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Museums / Exhibits
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150 Years of Architectural Elegance: The Central of Georgia Railroad’s 1856 Gray Building Headquarters
What:150 Years of Architectural Elegance: The Central of Georgia Railroad’s 1856 Gray Building HeadquartersWhere:SCAD Museum of ArtWhen:January 1st, 2010 through December 31st, 2010Contact:Free. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. SCAD Museum of Art (Kiah Hall, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). www.scad.edu/museumDescription:These exhibitions chronicle the history of SCAD's Kiah Hall. Once the headquarters of the venerable Central of Georgia Railroad and now a college art museum, the landmark Greek Revival building epitomizes the elegance of mid-19th-century architecture. Exhibition assistance was provided through a grant from the Georgia Humanities Council. Complementing the historical overview of the building is a small photographic exhibition that documents the recently completed exterior preservation of the structure, a project made possible by a major Save America's Treasures federal grant and additional assistance from the Charles A. Frueauff Foundation and the Frances Wood Wilson Foundation.
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Mapping the Past: Antique Cartography from the Newton Collection
What:Mapping the Past: Antique Cartography from the Newton CollectionWhere:SCAD Museum of ArtWhen:January 1st, 2010 through December 31st, 2010Contact:Free. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. SCAD Museum of Art (Kiah Hall, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). www.scad.edu/museumDescription:Maps depicting North America, Great Britain and the world are on view in the museum's three map galleries. Highlights include 1597 maps from the earliest atlas of the Americas, 1776 military maps, and other 17th- and 19th-century maps, some of them hand-colored. Cartographers include Wytfliet, Hondius, Monath, Lotter, d'Anville, Faden, Lodge, Cary and Wyld.
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The Master Eye: Photography from the Rhoades Collection
What:The Master Eye: Photography from the Rhoades CollectionWhere:SCAD Museum of ArtWhen:January 1st, 2010 through December 31st, 2010Contact:Free. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. SCAD Museum of Art (Kiah Hall, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). www.scad.edu/museumDescription:The photographs in this SCAD Museum of Art exhibition include iconic examples from pioneering 19th-century practitioners and major 20th-century photographers, who wielded their cameras to capture images of arresting landscapes, richly textured narratives, elegant fashion scenes, singular still lifes and powerful portraits. Featured photographers include Mathew Brady, Eadweard Muybridge, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Annie Leibovitz and other celebrated masters.
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The Story of Silver in Savannah: Creating and Collecting since the 18th Century
What:The Story of Silver in Savannah: Creating and Collecting since the 18th CenturyWhere:Telfair Academy, 121 Barnard StreetWhen:March 6th, 2010 through August 1st, 2010Contact:912.790.8800 / www.telfair.org
Description:Building on the Telfair Museum of Art’s Savannah-related silver holdings, this notable exhibition showcases pieces from numerous public and private collections featuring locally-made silver as well as wares manufactured in other American cities and in Europe. The Story of Silver in Savannah will feature more than 400 pieces of silver connected to the city, exploring the evolving relationship between this prized metal and the inhabitants of Savannah.
Free to members or with museum admission ($15 adult admission fee grants access [one-time visit] to each of the Telfair’s three sites for weeklong period following date of purchase; check website for complete admission prices)
Sun. 1-5 pm; Mon. 12-5 pm; Tues.-Sat. 10 am-5 pm
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Soldier Portraits: Contemporary Wet Plate Collodion Photographs by Ellen Susan
What:Soldier Portraits: Contemporary Wet Plate Collodion Photographs by Ellen SusanWhere:Telfair’s Jepson Center, 207 West York StreetWhen:April 10th, 2010 through July 25th, 2010Contact:912.790.8800
www.telfair.org
Description:Photographer Ellen Susan employs the 150-year-old collodion wet plate photographic process to create compelling portraits of active-duty members of the United States Army, many of them from the 3rd Infantry Division. This complex and rarely used photographic technique, which enjoyed great popularity during the Civil War era, creates timeless images of today’s servicemen and women. Susan’s photographs effectively personalize the image of the soldier, providing a counterpoint to the largely anonymous representations of soldiers that the artist experienced in newspapers and on television.
Free to members or with museum admission ($15 adult admission fee grants access [one-time visit] to each of the Telfair’s three sites for weeklong period following date of purchase; check website for complete admission prices)
Sun. 12-5 pm; Mon., Wed., Fri., & Sat. 10 am-5 pm; Thurs. 10 am-8 pm (Jepson Center is closed on Tuesdays)
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Philip Perkis: Fifty Years of Photographs
What:Philip Perkis: Fifty Years of PhotographsWhere:Telfair’s Jepson Center, 207 West York StreetWhen:April 16th, 2010 through September 19th, 2010Contact:912.790.8800
www.telfair.org
Description:This exhibition spans the 50-year career of New York-based artist Philip Perkis—one of the country’s most widely respected photographers. With a gift for capturing moments of heartbreaking honesty and unparalleled beauty, Perkis presents a world on the brink of transcendence.
