Artist Talk Alexander Hall Gallery

 MFA Candidate Ethan Helow

Artist Talk, Tuesday, November 3, 2026 5-6pm 

Alexander Hall Gallery

 

 This is a reminder

that the deadline for

Short Term Summer Study

is 10/28.

 Looking to learn more about your camera gear?

Want to learn tips and tricks directly from camera equipment manufacturers? Join us for the Tools of the Trade Event on Friday, October 23! Meet vendors, check out the latest gear, and enter for a chance to win raffle prizes.

No sign-ups needed! Just stop by, explore the booths, and chat with any of the photo vendors attending!

When: Friday, October 23, from 10 AM to 1 PM

Where: Savannah Film Studios
Studio B, Building 4
2041 Louisville Road
Savannah, GA

Photo Club This Friday 11am-12pm

 Attend SCAD Photo Club Friday, Oct 9, 2026 11am-12pm

Alexander Hall Darkroom to make Photograms

Dear Objects, Call for Submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Submission Link

Dear Objects

Photographs, Objects, and the Stories We Carry

A collaboration between SCAD Photography and guest mentor Charlene Lam, Founder of The Grief Gallery® and Creator of Curating Grief®, with the support of the Feinglos Fund and nonprofit partner PAUSE.

About the exhibition

Dear Objects is an exhibition exploring memory, objects, storytelling, and loss through photography. A photograph, article of clothing, letter, family heirloom, souvenir, key, or everyday belonging can contain traces of a person, relationship, identity, place, or moment in time. Photography has long served as a means of documentation and preservation, but it can also be a way of honoring, interpreting, questioning, and reimagining what remains after loss.

Developed in partnership with The Grief Gallery® and Curating Grief®, this exhibition invites photographers to consider the role images can play in making visible experiences that are often difficult to describe.

Students are encouraged to interpret the theme broadly. Loss may include the death of a loved one, but it may also involve changes in identity, family, home, relationships, community, culture, environment, health, dreams, or belonging.

Selected student works will be exhibited alongside a curated installation of meaningful objects and stories from The Grief Gallery®, creating a dialogue between photographs and objects, memory and materiality, absence and presence.

What we're looking for

All photographic approaches are welcome, including documentary, fine art, conceptual, staged, experimental, archival, and narrative work.

Eligibility

This call is open to:

• Students currently enrolled in a photography course
• Photography minors
• Photography majors
• Graduate photography students
• Students from both the Savannah and SCADnow campuses

Submission Guidelines

• Submit 2-5 photographic works for jury review.
• Submit files at the highest available resolution.
• Selected works will be printed and installed by the Photography Department.
• There is no cost to participate, and all exhibition production, printing, and installation logistics will be coordinated by the department.
• Title each file with the intended artwork title.
• Include your First and Last Name, and SCAD student email, in the submission prompt.
• If submitting a multi-image work intended to be displayed as a single piece, arrange all images into a single layout and submit the work as one piece.
• Exhibition work is for display only and is not for sale.
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Submission Link

Submission Deadline: Friday, October 9, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. et

Exhibition dates: October 24-November 10, 2026

Location: Graham Scott Gallery, SCAD Savannah

Selection and notification

Work will be selected by Charlene Lam with SCAD Photography faculty and student organizers. Selected artists will be notified the week of Oct. 12.

Rights and permissions

You keep the copyright to your work. By submitting, you grant SCAD Photography, The Grief Gallery®, and project partners permission to exhibit selected work and to reproduce it in exhibition documentation and promotion, with credit. Any further use, such as a publication or future exhibition, will require your separate consent.

Questions

Contact photography department chair, Josh Jalbert, jjalbert@scad.edu

About The Grief Gallery and Curating Grief

The Grief Gallery® is a participatory arts project founded by grief coach, author, and curator Charlene Lam that explores grief through meaningful objects, stories, and shared witnessing. https://www.thegriefgallery.com/

Curating Grief® is Charlene’s creative, object-centered approach to engaging with loss through objects, stories, memory, interpretation, and intentional choice. Rather than treating grief as something to resolve, Curating Grief centers agency, meaning-making, and how we choose to carry our stories forward. https://curatinggrief.com/

Organized by SCAD Photography in collaboration with Charlene Lam, Founder of The Grief Gallery® and Creator of Curating Grief®, with support from the Feinglos Fund and nonprofit partner PAUSE.

 

First Friday Art Events

Savannah Center for Photography

Opening Reception 5-9pm, Oct 2, 2026

There are names for what binds us' by Mark Cáceres

 

Arts Southeast Street Fair 

39th between Bull St. and Desoto Ave. 5-9pm, Oct 2, 2026

Cleo Project Space 6-9pm, Oct 2, 2026 2424 Drayton Street

 

 

SCAD Photography at the Atlanta Art Fair — Friday, October 2

Free bus, ticket and guided tour. Spaces are limited - sign-up ends Wednesday, September 30. SIGN UP HERE: LINK

The Atlanta Art Fair brings together more than 80 galleries from across the U.S. and around the world, including Seoul, London, Johannesburg, Lagos and Barcelona. SCAD Photography has reserved a bus so you can go.

What you get

• A free ticket to the Atlanta Art Fair
• Round-trip bus from Savannah
• A guided tour of the fair with Victoria Gildersleeve of SCAD Art Sales, with a firsthand look at how the art market works and where emerging artists fit into it
• A pre-fair Zoom session with Victoria on Wednesday, September 30, at 7 p.m.

Why this matters for photographers

An art fair is where the business of art happens in real time. You'll see how galleries present and price photographic work, how dealers talk with collectors, and how artists build the relationships that lead to representation. Look for:

• Fay Gold Gallery. Represents the estates of Robert Mapplethorpe, Imogen Cunningham, and hosted exhibitions by Cindy Sherman and Helmut Newton.
• David Lusk Gallery. Its roster includes William Eggleston, William Christenberry and Walker Evans.
• Gallery MOMO. Its artists include photographer Ayana V Jackson, Roger Ballen, Andrew Tshabangu.
• Jackson Fine Art, one of the country's leading photography galleries, based in Atlanta
• Arnika Dawkins Gallery, an Atlanta gallery devoted to photography
• Atlanta Photography Group, the region's nonprofit photography organization
• SCAD Art Sales, which will have its own booth. You'll see how SCAD artists' work is presented to collectors.

You'll come back with a clearer sense of the art market, how artists connect with galleries and collectors, and the professional habits that sustain a creative career.

Prepare on Wednesday. Join Victoria Gildersleeve of SCAD Art Sales on Zoom session, Wednesday, September 30, at 7 p.m. Zoom link: https://scad.zoom.us/j/91487665660

Victoria will cover pricing artwork, talking with gallerists, navigating the art market, and turning what you see at the fair into steps for your own practice and career.

Friday, October 2 itinerary

• 8 a.m.: Bus departs Savannah (departs from Alexander Hall)
• 12 p.m.: Arrive in Atlanta
• 1 p.m.: Guided tour with Victoria Gildersleeve
• 6 p.m.: Bus departs Atlanta
• 10 p.m.: Arrive in Savannah

 Info session zoom link: 

https://scad.zoom.us/my/mobrienscad.edu

Mark Seliger Visting Artist NEXT WEEK

 Mark Seliger

Visiting Department Mentor, Mark Seliger will be giving a lecture

Date: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026

Time: 2:00 pm

Location: SCAD Savannah, River Event Space

 

Tom Hanks © Mark Seliger