Club Meeting: Victoria Society

Lunch will be assorted paninis, salad and cookie from Starland Cafe.  $15.00 in advance and $17.00 at the door.  Limited supply day of meeting.  Please reserve in advance.

Tania June Sammons will be talking about the Savannah Victorian Society, one of ten non-profit affiliate chapters of the Victorian Society in America, a national organization dedicated to the education and preservation of the arts, history, culture, and other related topics of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Savannah chapter presents 4-7 programs a year, and provides scholarships for advanced study at the Victorian Society’s annual summer school in Newport, Rhode Island.

Tania is the current president of the Savannah Victorian Society. She has nearly 30 years of experience as a writer, curator, public historian, and museum specialist. She has led and consulted with institutions in the development and implementation of many significant educational, artistic, and historical programming projects via exhibitions, books, lectures, and symposia. Tania began her career in museums at the University of Kentucky Art Museum as an undergraduate student, and continued her professional path in Savannah working at several Savannah museums, including 17 years at Telfair Museums, and four years at the Andrew Low House.