Free to members or with museum admission ($15 adult admission fee grants access [one-time visit] to each of the Telfair’s three sites for weeklong period following date of purchase; check website for complete admission prices)
Sun. 12-5 pm; Mon., Wed., Fri., & Sat. 10 am-5 pm; Thurs. 10 am-8 pm (Jepson Center is closed on Tuesdays)
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Fashion in Focus: Photos and Evening Wear from the SCAD Museum of Art Collection
What:Fashion in Focus: Photos and Evening Wear from the SCAD Museum of Art CollectionWhere:SCAD Museum of ArtWhen:May 1st, 2010 through September 30th, 2010Contact:Free. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. SCAD Museum of Art (Kiah Hall, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). www.scad.edu/museumDescription:This exhibition of more than 30 objects highlights recent couture gifts to the SCAD Museum of Art including evening dresses by contemporary designers Ralph Rucci, Oscar de la Renta for Balmain, Chanel, Isabel Toledo, Valentino, and Lars Nilsson for Bill Blass. Among the fashion photographs on view are images from the past few decades by noted photographers Sir Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, Karl Lagerfeld, David Bailey, Arthur Elgort, Herb Ritts and others, in images that graced the pages of Vogue or other fashion journals and featured the top models of the time.
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SCAD Summer Sales Exhibition: “Planet Home"
What:SCAD Summer Sales Exhibition: “Planet Home"Where:SCAD ExhibitionsWhen:July 14th, 2010 through September 13th, 2010Contact:Free. Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m, Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m, Sunday 1-4 p.m. Gutstein Gallery (201 E. Broughton St.) www.scad.edu/exhibitions.Description:In a time when the concern for natural resources is paramount, artists continue to be inspired by the earth's ever changing topography. "Planet Home," SCAD's annual summer sales exhibition, unites a diverse range of media in pieces by SCAD students, faculty and alumni, which reflect on the all-encompassing theme of nature. Ranging from the traditional to the experimental, these works, inspired by landscapes and cityscapes, flora and fauna, geography and geology, and even the cosmos, demonstrate SCAD artists' creative responses to the natural environment.
Special Events
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Beach Discovery Walks
What:Beach Discovery WalksWhere:South Beach - Everyday: 10:30-11:30 a.m. or North Beach - Mondays and Thursdays: 4-5 p.m.When:May 28th, 2010 through August 8th, 2010Contact:912-786-5917 or TybeeMarineScience.orgDescription:Join a marine science educator on an one-hour guided discovery walk along Tybee's beach to learn about coastal Georgia's tides, dunes, and the wildlife that live in and around the ocean.
South Beach - Everyday: 10:30-11:30 a.m. or North Beach - Mondays and Thursdays: 4-5 p.m.
Fees - Walks, Talks, and Treks are $10 per participant, kids three and under - free -
Marsh Treks
What:Marsh TreksWhere:Tybee Island Marine Science CenterWhen:May 28th, 2010 through August 8th, 2010Contact:912-786-5917 or TybeeMarineScience.orgDescription:Guided one-hour exploration of the jewels in Georgia's salt marshes. Explore the marsh's marvelous mud for fiddler crabs, snails and more. Learn why the estuary is called the ocean's nursery. Tuesdays and Fridays: 4-5 p.m.
Tuesdays and Fridays: 4-5 p.m.
Fees - Walks, Talks, and Treks are $10 per participant, kids three and under - free -
Turtle Talks
What:Turtle TalksWhere:Tybee Island Marine Science CenterWhen:May 28th, 2010 through August 8th, 2010Contact:912-786-5917 or TybeeMarineScience.orgDescription:A 90 minute intro to the amazing lives of sea turtles! Learn about anatomy and natural adaptations, then stroll on the beach to discuss nesting habitat and Tybee’s conservation efforts.
Fees - Walks, Talks, and Treks are $10 per participant, kids three and under - free -
Coastal Georgia Gallery
What:Coastal Georgia GalleryWhere:Tybee Island Marine Science CenterWhen:May 28th, 2010 through August 8th, 2010Contact:912-786-5917 or TybeeMarineScience.orgDescription:750 square feet of Coastal Georgia, featuring: baby alligators, polka-dot batfish, spider crab, puffer, flounder, clown fish, diamondback terrapins, corn snake, horseshoe crab, loggerhead sea turtle, red lionfish and a touch tank of creatures indigenous to the Georgia coast!
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Summer Camp at the Roundhouse Railroad Museum
What:Summer Camp at the Roundhouse Railroad MuseumWhere:Roundhouse Railroad Museum 601 W. Harris St. Savannah, GA 31401When:June 14th, 2010 through August 5th, 2010Contact:912.651.6823 x203 childrensevents@chsgeorgia.orgDescription:4 weeks of summer camp for children from June to August. Call or email for dates of each camp and additional info.
Tickets/Cost $135 per week, per child
Time 9am - 1pm
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“Laughs For Lemonade: An Evening of Comedy to Benefit Mom’s Lemonade Fund”
What:“Laughs For Lemonade: An Evening of Comedy to Benefit Mom’s Lemonade Fund”Where:Lucas TheatreWhen:July 17th, 2010Contact:Tickets are available online at www.tickets.scadboxoffice.com or by phone at 912-525-5050.Description:8 p.m. Funds raised from this comedy event will support patients coping with ovarian cancer at the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute at Memorial University Medical Center.
Laughs for Lemonade features Karen Morgan, finalist on Nick at Nite's Search for the Funniest Mom in America, and Nancy Witter, a four-time New York City MAC Award-winning stand-up comedian.
Tickets prices are $100 for VIP seating and $25 for general admission.
