150 Years of Architectural Elegance: The Central of Georgia Railroad’s 1856 Gray Building Headquarters  

SCAD Museum of Art  

January 1st, 2010 through December 31st, 2010

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/museum  

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.  

Mapping the Past: Antique Cartography from the Newton Collection  

SCAD Museum of Art  

January 1st, 2010 through December 31st, 2010

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/museum  

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.  

The Master Eye: Photography from the Rhoades Collection  

SCAD Museum of Art  

January 1st, 2010 through December 31st, 2010

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/museum  

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.  

The Story of Silver in Savannah: Creating and Collecting since the 18th Century  

Telfair Academy, 121 Barnard Street  

March 6th, 2010 through August 1st, 2010

912.790.8800 / www.telfair.org
 

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
 

Philip Perkis: Fifty Years of Photographs  

Telfair’s Jepson Center, 207 West York Street  

April 16th, 2010 through September 19th, 2010

912.790.8800
www.telfair.org
 

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)

 

Fashion in Focus: Photos and Evening Wear from the SCAD Museum of Art Collection  

SCAD Museum of Art  

May 1st, 2010 through September 30th, 2010

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/museum  

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.  

SCAD Summer Sales Exhibition: “Planet Home"  

SCAD Exhibitions  

July 14th, 2010 through September 13th, 2010

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.  

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.  

Beach Discovery Walks  

South Beach - Everyday: 10:30-11:30 a.m. or North Beach - Mondays and Thursdays: 4-5 p.m.  

May 28th, 2010 through August 8th, 2010

912-786-5917 or TybeeMarineScience.org  

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  

Tybee Island Marine Science Center  

May 28th, 2010 through August 8th, 2010

912-786-5917 or TybeeMarineScience.org  

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  

Tybee Island Marine Science Center  

May 28th, 2010 through August 8th, 2010

912-786-5917 or TybeeMarineScience.org  

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  

Tybee Island Marine Science Center  

May 28th, 2010 through August 8th, 2010

912-786-5917 or TybeeMarineScience.org  

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!
Coastal Georgia Gallery admission - Adults $4, Kids $3 (under 3 free)  

Summer Camp at the Roundhouse Railroad Museum  

Roundhouse Railroad Museum 601 W. Harris St. Savannah, GA 31401  

June 14th, 2010 through August 5th, 2010

912.651.6823 x203 childrensevents@chsgeorgia.org  

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