Bill Marienella Casting is searching for men to act as extras immediately starting next week as soon as April 5 and 6 to film in Statesboro. Set in a 1950s Korean war era film called “Devotion” is looking to fill extra roles as pirates, sailors and marines.
Nicole Youngblut
Nicole Youngblut is a contributing writer for Connect Savannah, where she covers the local art and events scene. As a graduate of The Fashion Institute of Technology, she spent many years in New York City as a fashion stylist and promoter. Her passion for biographies, entertainment and the arts is the perfect mix for journalism.
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Tori Tinsley’s first solo exhibition ‘HUGS’ at Laney Contemporary
Atlanta-based artist Tori Tinsley, Master of Fine Arts and master’s degree in Art Therapy, debuts her first solo exhibition, “HUGS” at Laney Contemporary.
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Savannah African Arts Museum hosts online workshops in honor of Women’s History Month
Women’s History Month 2021 is the time to highlight the accomplishments of empowering female leaders.
The Savannah African Art Museum honors Women’s History Month with two virtual workshops. Both on March 27, “Celebrating African Women Hidden Figures” and, a second virtual workshop, “History Maker Mayor Edna Jackson, Savannah’s First African American Woman Mayor, who served from 2012-2016, shares her Africa Experience.”
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Christto and Andrew debut first U.S. exhibition ‘A Message from Venus’ at SCAD Museum of Art
Christto and Andrew are an international recognized duo that use contemporary images to portray the future, as an exploration of evolution of time and nature. The two formed a global collective upon meeting at college in Spain and have continued to work together while being based apart. Christto is based in Doha, Qatar and Andrew is currently in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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‘Let go of control, all of it’
Today, Schroeder works out of his sunlit, window-walled home studio in Savannah, also teaching painting at SCAD since 2005. Creating works with an inseparable synergy of painting as meditation in his at home-studio, a recent transition from his pre-pandemic studio at Southern Pine, and before that his space in Starland.
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Artist’s first solo exhibit calls attention to cosmic void
Emily Furr’s new solo exhibit at the SCAD Museum of Art challenges our perception of the world, the capitalist society we live in, and incongruences within our universe and nature. Star Tap calls attention to the cosmic void played out in society and life through a postmodern lens and dystopian trip of her works from the last three years, most of them made in 2020.
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Colonial-style ceramicist Tammy Zettlemoyer offers workshops at Savannah’s Wormsloe Historic Site
For the past nine years, ceramicist Tammy Zettlemoyer has been on the road, traveling across the country packing and unpacking her beloved pottery pieces, setting up shop steps away from […]
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Savannah-based artist Bradley Collins ‘Found a Job’ at The Sentient Bean
As a student at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Bradley Collins began a journey of odd jobs that ranged from monotonously moving boxes off an 18-wheeler to picking […]
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The Savannah Stage Company presents a virtual version of ‘Alice in Wonderland’
The Savannah Stage Company is inviting schoolchildren down the rabbit hole by presenting an imaginative virtual production of Alice in Wonderland. Since the Savannah-based troupe remains unable to stage large-scale […]
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Women Uninterrupted: ‘Traces of Being’ online photo exhibit features trio of SCAD grads
An online exhibit is providing insight to the creative processes of three women photographers who each have Savannah connections, and who are persevering through the pandemic with varying artistic approaches. […]
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In the ‘Waiting Room’ with Marcus Kenney
MARCUS KENNEY (M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design 1999) is a multi-disciplinary artist for the last 30 years, 25 of which he has spent living in Savannah. During the […]
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Inside Ana A.’s sustainable accessories workshop
“My workshop is sustainable. Each piece is one of a kind. I’m a designer, artist, and artisan. I love working with my hands. I love to design,” says Ana Barragan. […]