Looking for art in the Savannah area? Go no further. Here s our list of exhibitions, galleries and museums.
Teachers as Trailblazers in Savannah: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon-4 p.m. Sunday May 12-July 31; Massie Heritage Center, 207 E. Gordon St.; $9 for adults, $7 for seniors.
This 19th century to the present exhibition pays tribute to many educators in Savannah who have fought against rigid societal norms and legislation to pave the road toward progress. The narrative spans over two centuries and outlines the evolution of Savannah’s educational system, focusing on its trailblazers. Themes include a re-imaged principal’s office from 1856, the African American Experience in Education, Kindergarten and the Progressive Movement, Youth Organizations and Empowerment, and Contemporary Icons.
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Memory, Ephemerality, and Intuitive Making: noon-5 p.m. May 6-9; The Gallery at Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St.; reception 6-9 p.m. and gallery talk 7 p.m. May 7; An MFA Thesis Exhibition by L. Edward Smith; sulfurstudios.org; Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/4jTxuLsYp.
The work is a body of portraits of influential women in Smith’s life done in crochet, collaborative installations with his aunt and mother, and automatic writing and drawings resulting from the process of making. The work is all based on memories and ephemeral situations, created in an intuitive process with repurposed materials.
Star Tap by Emily Furr. Furr paints celestial visions that place cool, hard-edged objects within weightless, star-filled voids. Furr’s artwork plays with a codex of motifs, exploring their potential formations through a process of repetition. The artist’s serialized tropes take the shape of tongues laden with hallucinogenic sugar cubes, sloping conveyor belts adorned with astral points, rocket engines with acutely sharp, almost erotic edges, tubes, chains, and myriad metal hardware. Furr’s paintings can be positioned in relation to postmodern artists such as Lee Lozano (American, 1930–99) and Forrest Bess (American, 1911–77), whose depictions of archetypal shapes, colors, and quotidian objects…
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2021 Savannah Series: April, May, June separate solo exhibitions; Grand Bohemian Gallery, The Mansion on Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton St.; kesslercollection.com or call 912.721.5007. Savannah native, painter Dottie Turner Leatherwood, “A Conversation with the Savannah Landscape,” opening reception 4-7 p.m. April 15, exhibit through May 15. SCAD graduate, multi-disciplinary artist Amiri Geuka Farris, “Inspire and Surprise, Art in Public Spaces,” opening reception 4-7 p.m. May 27, exhibit through June 27. Public artist, Savannah resident Jerome Meadows, a talk entitled “The Importance of Art in Public Spaces,” on the significance of public art to the community and how it reflects our society at large on 6 p.m. May 27.