Drawn from Telfair Museums’ permanent collection, Primary: Artists Working in Red, Yellow, and Blue explores how artists have utilized primary colors in adventurous ways to elicit brilliant experiences. Featuring works by Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, and Joan Miró, these energetic and dynamic compositions introduce viewers to the expansive possibilities of a simple palette.

‘Tideland’ is an exhibition of black and white photographs by Savannah-based photographer Parker Stewart (b. 1992). Taken between 2020 and 2024, these evocative photographs document the coast of Georgia by transporting the viewer into the visceral and primordial atmosphere of the barrier islands and inland waterways.

The SCAD Museum of Art is proud to honor our U.S. service members by participating in the annual Blue Star Museums movement. In collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and museums across America, SCAD MOA welcomes active-duty military personnel and their families with complimentary admission starting on Armed Forces Day, May 17, through Labor Day, Sept. 1, 2025. We look forward to presenting our latest exhibitions to these brave responders.

The SCAD Museum of Art joins world-renowned cultural institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the de Young Museum, San Francisco; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Dallas Museum of Art as a Blue Star Museum participant.

(Un)Grounded, a solo exhibition of new work by Iranian-American artist Raheleh Filsoofi, is an immersive multimedia installation of ceramic vessels, sound, and video in conversation with the pottery and landscapes on view in The Moss Mystique: Southern Women and Newcomb Pottery. Over the past two years, Filsoofi has traveled to nine states in the Southeast to collect soil, including a visit to Savannah in April 2024. She has carefully archived, processed, and extracted the clay from these locations to form the physical and symbolic content of her multidisciplinary practice. Embracing her movement as a woman and immigrant within the region, (Un)Grounded considers the legacies of Newcomb Pottery through Filsoofi’s personal identity to engage with present-day perceptions surrounding southern identity, transience, and meanings of authenticity.

In 1895, administrators in the art department at the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in New Orleans, Louisiana, a women’s higher education institution that was joined to Tulane University, started a new commercial enterprise so that their students could put the skills they learned in their art and design courses into practice. A group of potters, mostly men, created the various objects out of clays sourced throughout the South, and women graduates of the art program painted them with images of flora and fauna. Newcomb Pottery quickly received praise throughout the US for the quality of its designs and the perceived authenticity of its representation of Southern regional identity, and these strong ties to location remain present today, long after the Pottery’s closure in 1939.

This exhibition focuses on the Newcomb potters’ material and chosen subjects, their relationships to regional identity, and the Pottery’s changing approaches to these subjects over time. Tasked with representing the region through their work, Newcomb designers earned a reputation for turning to their local environment for inspiration. This exhibition explores how designs that featured repeating, semi-abstract, and carefully selected plants such as waterlilies eventually transformed into muted landscapes of moss-draped oaks and cypresses, and the way these images matched romanticized visions of the South that were growing in the 20th century. The Moss Mystique asks visitors to reconsider their ideas about what makes a place unique. In an adjacent gallery, interdisciplinary artist Raheleh Filsoofi’s new multimedia exhibition (Un)Grounded will respond to the complexities of Newcomb pottery.

Stop the annual learning “Summer Slide” by joining the LOPL Summer Reading Challenge. Readers of all ages are invited to log ten hours of reading whatever they chose, however they choose, for prizes and fun. Each LOPL branch hosts special free programming events throughout the summer. Sign up online or in-person at LOPL.

100 Days of Purpose – June 1–September 8 (ongoing)
Led by Savannah’s only lifestyle medicine physician and coaching team at Purpose & Plants, this 100-day community wellness challenge inspires simple, daily actions tied to your deeper purpose. It’s free, flexible, and designed to help you reset, recharge, and reconnect. Join the private Facebook group to access all of the free giveaways and resources.
→ Join anytime: https://purposeandplants.com/100-days-of-purpose-1

Come splash into Summer with us with a Watermelon Stand on Friday, a BBQ platter on Saturday and our how to-Hydration Station will be Sunday with all the tips and tricks to keep your pup cool this summer. 20% off Goats Milk, Bone Broth, Freeze Dried Treats and more! Stop in to all 3 locations and take a special picture and you could win Free Dog or Cat food for a year!

Step into Savannah’s rich past at the Ralston College Antique Furniture Sale, featuring over 400 remarkable pieces from the collection of Alex Raskin Antiques—previously housed in the iconic Noble Hardee Mansion.

Although the College has been privileged and proud to find appropriate uses for very many of the pieces from the Raskin collection, it is now taking the opportunity to make available those for which it has no need. This is a rare opportunity to own a piece of the city’s legacy at significant discounts.

In-person sales will take place from June 27th to July 19th, on Fridays and Saturdays, at 115 West Bolton Street between 10 AM and 4 PM, or by appointment. If you would like to view the merchandise in advance, please visit our website at ralstonantiques.myshopify.com. All sales are final.

Details:
115 West Bolton Street, Savannah, GA
Fridays & Saturdays, June 27th – July 19th
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, or by appointment (please contact ralston.antiques@ralston.ac)
To view the merchandise and make purchases, please visit our website at ralstonantiques.myshopify.com.

Highlights:
– 400 antique pieces from Savannah’s most storied shop
– Formerly housed in the Noble Hardee Mansion
– Discounted prices on elegant, one-of-a-kind furnishings
– Sale held in a historic Gothic Revival building

All sales support the ongoing educational mission of Ralston College.