For Adults Events

November 8, 2025 | 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Monthly Exhibition Tour: Viktor&Rolf. Fashion Statements

Join us as we explore more than one hundred of Viktor&Rolf’s most daring and avant-garde works, designed for the runway and beyond, that reflect the duo’s passions, obsessions, and singular vision.
Installation view, Viktor&Rolf. Fashion Statements, Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany, 2024, photographed by Michael Nauman, Tiefenpixel Photographics. Exhibition organized by the Kunsthalle München.

October 7 - November 11, 2025 | 6 - 8:30 p.m.

Painting as Process

Learn to paint from life while looking at the museum’s collection for inspiration. Participants with an intermediate-level skill set will develop their artistic styles as they explore a variety of painting techniques including underpainting, sgraffito, and glazing.
A person wearing a colorful shirt paints intently in a well lit room.

October 7 - November 11, 2025 | 1:30 - 4 p.m.

Painting as Process

Learn to paint from life while looking at the museum’s collection for inspiration. Participants with an intermediate-level skill set will develop their artistic styles as they explore a variety of painting techniques including underpainting, sgraffito, and glazing.
A person wearing a red apron and blue gloves is focused on painting on a canvas, using a detail brush in a well-lit room.

November 12, 2025 | 1:30 - 3 p.m.

November Musing Together

Musing Together is a monthly art conversation program designed for individuals with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia and their care partners. Each month, High Museum of Art staff facilitate lively conversations focusing on four to six artworks on view in the High’s collection or special exhibitions.
Three women sit indoors, attentively listening to something out of frame. One woman in front wears glasses and a floral top; the others behind her wear a striped dress and a denim jacket. The background is softly blurred.

November 13, 2025 | 6 - 8 p.m.

YP and The Lost World

Join us in celebrating the opening of The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans. See it first and free!
Evans 52.1997, 1/8s, Hmi's, Iso 200, Phase One Fx2; Photo: Jonathan Muzikar

October 9 - November 13, 2025 | 1:30 - 4 p.m.

Studio Class: Exploring Surface Design on Fabric

Draw inspiration from fiber artists in the museum’s collection while experimenting with vibrant techniques like direct painting with fabric paint and dye pastes, stamping, mark making, and stitching, both by hand and machine.
An older woman with long white hair and glasses smiles while engaging in a craft activity at a table, surrounded by colorful art supplies and other participants in a bright, communal space.

October 9 - November 13, 2025 | 1:30 - 4 p.m.

Intermediate Painting: Color Mixing and Texture

Learn new ways to create paintings while experimenting with color systems and texture. Work from observation, memory, and imagination as you begin mixing colors using warm and cool color palettes. Explore brushstrokes, mark making, and value, and study color hue and saturation using a primary color wheel. Create a painting by combining methods for color mixing, color application, and texture learned throughout the class.
A close-up of a hand holding a paintbrush, painting bright, colorful abstract patterns with green, pink, orange, and blue on a canvas. The artist’s hand is slightly blurred in the foreground.

November 15, 2025 | 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Oasis

Discover tranquility and connection at Oasis, a mindfulness-centered experience held on the third Saturday of each month.
High Museum, Oasis Event, 6.15.24.

November 19, 2025 | 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Access for All

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.
4 people looking at artwork in a museum.

November 19, 2025 | 6 - 9 p.m.

Sensory-Friendly Evening

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.
A person with glasses and a pink shirt stands smiling in an art gallery, holding a floral tote bag. Framed paintings line the wall, and two people in the background look at art and point.

November 20, 2025 | 7 - 8 p.m.

Art in Conversation: Shirin Neshat

Renowned artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat joins us for a compelling exploration of her career, creative vision, and the political and poetic power of her work.
An auditorium of people look toward a stage

November 21, 2025 | 6 - 10 p.m.

Friday Jazz

Don’t miss an evening of live jazz at the High every third Friday.

Joe Alterman Headshot