Art Galleries Schedule
Galleries are open Monday – Friday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Galleries will be closed from Sept. 4, Nov. 23-25, and Dec. 25-Jan. 1.
Fall 2023
August 14 – September 8
Biennial Faculty Exhibition
Reception: Friday, Sept. 7, 5-7 p.m.
University and Contemporary Galleries
This biennial exhibition features a wide range of work by our faculty, showcasing the diversity of approaches to studio art, graphic design, and more.
September 18 – October 13
VISITING ARTIST
Sabre Esler: Where Soul Meets Body
Contemporary Gallery
Artist Talk and Reception: Thursday, Oct. 12, 5-7 p.m.
Sabre Esler is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores how our emotions influence our thoughts and how our thoughts influence our emotions, and how the two in tandem influence our experience of reality. Working in materials ranging from paint and canvas to wire mesh and rows of LEDs, and manifest as either individual artworks or immersive installations that range from expressive to formalist, Esler’s work always emerges from a core experience of emotionally and thoughtfully engaged selfhood.
VISITING ARTIST
Clara Agüero Ortiz: For an Ecological Balance: Condors and Eagles
University Gallery
Artist Talk and Reception: Sept. 19, 5-7 p.m.
A dual citizen of Colombia and the United States, Clara Agüero Ortiz works in a variety of techniques to explore issues of royalty, nobility, family, and poetry. Often working with a vivid color palette influenced by her early exposure to the rich indigenous art of the Andes of Colombia, Ortiz focuses her areas of artistic interest on such topics as ecology and the environment, human rights, and the relations of people to each other and to their surroundings.
October 23-27
MFA THESIS EXHIBITION
Austin Buchanan: Expanses
Contemporary and University Galleries
Reception: Oct. 27, 5-7 p.m.
MFA candidate Austin Buchanan’s work investigates the idea of space. How the space created by an artwork acts within itself, with other pieces, and with its surroundings. Motivated by abstraction, exploration and attraction, working primarily in 2D traditional media his art asks the question; How can 2-Dimensional work truly exist in actual (physical) space. Yes it is an object in real time but how can that interact in a 3-Dimensional manner with the viewer, or with other surroundings? Can it activate, nullify, or create a new sense of spatial engagement once presented? The body of work created for this show was made from Jan. 2021 to Oct. 2023.
November 6 – December 1
VISITING ARTIST
Nancy Wellington Bookhart: The Lost Scrolls of Poverty: Stockpiles of the Poor
Artist Talk & Reception: Tuesday, Nov. 14, 5-7 p.m.
Contemporary Gallery
VISITING ARTIST
Capucine Gros: Lifelines
Artist Talk & Reception: Nov. 7, 5-7 p.m.
University Gallery
Spring 2024
January 8 – February 2
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Contemporary Gallery
Reception: Friday, January 19, 5-7 p.m.
This exhibition features the variety of media taught within the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, which includes drawing, painting, jewelry, multimedia, mixed media, photography, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics.
The exhibition will be juried by Savannah-based artist Will Penny. Penny received a diploma in Fine Art from Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, and a BFA and MFA in Painting from The Savannah College of Art and Design. Penny’s artworks dissolve traditional boundaries of art and design. His art explores tensions between the tangible space a painting inhabits, the impact of digital technology on fabricated forms, and illusionistic environments.
Form & Content
University Gallery
Reception: Friday, January 19, 5-7 p.m.
This exhibition features student work from Art Foundations classes that include Drawing I, Drawing II, 2D Art and Design Foundations, 3D Art and Design Foundations, and Digital Foundations. The exhibition will be juried by Savannah-based artist Will Penny. Penny received a diploma in Fine Art from Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, and a BFA and MFA in Painting from The Savannah College of Art and Design. Penny’s artworks dissolve traditional boundaries of art and design. His art explores tensions between the tangible space a painting inhabits, the impact of digital technology on fabricated forms, and illusionistic environments.
February 15 – March 8
VISITING ARTIST
Matthew Fields
Artist Talk & Reception: TBD
Contemporary Gallery
VISITING ARTIST
Crystal Ann Brown
Artist Talk & Reception: TBD
University Gallery
March 19-25
MFA THESIS EXHIBITION
Robert Miller
Contemporary Gallery
Reception: Friday, March 22, 5-7 p.m.
Sticker Show: See Me
University Gallery
Reception: Friday, March 22, 5-7 p.m.
March 28 – April 3
MFA THESIS EXHIBITIONS
Alicia Cully
Contemporary Gallery
Reception: Friday, March 29, 5-7 p.m.
Ashley Smith
University Gallery
Reception: Friday, March 29, 5-7 p.m.
April 11-17
BFA Graphic Design Exhibition
Contemporary & University Galleries
Reception: Friday, April 12, 5-7 p.m.
The Graphic Design program at the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art is comprised of a dynamic and multi-faceted curriculum that is led by their exceptional faculty. Every year, The Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art graduates, many gifted and diverse designers that successfully transition into various careers within the design profession.
April 26 – May 2
BFA Studio Exhibition
Contemporary & University Galleries
Reception: Friday, April 26, 5-7 p.m.
This senior exhibition will showcase the portfolios and capstone projects of Bachelor of Fine Arts graduating seniors in a variety of media including ceramics, digital and traditional painting, mixed media, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video.
May 13 – June 21
Summer Group Exhibition
Contemporary & University Galleries
Reception: TBD
Collections
The Betty Foy Sanders Georgia Artists Collection is a permanent exhibition of artwork curated by Betty Foy Sanders since 1968. Art displayed in the Georgia Artists Collection is either by Georgia artists, created with materials found in Georgia or themed around the state itself.
Donated to the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art in 2007 by Statesboro Historian, Smith Callaway Banks, his Southern Folk Art Collection brings a whole new world to campus with its unique and colorful pottery, paintings and artifacts.
Last updated: 1/10/2024