Motivation Events

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Experience The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans, featuring the work of acclaimed American artist Minnie Evans. Members see it first and free! Discover this new exhibition before it opens to the public.

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

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.

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.

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

Join us for a conversation reflecting on the Day With(out) Art 2025: Meet Us Where We’re At… films and their connection to people’s lived experiences. In this discussion, speakers engaging with the art and ideas presented in the films—including themes of creative expression, harm reduction, substance use, HIV, and visual culture—will explore how art can help us understand experiences beyond our own.

The High Museum of Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2025 by presenting Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.