip to Savannah’s African Art Museum
Join the Friends for a special behind-the-scenes tour at Savannah’s new African Art Museum, with a welcome by museum founder Don Kole. Free to FAAA members.
Find out more »Rodin: Inspired by Beethoven lecture and luncheon
Former Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation fellow and musicologist Olivia Mattis, PhD, will explore the inspiration Rodin derived from the music of Beethoven. Lunch to follow at Jepson Center.
Find out more »GMCS Home Tour
Join us for a tour of the home and collection of Charlie and Barbara Cortese. Address details will be communicated in a forthcoming Melchers Society newsletter. GMCS members only.
Find out more »FAAA Members Small Works Exhibition opens
Telfair presents the first ever exhibition by the artists members of the museum’s Friends of African American Arts member group.
Find out more »Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Lecture by Kimberly Camp
For the fall 2017 Lawrence Lecture Telfair Museums presents a talk by distinguished museum director and artist Kimberly Camp, who will tell the fascinating and largely unknown story of collector Albert C. Barnes and his relationship with the African American community. Ms. Camp is a former director of the Experimental Gallery at the Smithsonian, the Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, and in 1998 became the first president and CEO in the history of The Barnes Foundation.
Find out more »TAGtalks
TAG Members Only. Guest Speaker: Tiffani Taylor, an American painter and graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design
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