The dog days of summer might be slowly coming to an end for the local visual arts scene, which is showing the first signs of waking from its summer siesta. There's no groggy eye-rubbing as we regain our bearings, and this week offers up a little something for everyone with three very diverse events that will carry you right through the weekend.

Sundays might happen once a week, but the process of documenting church services across the city was a project more than a decade in the making for local professor Ja Jahannes, whose exhibit Sunday in Savannah opened at the Beach Institute last week.

On May 17, I stood at the center of an art gallery. I looked around, observing the paintings and sculptures that decorated the walls and accented the room.

Although artists and engineers might seem like strange bedfellows, the link between art and technology is clear. In much the same way that developments in digital media irreversibly changed film, photography and music, at one time it was electricity and the camera which were the cutting edge, changing how artists and audiences alike viewed the world around them.

Several years ago, the first time I heard about a painter named Panhandle Slim, it immediately evoked an image of some artistically inclined drifter riding the rails with an easel and some acrylic paints, who showed up downtown one day with an armload of colorful, primitive portraits and tried to earn some drinking money hawking pictures of pop culture icons and rock stars.

Sculpture is one of the oldest forms of art in human history, but it isn’t as widely appreciated as it once was, according to one local artist.

Jack Metcalf is bidding farewell to Savannah after several years here as an artist and bartender. He waves goodbye, not with a tear in his eye, but with his art hanging for a solo show.

While this week’s Savannah Urban Arts Festival features a ton of cool stuff — screenings, vinyl sales, poetry slams, hip hop jams, a video game tournament, and even skateboarding — there’s no doubt what the premier attraction is.

An exhibit of portraits by local photographer Ellen Susan opened earlier this month at the Jepson Center. Susan creates portraits of contemporary soldiers using a 150 year-old process, known as wet collodion, first introduced around the time of the Civil War.

Mother Nature takes on a whole new look in the works of photographer Carly Jurach, whose installation Where the Winged Things Are combines ethereally beautiful women with the colorful plumage of male birds.

One might say graffiti is the ultimate “urban art” — therefore it seems appropriate that a graffiti workshop helps kick off this year’s Savannah Urban Arts Festival.

Formally trained as an illustrator, Lavar Munroe is searching for a way to bridge the gap between his experience creating visual content for books and magazines and his desire to create work that could be considered fine art.

Two very different, yet equally intriguing artists will be showcased at the opening of a new show at Iocovozzi Fine Art on Friday, March 19.

Since January, an ambitious group of young artists has created a new kind of space for art in Savannah. Part gallery, part studio, their goal is open up the art community through the spirit of collaboration. Fittingly, the new space is called the Co–Laboratory.

Like so many people who were tired of their nine to five jobs, Emily Pilloton dreamed of doing bigger things, of impacting the world in a positive way. Unlike most people, she did something about it, leaving behind a job to found Project H, a non–profit design group dedicated to re–focusing design away from materials and toward solutions for real world problems.