2025 Lawrence Lecture by Artist Nari Ward

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm UTC-04:00

Jepson Center | Savannah

Telfair Museums
Publisher/HostTelfair Museums
2025 Lawrence Lecture by Artist Nari Ward
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For the 19th year of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Lecture, Telfair presents a talk by internationally renowned, New York-based artist Nari Ward, who is represented by a work in the current exhibition In Reflection: Contemporary Art and Ourselves. Ward is noted for mixed media wall works and for his sculptural installations which re-contextualize cast off objects collected in Harlem where he lives. Ward reuses objects including baby strollers, television sets, liquor bottles, and other found items to create his thought-provoking work. Some of his works, including his Breathing Bars Diagonal Left from the Art Bridges collection, shown at Telfair, make use of an African symbol representing the cycle of life that the artist saw in Savannah’s First African Baptist Church. The Lawrence Lecture, founded at Telfair by Dr. Walter O. Evans, and presented by Telfair’s Friends of African American Arts, is free and open to the public thanks to funding provided by the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation. Additional funding thanks to investment provided by the City of Savannah.
Photo courtesy of the artist. Photo credit: Axel Dupeux
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