ArtZeum at the Jepson Center

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Come Explore the ArtZeum

The Jepson Center houses ArtZeum, an interactive children’s museum space. It’s designed with young people in mind, but it challenges young and old alike to rethink their ideas about art. The ArtZeum features 14 activities exploring some big ideas about art: What is it? Why do we make it? How do we look at art? How do we value it?

Normally we don’t recommend walking into the art, but the ArtZeum has two stations where you can do just that. Step into a reproduction of the artist Gari Melchers’ home inspired by his painting The Unpretentious Garden (the original is on view in the Telfair Academy rotunda). ArtZeum boasts reproductions of other artworks from the Telfair collection as well, and a wall where you can be the curator and choose which art to display.

Also inside the ArtZeum is a glass wall made just for expressing your creative side. Have an opinion? Tell us which work of art is a must-have if you are moving to the moon. Interested in 3D? Use our special magnetic tiles to transform 2D shapes to 3D forms. Learn about the art of architecture. Puzzle out the differences and similarities between the three landmark Telfair buildings. Try on a Capital Cap and think about what it would feel like to hold up a building. Create your own buildings with architectural blocks.

When you are ready for a break, you can relax with an art book in one of our big comfy chairs designed by Phillipe Starck, made just right for a snuggle and a read.

ArtZeum has been generously supported by Chatham County, Gulfstream Aerospace, and the Telfair Academy Guild.

TechSpace: Get Hands-on With Technology-based Art

Over the last decade, the Jepson Center has showcased some of the most innovative and unique new media artworks during the annual PULSE Festival. With TechSpace, Telfair Museums has created a long-term gallery for the exhibition of digital art.

Jepson Center’s TechSpace is an interactive and technology-based gallery for visitors of all ages. TechSpace provides a window into some of the 21st-Century techniques and technologies used by contemporary artists and examines how lines have blurred between visual art and computer science.

This year-round gallery features new media art from Telfair’s permanent collection, as well as long-term installations of interactive art from previous editions of Telfair’s PULSE festival.