PULSE Art + Technology Festival
January 11-15, Jepson Center
Start your 2017 with an exciting mix of art, science, technology, and fun as the PULSE Art + Technology Festival returns to the Jepson Center for its 11th year! One of Telfair’s signature programs, PULSE high­lights innovative, technology-based art in exciting exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and performances. Programs include lectures by PULSE artists, opportunities for local students to meet innovators and explore STEM connections, workshops and performances. Sponsored by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Hargray Communications. Media sponsor: Connect Savannah Daytime admission to PULSE is free and open to the public. All evening programs require a PULSE Pass. Reserve yours at telfair.org/PULSE.
 
Opening Night Lecture and Performances
6pm, January 11, Jepson Center
Lecture by artists Heather Dewey-Hagborg and David Bowen followed by Projection mapping perfor­mance “The Four Unicorns of the Apocalypse” by the Medeology Collective in the atrium at 7pm. A cash bar will be available. Museum members Free/ non-members $15 4 night Pulse Pass
 
PULSE Interactive Performances
6pm, January 12, Jepson Center
“Submerged,” a dance with interactive visuals choreographed by Britt Bacon. “How to Speak Dinosaur,” a performance and talk by Courtney D. Brown, will follow at 6.30pm. Museum members Free/ non-members $15 4 night Pulse Pass
 
The Odyssey Redux
6pm, January 13, Jepson Center
A Live Media Art Adaptation of Homer’s famous epic poem by Alessandro Imperato and David Spencer. Museum members Free/ non-members $15 4 night Pulse Pass
 
PULSE Free Family Day and Expo
1-4pm, January 14, Jepson Center
Celebrate STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) and family fun at the most popular event of the PULSE Art + Technology Festival! Explore demos of amazing technology, view works by local makers, play interactive games, and enjoy a new “Student Maker Zone” and expo in the atrium. At 2pm, guests can also experience a special matinee performance of The Odyssey Redux. Admission is free
 
Chiptune Night! Concert
7pm, January 14, Jepson Center
A game themed chiptune concert by Little Paw (Rochester-based artist Nick Maynard), who combines up-tempo Gameboy tracks, analog synths, and electric guitar to create high-energy in­strumental synthetic rock. Museum members Free/ non-members $15 4 night Pulse Pass
 
Big Screen Gaming!
2-4pm, January 15, Jepson Center
Enjoy casual, competitive gaming of recent indie videogames on the big screen. Admission is free
 
Nick Cave Opening Lecture and Reception
6-9pm, January 26, Jepson Center
Join Denise Markonish, curator at MASS MoCA, for a lecture on the art of Nick Cave. Markonish is curator of the exhibition Nick Cave: Until, the artist’s largest solo exhibition project to date. A noted and influential curator, Markonish has produced numerous other projects at MASS MoCA. She has taught at Williams College and the Rhode Island School of Design and is head of the advisory committee for the SETI Institute’s artist in residence program. Museum members Free/ non-members $10 register for tickets in advance at Telfair.org/nickcave
 
Nick Cave
January 27- April 23, Jepson Center
Nick Cave (American, b. 1959) is an internationally-renowned artist living and working in Chicago. The exhibition features a selection of soundsuits made in the past decade, as well as two tondos—large circular works evoking the night sky and the cosmos—and two recent videos docu­menting the soundsuits and their use in performance. This is the largest presentation of Cave’s work ever displayed in Georgia. Museum members Free/ non-members general admission
 
Free Family Day: Super Museum Sunday & Nick Cave
12-4pm, February 5, Jepson Center
Explore the joys of mixed media and nontraditional approaches to making fine art in this special Free Family Day event! Meet and discover local artists and art groups making and promoting contemporary art in an array of media, and take part in this exciting, blossoming scene by making some art of your own! Admission is free
 
Wundercamera Opening Lecture and Reception
6pm, February 16, Jepson Center
 Join London-based artist and curator Klaus Wehner for an illuminating discussion of Wundercamera: Savannah. Using mediums of photography and video, Wehner’s work has focused on museums for a number of years, exploring our dynamic relationships to art objects and the power of museums to inform our awareness and culture. Members free / non-members $5 telfair.org/wundercamera.
 
