Fresh-faced, beautiful, and eight months pregnant, photographer Anna Ottum (b.1987) greets me in the sun-filled Baldwin Park home she shares with photographer husband, Parker Stewart. We are both struck by […]
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JULIA CHRISTIAN: A Lifetime of Creativity
Julia and Bob Christian’s gallery on Taylor Street is a feast for the eyes. Open to the public three days a week, the second-floor parlor of their brick rowhouse lights […]
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Anything goes for Telfair’s talented Erin Dunn
Telfair Museums is fortunate to have Erin Dun as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. This bright and articulate young woman earned her BA in Art History and English Literature […]
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BETH LOGAN: Celebratory Panic at R03 Gallery
I have written before about the little jewel of a gallery with the intriguing name located on the edge of Savannah’s Historic District… “Rule of Three” refers both to the […]
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A WELCOME RETURN: The Isle of Hope Art & Music Festival
For me, one of the more difficult pandemic outcomes was not having my ‘soul-cup’ filled at art receptions and art shows. And of all the shows, the one I missed […]
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TELLING THE STORY OF A LIFE: The art collection of Alexandra Trujillo de Taylor
Several years ago, my friend Jessica Lebos referred to Alexandra Trujillo de Taylor in this publication as the “dazzling downtown doyenne” whose “parties are so legendary that invitations are coveted […]
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ART PATROL: Beth Logan’s Recommendations
Be sure to support the “LOVE SHAX” show opening this Saturday, October 8 at Location Gallery, 251 Bull Street. 26 LGBTQIA artists have created over 150 birdhouses (each measuring approximately […]
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GWEN FRAZIER-SMITH: Savannah’s Norman Rockwell
A former convenience store on DeLesseps Avenue located between the Truman Parkway and Skidaway Road, is now home to Gwen Frazier-Smith’s Urbeau Art Gallery. The artist coined the word ‘urbeau,’ […]
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Telfair Museums’ Friends of African American Arts presents ‘Vessels: the Things We Carry’
Telfair Museums’ Friends of African American Arts (FAAA) presents “Vessels,” a group exhibition that pays tribute to the things we hold and the things that carry us. The exhibition is […]
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MATT TOOLE AND RUTH SYKES: Entangled minds blown
The Old Roberds Dairy Farm at the end of Tennessee Avenue in Thunderbolt is home to over 165 acres of pastures and marsh salt flats. At the entrance to this […]
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ROBOTS ON THE HORIZON: Talking with artist John Lytle Wilson
John Lytle Wilson is a Birmingham, Alabama-based artist known for his colorful murals and paintings. Taking inspiration from 80s era cartoons and movies, Wilson paints robots, animals and storylines into […]
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WORTH THE DRIVE: “Through the Eyes of Eric Hartley”
We often think of galleries and museums as the only legitimate venues to display art, and consciously, or subconsciously, view places of business as inferior locations, and, by extension, consider […]