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Toddler Thursdays,
Every ThursdayToddler Thursdays
Designed for children ages fifteen months through three years and their caregivers, Toddler Thursdays engage children’s creativity. Explore a new theme each month, with related artworks, art projects, and self-guided tours.
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Exploring Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High,
October 14–November 4, 2021Exploring Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High
This multiweek course, led by Katherine Jentleson, Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art, will explore the High’s Folk and Self-Taught Art collection as well as two major exhibitions, Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America and Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe.
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Smartphone Photography Class,
November 3–December 15, 2021Smartphone Photography Class
Offered in conjunction with Picturing the South: 25 Years, this online class will prompt participants to make their own distinctive smartphone photographs that speak to their personal engagement with the American South.
Current Exhibitions
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Permanent Collection Installation
Shaheen Collection of French Works,
Through November 30, 2030Permanent Collection Installation
Shaheen Collection of French WorksThe Doris and Shouky Shaheen Collection focuses on French art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Permanent Collection Installation
Pioneers, Influencers, and Rising Voices: Women in the Collection,
Through January 31, 2022Permanent Collection Installation
Pioneers, Influencers, and Rising Voices: Women in the CollectionIn observance of the 2020 centennial of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, this installation is drawn from the High Museum’s collection and features artworks made exclusively by women.
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Outside the Lines,
Through November 28, 2021Outside the Lines
This summer, the High will debut an immersive maze of accessible, sensory environments by award-winning design and research practice Bryony Roberts Studio on the Sifly Piazza.
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Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America,
Through December 11, 2021Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America
After World War I, artists without formal training began showing their work in major museums, “crashing the gates” of the elite art world. This exhibition will celebrate more than a dozen early twentieth-century painters who fundamentally reshaped who could be an artist in the United States and paved the way for later generations of self-taught artists.
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Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe,
Through January 9, 2022Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe
During the last fifteen years of her life, Nellie Mae Rowe welcomed visitors to her “Playhouse” in Vinings, Georgia, which she decorated with found-object installations, handmade dolls, chewing-gum sculptures, and hundreds of drawings. Based on the High’s leading collection of Rowe’s art, Really Free is the first major exhibition of her work in more than twenty years and the first to consider her practice as a radical act of self-expression and liberation in the post-civil rights-era South.