August 2011
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While “Fashion’s Night Out” on Sept. 8 is an international event involving dozens of cities from New York to Seoul, some Savannah artists are doing the best they can to put a local imprint on it… View Full Article
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savannah windows: KAY WOLFERSPERGER statement
Kay Wolfersperger’s big love for all things Savannah is apparent as she co-directs The Creative Coast Gallery , creates wonders at SCAD’s  Working Class Studio and, for the Savannah Windows, develops works based on Savannah fashion boy-wonder Kyle Millsap and Savannah enthusiast Barry Karlin.  ”Barry brings a unique perpspective to Savannah and deserves to be highlighted.”...
Aug 24th
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savannah windows: ALEX SOTO statement
Personal discovery and relationships guide the work of Alex Soto.  His careful exploration of what we “know” is re-ordered and re-discovered through his reflections on Savannah, its artists and for this project, the Pulitzer prize winning poet Conrad Aiken and SCAD’s president Paula Wallace.
Aug 24th
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savannah windows: KATHERINE SANDOZ statement
All the visionaries who live and work in our city enlighten, amuse, instruct and inspire. They do so in manner that lasts forever.   Katherine Sandoz studies in mixed media SCAD’s president Paula Wallace (with Alex Soto), couture designer April Johnston, writer Flannery O’Connor and author Adam Davies as their highly personal, definitively unique and enthusiastic vision for their work...
Aug 24th
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savannah windows: JOSE' RAY statement
Jose Ray soars under the radar to scope out and depict the quieter, lesser known cultural supporters and educators that inhabit our city;  SCAD’s fashion professor Anthony Scott Miller, Soap on a Rope’s Brady King, and Muse Arts Warehouse’s JinHi Soucy Rand.  Their kindness, down-to-earth dispositions and their “work about town” inspires Ray’s creative flight. ...
Aug 24th
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savannah windows: KELLIE WALKER statement
Kellie Walker depicts settlers of new and unexpected frontiers through her exploration of the individual and his or her accomplishments.  She finds the inventor-explorer in all of us, but for Savannah Windows project Juliet Gordon Lowe and Kevin McPhereson serve as her muses.   She remarks, “Both serve as role models, enrich locals and visitors,  and each reminds us that opportunity is...
Aug 23rd
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Aug 22nd
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savannah windows: TROY WANDZEL statement
Portrait painter and collaborative street artist, Troy Wandzel depicts Savannahian citizen advocate Tom Kohler and multi-media and 3D artist Mike Williams as his subjects for the upcoming Savannah Windows project.   Wandzel remarks of his election, “Both men represent the “true Savannah”.  They have experienced what Savannah was and is, and both constantly strive to bring a...
Aug 19th
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savannah windows: Dr. Z (James Zdaniewski)...
Entertained and instructed by the collaborative nature of the Savannah Windows project, Dr. Z reaches to Savannah’s far past and finds riches in Tomochichi.   Exiled from his own Creek people, Tomochichi settled in Savannah creating a new group, the Yamacraw, from members of both the Yamasee and the Creek.  He went on to moderate and facilitate relations among the English, Spanish and...
Aug 19th
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savannah windows: HEBERMEHL statement
Co-conspirator and curator of the Savannah Windows project, Matt Hebermehl has chosen Robyn Reeder and Vernon Chad Poole as subjects.   One a soldier and the other a champion of the arts, these warriors face their respective battles in a manner that inspires pride, affection, awe and respect.   Hebermehl honors their integrity and fortitude. Hebermehl has also selected DaVena Jordan and Bobby...
Aug 19th
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Aug 9th
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“The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. (and) I preach there...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“I love you, what star do you live on?”
– Conrad Aiken http://thinkexist.com/quotes/conrad_aiken/
Aug 4th
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Aug 3rd
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Aug 3rd
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“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody;...”
– Flannery O’Connor (Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose) http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3267475
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