Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia hires new chief curator from Smithsonian
Alexander Mann. Photo: Libby Weiler.
SAVANNAH, GA
.-Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia the oldest public art museum in the South and the first U.S. museum founded by a woman has hired an accomplished art-world veteran as its new chief curator and director of curatorial affairs.
Crawford Alexander Mann III will join Telfair in November 2021 from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., where he has been curator of prints and drawings since 2017. At the Smithsonian, Mann has organized world-class exhibitions including the major upcoming survey Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano. Before the Smithsonian, he served as the Joan and Macon Brock Curator of American Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, and as the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, Rhode Island.
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