Gardener Activation & Artist Lecture

In connection with the exhibition 'Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art, ' Telfair Museums invites audiences to participate in 'Gardener,' a work by artist Yashua Klos, whose art is also included in the exhibition. Presented previously at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, Gardener is an installation of 16 cardboard protest signs, each bearing a line from Ross Gay’s poem “A Small Needful Act” in memory of Eric Garner (1970–2014), whose death sparked national outrage. For this activation of Gardener in the Jepson Center atrium, Klos will conduct a collective reading of the signs with the audience.