Katherine Sandoz prep
Katherine Sandoz prep
savannah windows: BENJAMIN C. STANLEY statement
SCAD art preparator, Creative Coast Gallery co-director and every media artist Benjamin C. Stanley enjoys the sound of the buzz in the air that is Fashion’s Night Out Savannah. Stanley will feature Brian Jolly, manager of Half-Moon Outfitters, outdoorsman and mayor of Broughton Street for the Savannah Windows project. Not unlike the sound of his last name, “Brian is one of the nicest, most friendly you’ll ever meet and he shows a great deal of enthusiasm for our fine city.”
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.
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 and for this city electrify and delight.
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.
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: 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 close at hand.”
With trailblazing in mind, she states, “This is a great opportunity to work with talented local artists and, at the same time, allow the public to interact with art without the construct of a traditional gallery or museum.”
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 “balance” and understanding to the people of Savannah.”
Of the project itself Wandzel suggests, “Savannah needs more community supported programs to promote and expose the working artists in the city. This display supports this idea on a local and national level.”
detail of April Johnston portrait (in progress)
first drawing of #flanneryoconnor soon to be attending @FNOsav
