Tania June Sammons

Tania June Sammons is a museum curator and writer who currently serves as the exhibition curator for the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum in Savannah, Georgia, and writes the newsletter Tania Talks Museums. She’s curated over two dozen exhibitions on topics such as furniture, silver, glass, African American history, women artists and patrons, the Georgia coast, maritime tattoos, and the artist and writer Kahlil Gibran and his friend and supporter Mary Haskell Minis. Her publications include books about two Savannah historic houses, silver, Kahlil Gibran’s art, and the history of an advocacy program for people with disabilities in Savannah.

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Sammons received a MA in American history from Armstrong State University (now Georgia Southern) and a BA in art history from the University of Kentucky with a minor in studio art. She also studied American decorative arts at Winterthur Institute, and historic houses and their collections with Attingham Trust in England, and the Victorian Society in America.