The ever-popular monks of Drepung Loseling monastery return to the Jepson Center for the first time in over four years to create another incredible sand mandala. Their weeklong residency is […]
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Telfair says pull up a chair
The seating objects call the viewer into a high society, international dialog opened by the 18th century and carried on through the end of the 19th
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GA Power gives Telfair HUGE check, literally
Georgia Power vice president Cathy Hill presented the Telfair Museums with a check for $25,000 to support free family programming at the Jepson Center. Family Days are offered one Saturday […]
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Sound decisions
There’s a new breed of artist today, making music that doesn’t easily fit into one tired old category or another. Boundaries are crossed, lines blurred and erased, and in the […]
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Eastside Story
Before there was a golf course, gas station or water treatment facility there, President Street hosted a shipbuilding facility, a shanty town of railroad workers, a rice plantation, a Civil […]
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Marks on the walls
Even after a year of particularly diverse offerings — from early 20th Century French Surrealists to the art and technology highlighted during Pulse — "I Have Marks to Make," the […]
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Hello, world, this is America
Most everyone is familiar with the pop culture-influenced abstract art of Andy Warhol in the late ‘60s. But Warhol’s fame was in some ways made possible by other American abstract […]
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Flipping the Birds
The opening of Matt Hebermehl’s new installation “Birds in Flight” at the Jepson Center last week was the first time the museum’s atrium has had art hanging from its glass […]
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Exhibits & openings this week
2D*2.5D*3D – A collection of work from three artists: Amanda Hanlon (linoleum block relief prints ironwork), Carol Williams (assemblage of found objects), and Dicky Stone (turned wood sculptures). Kobo Gallery, […]
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Art kick-start
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. […]
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‘Diversity across the spectrum’
On Thursday evening, journalist and author Farai Chideya stops in Savannah to give a talk during the Jepson Center’s Juneteenth programming. Chideya, who’s written four books and contributed to numerous […]
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Twilight Visions
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, […]