Now on view at
@telfairmuseums through September 6, “Off the Coast of Paradise: Artists and Ossabaw Island, 1961–Now” is the first major exhibition to explore the profound impact of an undeveloped, 26,000-acre barrier island off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, on artists working in the United States. The exhibition focuses on the Ossabaw Island Project (OIP) and Genesis—a pair of revolutionary multidisciplinary residency programs that ran on the island from 1961–1982—and their legacies as an examination of creative experimentation at Ossabaw.
Taking its name from a poem written by celebrated poet and former Genesis member Henri Cole, ”Off the Coast of Paradise” features the work of internationally renowned artists, past and present, who have considered the island through myriad lenses in their work, including the historical, the environmental, the social, the cultural, and the personal. They include Harry Bertoia, Agnes Denes, Marcy Hermansader, Suzanne Jackson, Ellen Lanyon, Doris Lee, Sally Mann, Michael Mazur, Ross McElwee, Athena Tacha, Betty Tompkins, and Anne Truitt, among many others, as well as a major new commission by Allison Janae Hamilton.
”Off the Coast of Paradise” is organized by Telfair Museums and is curated by #TeigerFoundation grantees
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1, 3, 6, 8. ”Off the Coast of Paradise,” Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia, March 13 – September 6, 2026. Courtesy of Beryl Gilothwest. Photo: Beryl Gilothwest
2. “Tex” Schiwetz’s “Sharks,” ca.1958, in front of the Main House, Ossabaw Island, Georgia, ca.1962. Courtesy West Family. Photo: Clifford B. West
4-5. Genesis members on South End Beach, Ossabaw Island, Georgia, 1978. Courtesy Helen Hamada. Photo: Helen Hamada
7. Michael Mazur, “Palmetto,” 1975. Pastel on paper. Collection The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, gift of Jim Dine. Courtesy MOCA. © Estate of Michael Mazur / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Jeff McLane
![”Original Order Order Original: The Art and Archives of Bettina,” is an unfolding study of the artist’s work across photography, film, sculpture, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, textile, text, and commercial design, presented by @followriversinstitute with @ruthfoundationforthearts through April 03.Bettina Grossman (b. September 28,1927–d. November 4, 2021), was an American conceptual artist and autodidact working across genres of photography, film, sculpture, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, textile, text, and commercial design. After a devastating fire destroyed all the content of her Brooklyn studio, Bettina built her world anew. Relocating to the Chelsea Hotel in the early 1970s, the prolific artist would perpetually reinvent, rebuild, rethink, and ultimately establish an unprecedented and exponential body of work. The exhibition maps “[a] poem of perpetual renewal,” as described by artist Yto Barrada, who collaborated with the artist in her later years and subsequently became executor of the artist’s estate.“Original Order” is a concept in archival theory that records should be maintained in the order and arrangement invested by the collection’s creator. A core tenant of the archival principle, “respect des fonds,” it commits to the preservation of contextual knowledge and historical meaning.“Original Order Order Original: The Art and Archives of Bettina” is an experiment that sustains the tension at the heart of the archive—as a tool for both memorializing and making. It unfolds in the galleries of the Ruth Foundation, on the web at oooo.riversinstitute.org, and in the archives of the artist, and is stewarded by the artist Yto Barrada..“Original Order Order Original: The Art and Archives of Bettina,” Ruth Foundation for the Arts, Milwaukee (October 16, 2025–April 03, 2026). Courtesy Ruth Foundation for the Arts. Photo: Alex Marks](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6742491759453563357373_0_dbd1bde80276a2a6f38468399c74ca56.jpg?o=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&h=e74fa1bfc73d0c4962276d810721b5dc)
