“It’s one of the most popular and requested programs we’ve ever done,” says Harry DeLorme, senior curator of education for the Telfair Museums. “People always ask about it. The monks seem to connect with people on a number of levels.”
Visual Arts
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Frogtown to Victory
Jones’ images portray the blighted urban landscapes within the MLK Boulevard corridor that have succumbed to the intrusion of the Interstate 16 flyover.
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In praise of public art
Public art takes central stage at Savannah Gardens with the city-funded sculpture currently being created by Jerome Meadows in his Indigo Sky Community Art Gallery.
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Shannon Christopher’s singular vision
The Muse is an exhibition of Christopher’s Cockspur photos, opening at the Tybee Island Social Club with a reception for the artist Wednesday, Aug. 28.
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Santander’s send-off at Indigo Sky
Deepening the viewer’s experience through a few of the works, Santander provided laser light pointers so that viewers can follow the white spaces around the forms as mazes.
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Art March grows
Collaborative installations can go a couple of directions, and I was reminded of a few disasters I saw in the 1990s in Greenwich Village and SoHo galleries. The intentions of such efforts can read great on paper, but often fail as a cohesive installation. Somehow ‘The Capstone’ works on both levels.
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First Friday Art March
Music seems to be playing a more prominent role in the First Friday Art March. Lauren Flotte, Desotorow Gallery’s board president, says, “We’re going to be bringing in more musical acts, with a DJ welcoming people into the entrance of De Soto Avenue, and Electric Grandma closing it off.”
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He only gets a second
For the past 10 years, Leonard White has been granted close access to the main stage of the New Orleans Jazz Festival, allowing him to snap photos of musical icons like Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder, Stevie Nicks and Sheryl Crow.
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New York State of mind
The work is George Bellows at his most sublime in his commentary on man’s struggle against nature.
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Art March builds on momentum
‘Nar Bar will be a total slow-brewed coffee experience. We’re working out the details with local roaster Perc Coffee to make this a gourmet brewed-coffee house, but the art is always going to come first for us. Nar Bar won’t overshadow the Sicky Nar Nar artists at all.’
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Non-Fiction Gallery buzzes with anticipation
‘The creation of a connection to the community while developing a place where contemporary art can feel at home in Savannah is our goal.’
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Non-Fiction Gallery is wide awake
‘We’re three painters and photographer, but we don’t want to put on painting show after painting show. We’re going to push the diversity of art forms even more.’