May First Friday Festivities at ARTS Southeast

Join us for a host of exciting art events in conjunction with First Fridays in Starland!

– IMPACT Arts + Culture Magazine Vol. 4 No. 1 Release
– Sulfur Street Fair
– Opening Reception: “Tomorrow and Yesterday, Selections from The Do Good Fund” in The Ellis Gallery
– Project Finale: April ON::View Artist-in-Residence Ainaz Alipour
– Closing Reception: “Begin Again” in the ARTS Southeast Supporter Gallery

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We’re excited to celebrate the release of our spring issue of IMPACT Arts + Culture Magazine, Vol. 4 No. 1, featuring:
– Alan Rothschild, Director of Columbus, GA’s The Do Good Fund – with an extended photo spread featuring artists: Gordon Parks, Jill Frank, Baldwin Lee, Mark Steinmetz, Brandon Thibodeaux, and many more!
– Award-winning writer, oral historian, and teaching artist Trelani Michelle interviews the co-founders of the Savannah Photo Club
– Noah Reyes catches up with Amy Pleasant about her exhibitions across the South
– Questions for a Curator with SCAD Museum of Art’s Daniel S. Palmer
– Xenia Zed reflects on the life and work of American artist Nellie Mae Rowe
-Top 10 Creature Feature with Emily Llamazales, and more!

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The Sulfur Street Fair features local artist vendors, live painters, and live music – the perfect addition to our First Friday festivities. The Sulfur Street Fair is located at ARTS Southeast on 39th Street between Bull Street and Desoto Avenue. Visit our website for a list of vendors!

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“Tomorrow and Yesterday” brings together over 30 photographs from The Do Good Fund — a public photography archive based in Columbus, GA — featuring a broad cross-section of Southern image makers working from the post-WWII era to the present.

Featured artists: Carolyn Drake, William Ferris, Jill Frank, Lee Friedlander, Peyton Fulford, Andres Gonzalez, Emmet Gowin, Stacy Kranitz, Baldwin Lee, Gordon Parks, Sheila Pree Bright, Tamara Reynolds, Jeff Rich, RaMell Ross, Maude Schuyler Clay, Sage Sohier, Mike Smith, Mark Steinmetz, Susan Worsham, Brandon Thibodeaux

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Ainaz Alipour (b. 1989, Iran) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores the interplay between digital and tangible forms, emphasizing cultural representation in art and its potential to challenge power structures. Drawing from Iranian cultural imagery, she creates digital installations that integrate soft sculptures, utilizing local sewing crafts and embroidery from northern Khorasan. Alipour’s work focuses on the dynamics and politics of bodies, engaging viewers through virtual reality and video installations that encourage physical interaction and challenge colonial representations.

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We’ll celebrate the Closing Reception of “Begin Again” a Spring Group Exhibition of fresh work by our community of Artist Supporters. Through painting, drawing, collage, photography and more, “Begin Again” considers how artists confront change, continuity, impermanence, and perpetual becoming.

Featured Artists: Carmela Aliffi, Janet Bailey, Adrienne Berkland, Jackie Black, Tara Conway, Janet Csadenyi, Rosemary Dodson, Joy Dunigan, María Gárces, Sheryl St. Germain, Paul Goldman, Maggie Hayes, Lind Hollingsworth, Anna Keck, Jessica Loyd, Cindy Male, Releah Michelle, Michelle Miller, Melanie Mills, Michelle Perez, David Riley Peterson, Faran Riley Peterson, Julia Wynn Safer, Shelley Smith, Harriet Speer, Bede Van Dyke, Emma Varland, Eric David Wooddell, Joshua Yates, Teake Zuidema

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Thank you to our Lead Exhibition Sponsors: Bud Green & Lynn Weddle and our Reception Sponsors: Marilyn Brady & Dave Henry, and Joshua Yates

Our programming is made possible with support from The City of Savannah, Georgia Council for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Gulfstream Aerospace, Starlandia Supply, Green Truck Pub, Starland Yard, SCAD MOA, and Telfair Museums.