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Submitted by ARTS Southeast
April 18, 2025 – May 2 will mark the release of IMPACT Arts + Culture Magazine Vol. 4 No. 1, packed with an exciting roster of regional creatives including: Alan Rothschild, Founder of The Do Good Fund in Columbus, Ga. with an extended photo spread featuring Gordon Parks, Jill Frank, Lee Friedlander, Baldwin Lee, Sheila Pree Bright, Mark Steinmetz, Brandon Thibodeaux, and many more; award-winning writer, oral historian, and teaching artist Trelani Michelle in conversation with co-founders of the Savannah Photo Club; Noah Reyes’ interview with Amy Pleasant about her exhibitions across the South; Xenia Zed’s reflections on the life and work of American artist Nellie Mae Rowe; a Top 10 Creature Feature with Emily Llamazales, and more!
In The Ellis Gallery, we’ll host the Opening Reception for Tomorrow and Yesterday, Selections from The Do Good Fund, which brings together over 30 photographs from The Do Good Fund’s archive, a broad cross- section of celebrated Southern image makers working from the post-WWII era to the present. Our Supporter Gallery will feature the Closing Reception for Begin Again, a Spring Group Exhibition of fresh work by our community of Artist Supporters. In the ON::View Residency, we’ll host the finale for West-Virginia based Iranian artist Ainaz Alipour, whose digital installations and soft sculptures explore the interplay between digital and tangible forms, emphasizing cultural representation in art and its potential to challenge power structures.
Outside, on 39th Street between Bull Street and Desoto Avenue, we’ll host the Sulfur Street Fair, featuring local artists and vendors, live painting, DJ Miss Paradise, Pupuseria Jireh food truck and King of Pops!
Vendors include:
Maxx Feist Art, Weak Link, Dayglow Studios, Andrew Creswell Pottery, ZTT Comics, Pragfu Press, Savannah State Art Club, Vibez4Me, Tatiana Tatum Art, Ella Land, Maggie Hickey Art & Kya Arts, Rebel Rush Cosmetics Another Girlz Treasure, Unblushing Media, Georgia Coalition of the People’s Agenda Coastal Georgia Our programming is made possible with support from The City of Savannah, Georgia Council for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Gulfstream Aerospace, Starlandia Supply, Green Truck Pub, Starland Yard, SCAD MOA, Telfair Museums.
Special thanks to our Lead Exhibition Sponsors: Bud Green & Lynn Weddle and our May First Friday Sponsors: Marilyn Brady & Dave Henry, Joshua Yates, and Service Brewing
For more information please contact:
Samantha Mack | Program Assistant & Director of Public Relations | sam@artssoutheast.org