Motivation Events

Experiment, explore, and create at Teen Art Afternoon! Join the Teen Team for art making, tours, and more. Free for teens!

Explore the High as a family on this interactive, docent-led adventure through the galleries. Designed for members and their families, this tour will give you the chance to discover new works or find your favorite artist!

Engage the world through your camera! Looking to Blazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb for inspiration, we will discuss relationships between photography and narrative.

Learn principles of design while playing and experimenting with collage materials and techniques.

Join Alison Saar, the 2025 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize, and Anni Pullagura, PhD, the Margaret and Terry Stent Associate Curator of American Art, in conversation around Saar’s contributions to the field of African American art and her exploration into the histories of the African diaspora and its artistic traditions.

Over the last fifty years, photographer Mimi Plumb has expertly and poignantly captured the evolution of the Western US landscape and the lives of those within it. In her first solo museum exhibition, the High presents three of her major bodies of work, featuring more than one hundred photographs captured in and around San Francisco and across the American West.

Engage the world through your camera! Looking to Blazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb for inspiration, we will discuss relationships between photography and narrative.

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.

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.

Join fellow members on this exclusive thematic tour. Inspired by spring, take a deep dive into the High’s collection to discover our flourishing and bright imagery.

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

Celebrate Membership May and enjoy an evening at the High welcoming the opening of Amy Sherald: American Sublime. Featuring a broad range of paintings made from 2007 to 2024, the presentation will include many of Sherald’s most iconic works, along with rarely seen paintings spanning her career.