TAG October Meeting

Erin Dunn, Associate Curator, will present a talk on Feels Like Freedom: Philip J Hampton, the first large-scale museum retrospective of African American artist Philip J Hampton (1922-2016)who for 17 years served as an influential visual arts professor and department head at Savannah State College, today know as Savannah State University. This exhibition, alongside a companion exhibition, The Early Years at Savannah State's Kennedy Fine Arts Gallery, will consider Hampton's impact alongside and as part of the broader context of African American artmaking in the mid 20th century.