Oh Savannah, How Pretty You Are

Savannah, as we had heard, is pretty gorgeous. Throughout the city, there are oaks dripping with Spanish Moss in squares and larger parks, surrounded by beautiful, historic buildings.

Outside of downtown by just 17 minutes is this magical place to eat by the water called The Wyld.

There are accessible and impressive natural waterways–the historic river waterfront with its bustling shops, restaurants, and boat traffic, but also a bit out of the city, a stunning marshy coastline. Here, on a very windy early evening, we found the delightful and delicious restaurant, The Wyld, amongst many, many impossibly long wooden docks.

SCAD Museum of Art, Eva Jospin’s ‘Into the Woods’.

Additionally, there is a wonderfully curated presence of the arts throughout the city, in large part due to the presence of the Savannah College of Arts and Design (SCAD), established in 1978 to create a specialized professional art college in this area. It has now grown to more than 17,000 students across the world. But within Savannah, SCAD buses and buildings are everywhere, a SCAD shop is filled with colorful, creative, and predominantly student-designed and created goods, and there is an impressive large-scale SCAD museum. Here, they exhibit student and alumni work, but also acclaimed artists. We were lucky to see the debut U.S. museum exhibition of the French artist, Eva Jospin, who meticulously creates scenes out of carved perforated cardboard and stitched silk tapestries that (in our opinion, successfully) attempt to capture the mysteries of nature and ruins.