Now-Aug. 8
“SCAD Painting: Expressions of Application” Exhibition
Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St., Savannah, Ga.

The SCAD exhibitions department presents “SCAD Painting: Expressions of Application,” a group exhibition uniting alumni and graduate students from the SCAD painting department. The inspiring works on display fuse painting, sculpture, collage and assemblage, demonstrating abstract, conceptual, landscape and representational works. This event is free and open to the public.

Now-Aug. 22
SCAD Summer Sales Exhibition: “Planet Home”
Gutstein Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St., Savannah, Ga.

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. Exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information, visit SCAD Exhibitions website.

Aug. 2-Sept. 24
Cindy Tower Exhibition: “Abandoned”
Alexander Hall Gallery, 668 Indian St., Savannah, Ga.

The SCAD exhibitions department presents “Abandoned,” a solo exhibition by Cindy Tower, Winter 2010 Distinguished Visiting Faculty in the SCAD painting department. Tower’s large-scale oil paintings depict dilapidated factories, weathered buildings and overgrown landscapes that engulf the viewers physical space. Created on-site, Tower’s thickly painted canvases describe an abundance of abandoned objects within these spaces perpetuating their sense of solitude and loneliness. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Aug. 11-Sept. 24
SCAD Exhibitions and Graduate Studies Departments Exhibition: “Encore Series”
Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St., Savannah, Ga.

The SCAD exhibitions and graduate studies departments present the fourth annual “Encore Series” exhibition honoring the two juried finalists from the top M.F.A. thesis exhibitions of the past year. This “Encore Series” installment showcases the exceptional work of Bai Yang Qiu of the metals and jewelry department in Savannah and Lucha Rodriguez of the printmaking department in Atlanta. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Aug. 27-Sept. 24
Group Exhibition: “Picturing the Beast”
Hall Street Gallery, 212 W. Hall St., Savannah, Ga.

The SCAD exhibitions department presents “Picturing the Beast,” a group exhibition of limited edition trade portfolio prints highlighting the uses of animal imagery in contemporary printmaking. The exhibition includes work by SCAD printmaking faculty, alumni, staff and collaborating printmakers who explore the capacity for animal imagery to serve as stand-ins for the human form and act as symbols of myth and memory. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Kiah Hall, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., is the home of the SCAD Museum of Art and its affiliated study centers, the Earle W. Newton Center for British and American Studies and the Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies. An extension behind the current building is underway that will house additional galleries, art storage, academic spaces, a lecture hall and the Evans Center.

With approximately 4,500 objects, the SCAD Museum of Art collections represent one of the strongest assemblages of art in the Southeast.

The museum is open to the public free of charge six days each week: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 1-5 p.m. The SCAD Museum of Art provides a continuing calendar of classes, events, exhibitions, curriculum support and academic resources for the university and regional communities. Please visit SCAD Museum of Art Web site.

Now-Sept. 30
Fashion in Focus: Photos and Evening Wear from the SCAD Museum of Art Collection
SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga.

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. The aesthetic ranges from the sumptuous splendor of an aubergine opera coat and the charm of an ice cream pink ball gown to the clean simple lines of a little black dress or the austere grace of silver and ivory evening dresses. 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. Visitors ca n gain an appreciation for the fine craftsmanship, fabrics and designs of the couture garments and for the individual perspectives and visions of top fashion photographers. Read the press release.

Now-Dec. 31
“Mapping the Past: Antique Cartography from the Newton Collection”
SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga.

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.

Now-Dec. 31
“The Master Eye: Photography from the Rhoades Collection”
SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga.

The photographs in this 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.

Now-Dec. 31
“150 Years of Architectural Elegance: The Central of Georgia Railroad’s 1856 Gray Building Headquarters”
SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga.

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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