Celebrate 100 Years of Art at the High Museum
The High Museum of Art turns 100 this year, and Atlanta – we have to celebrate!
Join us for a Centennial year filled with special exhibitions, collection favorites returning to the galleries, free community celebrations, music, family programs, interactive moments across the city and one-of-a-kind events that honor the past and look toward the next 100 years.
Upcoming Events
We’re planning a full year of different ways to gather at the High, including fan-favorites you’ve attended and loved throughout the years: free admission days, family programs, Friday Jazz, High Frequency Friday, Access for All, UPS Second Sunday, art making classes, conversations with artists and tastemakers, performances, and more.
Featured Centennial Events
Join us for a special evening exploring The Recipe Collection, a cookbook published by The Member’s Guild of the High in 1981.
This Second Sunday, we’re celebrating our 100th birthday with a few extra surprises: an I SPY–inspired chalk art activation, a hunt for a hidden UPS truck, and music on the Piazza.
The High is taking over Peachtree Street to throw a 100th birthday bash you won’t forget. Join us for a free Block Party featuring live music, DJs, art-making, food vendors and special surprises.
Curious about the High’s history? Celebrate 100 years with us by taking a look back at the institution’s evolution, while also looking forward at the next 100 years.
Join us for a day of free admission and drop-in programming for adults of all ages! Whether you like to explore on your own, join a conversation, or create art, there is something for you. Come as you are and stay as long as you like.
The High Museum of Art’s Teen Leadership Council presents Teen Highlight: Centennial Halloween, celebrating the museum’s centennial in a spooky night with activities for teens, by teens. Join us for art-making activities, music and performances, and more!
In commemoration of the museum’s 100th anniversary, this walking tour will introduce you to the architects who designed the buildings that have housed the High throughout its history.
The High turns 100 this year, and we’re marking it with a party worthy of a century of secrets. Join us Friday, October 30 for A Haunting at 100, a Halloween night unlike anything else the museum has hosted.
After Hours
Don’t miss an evening of live jazz at the High every third Friday.
Set out on a musical journey with the city’s most popular DJs. Explore the museum’s special exhibitions and collections.
Don’t miss an evening of live jazz at the High every third Friday.
Set out on a musical journey with the city’s most popular DJs. Explore the museum’s special exhibitions and collections.
Don’t miss an evening of live jazz at the High every third Friday.
Art Classes
Explore collagraphs, monoprints, and relief prints in this introductory printmaking class.
Learn to capture the dynamic energy of the human figure in charcoal, graphite, and white chalk on toned paper.
Learn principles of design while playing and experimenting with collage materials and techniques. Make collages with torn and cut shapes from paper, fabric, and discarded printed materials, and create collage materials using ink, paint, and texture rubbings.
Make books by hand: discover creative structures and binding techniques for creating your own books.
Slow down and discover the power of painting in the moment. Working primarily from observation, learn to paint wet-into-wet (alla prima), developing paintings in a single session and strengthening your ability to see color, value, edges, and form.
For Families
Designed for children ages fifteen months through three years and their caregivers, Toddler Thursdays engage children’s creativity and explore monthly topics with related artwork and self-guided tours, as well as new art-making activities to drop in for each week.
This Second Sunday, we’re celebrating our 100th birthday with a few extra surprises: an I SPY–inspired chalk art activation, a hunt for a hidden UPS truck, and music on the Piazza.
Sensory-Friendly Morning is a free, sensory-modified program for visitors of all ages who have sensory sensitivities and/or are neurodivergent and their families. The event takes place prior to regular museum hours. Visitors can participate in activities and special performances or explore the museum at their own pace.
Family Saturdays incorporate arts programming for everyone. Friends and families of any age can experiment, play, and make art in studio workshops and learn about art on view through gallery tours.
Designed for children ages fifteen months through three years and their caregivers, Toddler Saturdays engage children’s creativity and explore monthly topics with related artwork, art-making activities, and self-guided tours.
On the second Sunday of each month, we offer free admission for all visitors and special family-friendly programming! Enjoy art-making activities, performances, and the High’s collection and special exhibitions.
Family Saturdays incorporate arts programming for everyone. Friends and families of any age can experiment, play, and make art in studio workshops and learn about art on view through gallery tours.
Designed for children ages fifteen months through three years and their caregivers, Toddler Saturdays engage children’s creativity and explore monthly topics with related artwork, art-making activities, and self-guided tours.
On the second Sunday of each month, we offer free admission for all visitors and special family-friendly programming! Enjoy art-making activities, performances, and the High’s collection and special exhibitions.
Join us for a day of free admission and drop-in programming for adults of all ages! Whether you like to explore on your own, join a conversation, or create art, there is something for you. Come as you are and stay as long as you like.
Free Days
This Second Sunday, we’re celebrating our 100th birthday with a few extra surprises: an I SPY–inspired chalk art activation, a hunt for a hidden UPS truck, and music on the Piazza.
The High is taking over Peachtree Street to throw a 100th birthday bash you won’t forget. Join us for a free Block Party featuring live music, DJs, art-making, food vendors and special surprises.
Join us for a day of free admission and drop-in programming for adults of all ages! Whether you like to explore on your own, join a conversation, or create art, there is something for you. Come as you are and stay as long as you like.
On the second Sunday of each month, we offer free admission for all visitors and special family-friendly programming! Enjoy art-making activities, performances, and the High’s collection and special exhibitions.
Join us for a day of free admission and drop-in programming for adults of all ages! Whether you like to explore on your own, join a conversation, or create art, there is something for you. Come as you are and stay as long as you like.
We invite adults of all ages who identify as disabled or neurodivergent to join us along with their friends and family for a Sensory-Friendly Evening. This after-hours program includes drop-in art-making workshops, wellness programs, and guides for exploring art and ideas in the galleries.
On the second Sunday of each month, we offer free admission for all visitors and special family-friendly programming! Enjoy art-making activities, performances, and the High’s collection and special exhibitions.
Join us for a day of free admission and drop-in programming for adults of all ages! Whether you like to explore on your own, join a conversation, or create art, there is something for you. Come as you are and stay as long as you like.
Centennial Exhibitions
The Centennial year brings together exhibitions across photography, sculpture, design, family favorites, works on paper, and more.
Step into the visual worlds of Walter Wick, the artist behind the beloved I SPY! and Can You See What I See? books. This exhibition is made for close looking, discovery, and visitors of all ages.
See a major exhibition of work by Martin Puryear, one of the most important American sculptors of our time. The exhibition brings together sculpture, drawings, prints, and decades of work shaped by form, material, craft, and history.
Explore the role of trees and landscape in American art through prints, drawings, and sculptures from the High’s collection.
Explore the work of three major photographers who helped shape the way photography is seen, taught, and understood as an art form.
With more than fifty works, this exhibition brings to light his rarely studied engagement with printmaking as both central to his practice and a site of innovation and collaboration.
Collection Favorites and New Stories
Our 100th birthday is a great to rediscover the permanent collection! You will see collection favorites return to view, refreshed galleries, new acquisitions, and new stories from across the museum’s collecting areas, including African Art, American Art, Decorative Arts and Design, European Art, Folk and Self-Taught Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, and Photography.
Whether you are coming back to see a work you love or visiting the High for the first time, this is a year to look again.
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The High is located in Midtown Atlanta, across the street from MARTA’s Arts Center Station.
Come for a special exhibition, stay for the collection, meet friends for music, bring the family for a free day, or make the museum part of a full day in Midtown. However you visit, the Centennial is the perfect time to experience the High.
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