Telfair Academy Guild presents Telfair in Bloom 2018, a vibrant festival of art and flowers featuring work by local designers. Telfair in Bloom will bring the museum to life with spring flora! Works this year will be from Telfairs’ permanent collection as well as Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection. Designers will interpret […]
Film screening in the Neises Auditorium Ulla von Brandenburg’s (German, b. 1974) 2016 film, titled It Has a Golden Sun and Elderly Grey Moon, was filmed as one unedited and continuous shot and features seven performers engaging with a monolithic white staircase that acts as a stage for their danced narratives. Their movements, collectively and […]
AQUAPHOBIA uses VR to connect inner psychological landscapes with exterior ecosystems. The work is inspired by psychological studies of the treatment of aquaphobia—fear of water—as an entry point to transform perceptions of our relationship to future water levels and climates. AQUAPHOBIA is a full-scale virtual replica of Louis Valentino Jr. Park and Pier in Redhook, Brooklyn, […]
Considered one of America’s most influential contemporary artists, Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1953) became interested in the unique Gullah culture found on the Sea Islands off the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina while studying folklore in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. Because of the islands’ physical isolation from the mainland and […]
Paul Stephen Benjamin (American, b. 1966) is a conceptual artist whose work is a meditation on the color black, specifically as an entry point into discussions of identity, race, and masculinity. Benjamin’s artistic suggestion is that a cohesive message about identity is all but impossible but still worthy of exploration. Benjamin creates multilayered and large-scale […]
For more than two decades, this perennial exhibition has reminded us that art making is for everyone and that art can play a healing role in our lives. The exhibition features work by participants of all ages from Telfair’s outreach to local organizations and from community partners including the Rehabilitation Hospital of Savannah; Coastal Center […]
Avanguardia, an exhibition by Savannah-based artist Lisa D. Watson (American, b. 1967), explores the encroachment of the constructed environment on the natural landscape. Watson uses 95 percent reclaimed materials in her artmaking to keep her ecological footprint small. Her environmentally-conscious practice amplifies the exhibition’s primary concerns: that modern conveniences demanded by a growing human population […]
In its presentation of nearly 50 paintings created from 1880 to 1940—mainly landscapes and genre scenes—Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection traces the journey of Impressionism and related avant-garde styles of painting from their origins in 19th-century France to the American South. The radical changes wrought by the rise of the salon system […]
Beautifully shot in 35mm film and transferred to digital file, The Hardly Boys In Hardly Gold is a high-comedy action adventure written and directed by William Wegman, starring his well-known Weimaraners: Fay Ray, Battina, Crooky, and Chundo. The Hardly family spends its summers at the Hardly Inn in Maine, where the Hardly Boys play tennis, […]
Listen now! KCHUNG Radio is taking over the Telfair Museums’ airwaves this Spring! KCHUNG is a cooperative broadcast platform based in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Placing a premium on ease of participation from as wide a community as possible, KCHUNG views broadcasting as an ideal form for gathering and amplifying a multitude of diverse voices […]
