Savannah Wood

Savannah Wood is an artist with deep roots in Baltimore and Los Angeles. Wood works primarily in photography, text and installation to explore how spirituality, domesticity, and our relationships to place shape our identities. Her projects reconnect people with the everyday beauty of our world and the histories that lie hidden below the surface. 

As the Executive Director of Afro Charities, Wood is leading the charge to increase access to the 130+-year-old AFRO American Newspapers’ extensive archives. In this role, she has shepherded the organization through a period of historic growth, initiated new programming, and attracted support from national funders including the Mellon Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Ruth Foundation.

Wood is a graduate cum laude of the University of Southern California. She is a 2025 Johns Hopkins Tabb Center Public Humanities Fellow; a member of the 2023 class of The Leadership Baltimore; a 2022 Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Fellow; 2022 Creative Capital finalist; and a 2019 - 2021 Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Fellow. Like four generations of ancestors before her, she lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland, sharing and preserving Black stories.

Headshot by SHAN Wallace