Savannah's profile
Savannah Wood (b. 1988, Berkeley, CA) is an artist and cultural producer with deep roots in Baltimore and Los Angeles. Using photography, collage and sculpture, she uncovers obscured histories, taps into ancestral magic and disrupts linear readings of time. Recent group exhibitions include Tell Me a Story And I’ll Sing You a Song, curated by Bianca Moran at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles, and Our Deep Waters: A Collective Body, curated by Maria Maea at Residency art gallery in Inglewood.
As a cultural producer, Savannah has lived between Baltimore, Chicago and Los Angeles, working in nascent and world-renowned archives; facilitating the creation of large-scale public artworks; teaching kids how to sew; curating exhibitions; hosting a podcast; and communicating complex ideas to diverse audiences.
Savannah is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where she studied fine arts with minors in French and entrepreneurship. She is also an alumna of the Baltimore School for the Arts, where she studied theatre production. Wood is a 2019/2020 Robert W. Deutsch Foundation fellow, director of the Afro American Newspapers’ archives, executive director of Afro Charities, and a 2020 Sondheim Prize semifinalist.
As a cultural producer, Savannah has lived between Baltimore, Chicago and Los Angeles, working in nascent and world-renowned archives; facilitating the creation of large-scale public artworks; teaching kids how to sew; curating exhibitions; hosting a podcast; and communicating complex ideas to diverse audiences.
Savannah is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where she studied fine arts with minors in French and entrepreneurship. She is also an alumna of the Baltimore School for the Arts, where she studied theatre production. Wood is a 2019/2020 Robert W. Deutsch Foundation fellow, director of the Afro American Newspapers’ archives, executive director of Afro Charities, and a 2020 Sondheim Prize semifinalist.
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