Alum Erin Dunn Named Associate Curator at the Telfair Museums

Alumnus Erin Dunn has recently been named the Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Telfair Museums.  

Dunn has worked for Telfair since 2014, previously as the Richard Middleton Curatorial Fellow. The Telfair Museum, located in Savannah, Georgia, is the oldest public art museum in the South. The Telfair consist of three unique buildings showcasing three distinct collections that bridge three centuries of art and architecture.

Dunn has curated over 20 exhibitions including Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography (2016), which subsequently toured to the Vero Beach Museum of Art and the Westmont-Ridley Tree Museum of Art and received a publication grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. She has curated several exhibitions for the institution including Objectified, a selection of still lifes from the permanent collection as well as several artist-specific exhibitions ranging from the modernist painter James Brooks to the contemporary photographer Neal Slavin. Dunn has also played a vital role in Telfair’s #art912 initiative, which raises the visibility of artists living and working in Savannah through exhibition opportunities and public programs.  

Dunn’s main interests focus on the intersection of social and cultural issues addressed through the medium of photography. She has previously worked at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia and the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a BA in Art History from Emory University and her MA in Art History from the University of Georgia

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