Historic District
Savannah's National Historic Landmark District is one of the largest and best-preserved historic districts in the United States, a 2.5-square-mile grid of 22 squares laid out by James Oglethorpe in 1733. The mural program here navigates a unique constraint: all outdoor art must pass through the Historic Savannah Foundation's review process. The result is a curated collection of work that responds seriously to the architectural context — pieces that work with the brick, the ironwork, and the squares rather than against them.
Featured Artists
All artists →Conor Harrington
"The 22 Squares" brings Harrington's 17th-century figuration to Savannah's Oglethorpe-era history — the colonial planners, the Yamacraw negotiators, the enslaved laborers who built the city — in a composition where period portraiture dissolves into the gold leaf and gestural abstraction that references both the historic district's formal grandeur and the violence beneath its civic beauty.
HUSH
"Savannah Grey" references the Savannah grey brick — the distinctive soft-fired local brick that gives the historic district its muted palette — in a piece where HUSH's geisha figure appears to be made of the same clay as the walls she inhabits, dissolving at the edges into the flat grey-rose tones of the historic facades on Broughton Street.
Gaia
"Savannah Squares" maps the ecological communities that have colonized Savannah's 22 squares since their founding — the live oaks, the azaleas, the resurrection ferns, the house sparrows and chimney swifts — in Gaia's natural history documentation style, rendering the squares as urban ecosystems whose biological inventory rivals their architectural significance.