Film Screening of "A Taste of the Wild: The Legacy of Sandy West" and Panel Discussion

August 20, 6pm

Jepson Center

Free for members; $8 for nonmembers

Join us for a screening of Megan Mayhew Bergman’s short film “A Taste of the Wild: The Legacy of Sandy West” which tells the story of the conservation icon’s love affair with Ossabaw Island and her pioneering interdisciplinary vision for its conservation. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion between Mayhew Bergman and Beryl Gilothwest, grandson of Clifford and Eleanor “Sandy” West and co-curator of Off the Coast of Paradise: Artists and Ossabaw Island, 1961–Now, moderated by Erin Dunn, Telfair’s Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Megan Mayhew Bergman is an award-winning fiction writer, conservation journalist, filmmaker, and cultural critic. She serves as Director of Creative Writing at Middlebury College and Director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. She is the author of four books and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Harper’s Bazaar, and elsewhere

​Beryl Gilothwest is a curator, writer, and art historian based in New York. He is the Deputy Director of Research and Exhibitions at the Calder Foundation and has contributed to exhibition catalogues and publications, including Apartamento, The Brooklyn Rail, and Art in America. He is the co-editor and co-curator of Off the Coast of Paradise: Artists and Ossabaw Island, 1961–Now.