Create Events

Expand your art-making skills through guided, step-by-step instruction with expert teaching artists. Over multiple weeks, you will learn alongside other creative adults and delve deeply into the artistic process, explore new techniques, and build your practice.

Discover the simple joy of repair through hand sewing and creative mending.

Develop your painting skills by copying a work of art in the museum’s collection with acrylic paint. Analyze different works with the guidance of a professional teaching artist, and study techniques like underpainting, glazing, and impasto to strengthen your understanding of color, value, and expression. Hone your creative approach and gain confidence in your personal painting practice through the interpretation and recreation of a masterwork.

Explore collagraphs, monoprints, and relief prints in this introductory printmaking class. Learn safe cutting and carving techniques, and experiment with texture as you design stamps, create collage plates, and practice different inking methods to make individual impressions and editions. Dive into the processes of pattern design, hand printing, printing with an etching press, and inking plates with multiple colors, and develop your personal expression through line, texture, color, and composition.

Explore the seductive side of Valentine’s Day with a special evening at the High.

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.

Each session focuses on a different way of seeing and capturing the world around us while allowing participants to explore their own personal expression and develop their drawing skills.

Toddler Saturdays engage children’s creativity and explore monthly topics with related artwork, art-making activities, and self-guided tours.

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

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.

Learn to illustrate light, shadow, form, and space using layers of transparent color in this dynamic introduction to watercolor painting.

Learn to illustrate light, shadow, form, and space using layers of transparent color in this dynamic introduction to watercolor painting.