Wundercamera: Savannah
February 17- May 14, Jepson Center
Wundercamera: Savannah is a site-specific exhibition that brings together works by contemporary photographers exploring the world of museums. Exploring the often funny, strange, and intimate relationships between audiences and art, the works in Wundercamera: Savannah focus on different aspects of museum and gallery culture, all interpreted through the lenses of contemporary photographers. By presenting museum spaces as artistic subjects in their own right, Wundercamera: Savannah urges individuals to see these spaces with new eyes, morphing visitors into part of the art, and capturing that transformative moment when art and viewer intersect. Museum members Free/ non-members general admission
 
Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America Lecture by Judy Linn
6pm, February 28, Jepson Center
Telfair presents a lecture by renowned American photographer Judy Linn, best known for her collaborations with legendary musician and writer Patti Smith. Linn has produced an extensive body of work since graduating from the Pratt Institute in 1969, including solo shows at Feature Gallery, New York; The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; White Columns; and the Fotomuseum. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present at the Brooklyn Museum in 2009 and the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Museum members free / non-members $5. For tickets, register in advance at telfair.org/complex.

#art 912: Cameron Allen and Will Penny
March 3- July 16, Jepson Center
The Jepson Café will feature a unique collaboration between local artists Will Penny and Cameron Allen that investigates ideas of constructed and mediated reality. This installation is part of Telfair Museums’ #art912 initiative, a dedicated platform to raise the visibility and promote the vitality of artists from Savannah. Museum members Free/ non-members general admission
 
KCHUNG Radio: Residency
March 6- April 14, Jepson Center
KCHUNG Radio is taking over Telfair’s airwaves this spring! During this six week residency, KCHUNG will create event programming and temporary site-specific interventions throughout the museum, including collaborations with museum staff, volunteers, and the local community through workshops, symposia, and cooperative broadcasts. Programming includes "lunchtime discos" in the Jepson Center atrium, "whisper reports" live in the galleries, community programs, and a live broadcast station and mobile broadcast unit that will float outside the museum and around Savannah. So visit regularly, and stay tuned! Museum members Free/ non-members general admission
 
Neal Slavin: Groups in America
April 1- June 9, Jepson Center
Neal Slavin (American, b. 1941) is a celebrated photographer, well known for his keen portraits of various groups of people in the United States and abroad. This installation comes from a portfolio of 15 photographs from 1979; the portfolio is a significant gift to Telfair’s contemporary photography collec­tion and will be on view in its entirety for the first time. Museum members Free/ non-members general admission
 
Telfair Museums College Night
5-8pm, April 8, Jepson Center
College students are invited to discover unique offerings of Telfair Museums including special tours of the Nick Cave exhibition plus KCHUNG Radio's live event broadcast. Free admission with valid student ID.
 
The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Lecture by Celeste-Marie Bernier
6pm, April 11, Jepson Center
Celeste-Marie Bernier, is an internationally-noted scholar and author of the recent book Suffering and Sunset: World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin (University of Virginia Press). Ms. Bernier is Professor of African American Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK, and an Associate Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University. She is the author of numerous books including African American Visual Arts from Slavery to the Present (Edinburgh University Press: University of North Carolina Press), and she has lectured extensively at universities and venues internationally. Admission is free
 
Kahlil Gibran and the Feminine Divine
April 21- January 2, 2018, Jepson Center
Renowned for his literary masterpiece The Prophet (1923), Lebanese-American artist and writer Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) began experimenting with the visual arts at a young age. Telfair Museums proudly boasts the largest public collection of visual art by Kahlil Gibran in the United States, donated in 1950 by his lifelong supporter and mentor, Southern native Mary Haskell Minis. This exhibition concentrates on works that capture Gibran’s enduring belief in the oneness of all things, often character­ized in his paintings and drawings as the feminine divine. Museum members Free/ non-members general admission
 
Free Family Day: Wundercamera
1-4pm, April 22, Jepson Center
Come celebrate our museum by taking time to explore Telfair’s sites and the role the museum plays in our commu­nity, while also creating a mini museum of your own. Take lots of pictures, or strike a pose from one of our selected works and have your picture taken! Admission is free