As I emphasized at the end of my City Talk column today, it’s remarkable that the SCAD-sponsored Savannah Film Festival has reached such a level of prestige and quality in just 15 years. But the festival could be better, and that’s what this post is about.
ELLE: Are you reminded of how lucky you are?
GS: It doesn’t remind me of how lucky I am, but how much I’ve worked for it.
We probably won’t know which student-made bumpers will be played before screenings at the upcoming Savannah Film Festival until a week from now, but lots of links have been crossing my desk(top).
So what will those 18-20 year olds do tonight? Who knows? They certainly won’t be in a safe place under the watchful eye of experienced servers who could lose their jobs if underage patrons were found drinking. But they might drive to other cities where they’re welcomed into such places — like Statesboro, Charleston, Athens, and so forth and so on.
“Men don’t commonly wear little black dresses, which is why Talley asked some of his favorite female designers — plus Marc Jacobs, himself known for slipping into a tiny black number — to help define this iconic piece of clothing in the exhibit’s accompanying catalog.”
I sure would have loved to have been a fly on the way as Andre Leon Talley and Maureen Dowd toured the exhibit “Little Black Dress” at the SCAD Museum of Art.
The 2012 Savannah Film Festival — sponsored by the Savannah College of Art and Design — will be held Oct. 27 – Nov. 3.
Re: Magazine, launched a few months ago by SCAD students, has just published its second issue. The magazine is heavy on fashion stories but also includes profiles, reviews, and all sorts of other pieces.
In the wake of some bad press for SCAD about the return on investment for graduates (tuition vs. future earnings), Fast Company has a fascinating interview with college co-found and president Paula Wallace.
Word-for-word productions of “Greenleaf” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge” continue through Sunday.
The New York Times has excellent coverage with some great graphics today detailing the student loan debt burden for private and public colleges across America. The average Armstrong graduate has $19,000 in debt; the average SCAD graduate $39,000.
Architect Magazine and the Congress for the New Urbanism with praise for the elegant and beautiful expansion of the Savannah College of Art & Design’s Museum of Art.
