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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…
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…
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.” About Kyle she exclaims, ” His attire is always impeccable, eye-catching and artfully chosen. He is a clear-cut, stylish icon.”
Wolfersperger’s work which includes drawing, printmaking and fibers works can be characterized in the same fashion; impeccable, eye-catching, artful, unique and stylish.
As she toggles between disciplines, she enthuses about the Savannah Windows project, “The project strikes me as genuine and an example of ‘true’ art. I’m so appreciate of the local people that make our everyday notable.”
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.
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 and for this city electrify and delight.
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.
Ray offers this heartfelt sentiment, “It is people like these that make me want to live in Savannah and, in fact, to continue my work as a ‘Savannah Artist’.”
Savannah Windows is an ongoing project with the goal of integrating local art with local business. Our current project revolves around Vogue magazine's Fashion Night Out on September 8, 2011. Our hometown of Savannah, GA was selected as a host for this global event. With the help of the Creative Coast, Savannah Windows has partnered with businesses and residents along York street and Broughton street to create window installations celebrating the rich cast of characters from Savannah's past and present.