Starland District
The Starland District — named for the Starland Dairy that anchored the neighborhood from the 1920s to the 1990s — is Savannah's creative hub, a grid of adaptive reuse buildings south of Forsyth Park where SCAD's graduate programs, independent studios, and design-focused businesses have concentrated. The mural program here has the highest artistic ambition in Savannah, drawing visiting muralists who respond to the neighborhood's deep shade, its Spanish moss, and the weight of the city's architectural history visible in every direction.
Featured Artists
All artists →Gaia
"Forsyth Moss" documents the Spanish moss and live oak ecosystem of Forsyth Park and the streets surrounding the Starland District — the specific ecology of Savannah's famous squares — mapping the air plants, resurrection ferns, and longleaf pine seedlings that coexist with the city's historic brick in Gaia's natural history documentation style.
HUSH
"SCAD Savannah" places HUSH's geisha figure in dialogue with Savannah's architectural ornament — the ironwork balconies, the tabby concrete foundations, the carved keystones of the Italianate commercial blocks — in a composition where the figure's woodblock-style rendering echoes the flat planes of the building surfaces she inhabits.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
"Starland Portrait" documents the Black residents of the Starland District who predate SCAD's arrival and whose presence has shaped the neighborhood's character alongside — and in tension with — the design school's transformation of the surrounding real estate, rendered in Fazlalizadeh's monochrome style with each subject's words about home and belonging.