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SCAD Museum of Art presents
“Virginia Kiah from Art School to
Educator: 30 Years of Portraits”
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Keiffer, Michael, and Clarence Mitchell (My Nephews),
oil on canvas, by Virginia Kiah c. 1940s-50.
The SCAD Museum of
Art presents the exhibition
“Virginia Kiah from Art
School to Art Educator: 30
Years of Portraits,” July 27-
Aug. 30 at the SCAD
Museum of Art, 227 Martin
Luther King Jr. Blvd.,
Savannah, Ga.
The reception and exhibition
are free and open to the pub
lic.
Notable artist and for
mer Savannah College of Art
and Design Board of Trustees
member, Virginia Jackson
Kiah was bom June 3, 1911,
and discovered a
passion for art at a very early
age.
Growing up in Baltimore,
Md., she attended Frederick
Douglass High School. After
overcoming racial obstacles,
Kiah earned a B.A. from the
Philadelphia Museum School
of Art in 1931 and an M.A.
from Columbia University in
1950. She also studied at the
University of Pennsylvania
and the Art Students League
of New York where her
teachers included notable
portraitists Robert Brackman
and Vincent Drummond. In
1950, Kiah came to
Savannah with her husband,
Calvin Lycurgus Kiah, and
taught art at Beach High She
remained committed to civil
rights and showed remark
able leadership as the promo
tional and membership secre
tary of the Baltimore branch
of the NAACP during the
1930s, following the lead of
her mother Lillie Mae Carroll
Jackson, known as the
“mother of the Civil Rights
movement” and a former
president of the Baltimore
branch of the NAACP.
Her por
traits have been shown in the
U.S. House of
Representatives and hang in
several public and private
collections throughout the
country. In 1986, Kiah
received an honorary doctor
of humanities degree from
the Savannah College of Art
and Design. The following
year she joined the college’s
Board of Trustees.
In 1993, SCAD’s Kiah
Hall (formerly the “Gray
Building” headquarters of the
Central of Georgia Railroad
at 227 Martin Luther King Jr.
Blvd.) was named in her
honor. Today it houses the
SCAD Museum of Art.
The exhibition is co
sponsored by the Telfair
Friends of African American
Arts.
For more information
about the exhibition and to
arrange group tours, call
912.525.7191, or visit
www.scad.edu/ scadmuseum.
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Hungry Club Forum to Hear
Covenants on Our Rural Roots and
Claiming Democracy
On Saturday August 1,
2009, at 9:30 AM, The
Hungry Club Forum of
Savannah, Inc. (HCFS) will
hear the preliminary reports
of two more of the commu
nity-wide study groups
involved in an examination
of Tavis Smiley’s The
Covenant With Black
America. The presentations
will be the featured offering
of the HCFS’ monthly
breakfast Roundtable and
Open Forum, held in the
Multipurpose Annex of the
West Broad Street YMCA,
located a 1110 May Street,
near W. Gwinnett St.
Longtime ILA- Local
1414 member, Chester A.
Dunham, host of WSOK’ s
“The Dunham Report”, will
moderate the Covenant VII
Study Group’s preliminary
plan on “Strengthening Our
Rural Roots.” Other mem
bers of this study group
include Mike Jones, Davita
Capers-White, Warren
Hickman, Eva E.
Washington, Servant
Emmanuel Branch, Dave
Kelly, Min. Richard H. Law,
Hon. Rodney Kinlaw, Betty
Ellington, Attorney Bess
Walthour, Angelisa Savage-
Bryant, Pat Gunn, Sidney
Adkins and John K. Littles.
Entrepreneur and com
munity activist Gwen
Glover, HIE Project
Mananger, Chatham County
Chester Dunham
Gwen Glover
Health Department’s Health
Safety Net Planning
Council, chairs the study
group on “Claiming Our
Democracy.”
In 2003, the Chatham
County Safety Net Planning
Council (CCSNPC) was cre
ated to assist the Chatham
County Commissioners in
better meeting the health
care needs of the uninsured
and underinsured residents.
Under the organiza
tional leadership of the
Chatham County Health
Department, the group was
asked to gain a better under
standing of the health care
needs of low income unin
sured citizens in Chatham
County, explore existing
resources to meet their needs
and to find opportunities to
maximize the use of these
resources. This group will
outline a plan to enfranchise
a greater portion of our com
munity through advocacy
and citizenship and voter
education. Members of this
study group include Ann
Hartzell, Judith Sweezer, Dr.
Zaphon Wilson, Mariela
Orellana-Nemanic, Carl and
Alldrein Murray and Estelle
Mannion.
The Hungry Club Forum
of Savannah is a non-profit,
community-oriented forum,
open to the general public. It
is dedicated to providing
quality educational, commu
nity development and cultur
al enrichment programs, and
to bringing forth involve
ment and discussion of
issues facing the community.
For more information,
please call Julia Wright at
233-0855 or Diana Harvey
Johnson at 927-8425.
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