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SCAD PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT · SAVANNAH 2026
Graduation Showcase 2026
Graham Scott Studio · A celebration of your work
You made it. Now show your work. The SCAD Photography Department is proud to invite graduating photography majors and minors — Savannah and SCADnow students participating in-person at the 2026 commencement — to the Graduation Photography Showcase 2026: an exhibition dedicated entirely to you, and the work you’ve built during your time at SCAD. There is no jury. This show belongs to you. Refreshments, music, and celebration throughout the evening for a class that’s earned it.
OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, May 28, 2026 · 5–8 pm
Graham Scott Studio, SCAD Savannah
AT THE RECEPTION
Print swap
Bring a few small prints to swap with friends and classmates. The best tradition in photography — and there’s no better moment.
Grad portraits
We’re setting up a backdrop and camera with SCAD props. Bring your family and friends — don’t leave without a photo.
Swag giveaway
Stay for the giveaway. Drawing for free SCAD swag at 7:30 pm.
PRE-SHOWCASE EVENT
Before the showcase, get curatorial eyes on your work
Choosing what to put on a wall — and how — is its own skill. Lydia Caston is joining SCAD Photo Club students for an informal working session to help you select and consider how to present your work for the graduation showcase. A rare opportunity to think alongside someone who does this at the highest level.
Friday, May 15, 2026 · 12:00–1:30 pm · Graham Scott, Room 123 · SCAD Photo Club
Guest: Lydia Caston, Exhibition Project Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum
Caston is Exhibition Project Curator at the V&A and Assistant Curator of Tim Walker: Wonderful Things. She is one of the curators of Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection. Recent contributions include The V&A Book of Colour in Design (2020), Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945 (2022), George Hoyningen-Huene: Photography, Fashion, Film (2024), and Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography (2024).
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Framed / hangable work
Drop off at the Graham Scott checkout counter between Friday, May 22 – Tuesday, May 26 (end of day).
Bring 1–3 framed/hangable pieces. Every student who drops off work is guaranteed wall space — and if you submit more than one piece, we’ll hang as many as we can fit. No minimum or maximum size requirement. The department will hang received work and produce labels — you don’t need to submit digital files alongside your physical piece.
Tape the following to the back of each piece for your wall label:
• Your full name
• Title of the work
• Your major (and minor, if applicable)
Digital image installation
We’re also inviting each student to submit 3 digital images, which the department will print and bring together as a large-scale installation on the studio wall. Think of it as the class portrait — every student represented, the full range of your cohort’s work on display in one sweeping view.
Submit 3 image files via the Dropbox link below by end of day, Sunday, May 24. Files should be Adobe RGB 1998, 300 ppi, 10 inches on the long edge, saved as JPG.
File naming:
FirstName_LastName_1 / FirstName_LastName_2 / FirstName_LastName_3
Video projects + social content
We’re also collecting social media posts, reels, and content that captures your SCAD memories and experience. These will play on loop throughout the showcase. Share what this journey has looked and felt like through your lens.
Submit video projects via the same Dropbox link by end of day, Sunday, May 24 — we’d love to screen your work at the exhibition. File naming: FirstName_LastName_mp4
SUBMIT DIGITAL IMAGE FILES & VIDEO FILES — BY END OF DAY SUNDAY, MAY 24
Graduation Showcase 2026 · Dropbox ↗
Questions? Reach out to the Photography Department. Josh Jalbert, jjalbert@scad.edu / Jon Horey, jhorey@scad.edu / Jenny Hodges, jhodges@scad.edu
We can’t wait to see what you’ve made. Congratulations, graduates!
