Ansley West Rivers and Erin Dunn Q & A

Join us for a conversation with exhibiting artist, Ansley West Rivers and curator and Margie. E. West Prize recipient, Erin Dunn. The two will discuss their work in creating Ansley West Rivers: Holding Time on display in the Margie E. West Galleries from September 14 – November 1. 

Ansley West Rivers (American, b. 1983) holds a BFA from the University of Georgia and an MFA from the California College of the Arts. She currently lives and works in Victor, Idaho. West Rivers’ work is featured in many public and private collections including Telfair Museums, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, LaGrange Art Museum, and The Mayo Collection, among others. Additionally, West Rivers’ work has been shown at EUQINOM Gallery (San Francisco, CA), the Illges Gallery at Columbus State University (Columbus, GA), Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center (Savannah, GA), Laney Contemporary (Savannah, GA), Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (San Francisco, CA), Sous Les Etoiles Gallery (New York, NY), Burrard Arts Foundation (Vancouver BC), The Brower Center (Berkley, CA), Kala Art Institute (Berkley, CA), Carmel Visual Arts (Carmel, CA), Hathaway Gallery (Atlanta, GA), United Photo Industries (DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY), The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA), and The Wiregrass Museum (Dothan, AL). 

Erin Dunn is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Telfair Museums in Savannah, GA where she has been a member of the curatorial team since 2014. She has curated several exhibitions including Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography, Bruce Davidson: Face to Face, Feels like Freedom: Phillip J. Hampton, Anything Goes: Contemporary Art and Materials, as well as solo presentations of work by artists including Sonya Clark and Noel W Anderson. Currently she is working on the first major museum exhibition of the photographer Frank Stewart co-organized with The Phillips Collection. In addition, Dunn has spearheaded projects for Telfair’s #art912 initiative, which raises the visibility and promotes the vitality of artists living and working in Savannah. Dunn holds a BA from Emory University and an MA from the University of Georgia.