Savannah State University students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited to Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center for Savannah State University Night, featuring a special tour, lecture and refreshments. The program will begin at 6 p.m. with a curator’s tour of the exhibition Feels Like Freedom: Phillip J. Hampton by Erin Dunn, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. This retrospective exhibition features more than sixty works in a variety of media by noted artist and educator Phillip J. Hampton. For 17 years, between 1952 and 1969, Hampton served as an influential visual arts professor and eventual department head at Savannah State, where he was instrumental in building and expanding the school’s arts program.
After the tour, participants may join the museum’s Friends of African American Arts member group for a short lecture by noted artist Jerome Meadows. Meadows will discuss his recent public art projects, including the Ed Johnson Memorial in Chattanooga (2021) and the recently unveiled sculpture project entitled “Of Communities and the Land and the Trees that Bear Witness to Them” for Savannah’s Enmarket Arena.
A reception will follow the program.
Program Agenda:
5:30 - 6 p.m. - SSU students and staff arrive at the Jepson Center
6 p.m. - Tour of Feels Like Freedom: Phillip J. Hampton
6:30 p.m. - Lecture by artist Jerome Meadows
7 p.m. - Reception
7:30 p.m. - Event ends
Transportation to and from the event will be provided. Pick-up locations include the Kennedy Fine Arts Center parking area at 5:15 p.m. or the Coastal Georgia Center parking area at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 12.
For more information, contact Nicholas Silberg, professor and chair of the Department of Fine Arts, Humanities and Wellness, by calling 912-358-3342 or by emailing silbergn@savannahstate.edu.