Off the Coast of Paradise: Artists and Ossabaw Island, 1961–Now

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—revolutionary multidisciplinary residency programs that ran on the island from 1961–1982—and their legacies. Spanning painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, film, and textiles, the works trace how a diverse range of American artists have grappled with nature, identity, environmentalism, spirituality, and race in the context of Ossabaw's unique natural and cultural histories.