Motivation Events

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.

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

Create your own narrative illustrations. Looking to paintings, pop culture, and tarot cards for inspiration, practice simplifying and exaggerating human anatomy to create unique character designs and captivating compositions.

Create your own narrative illustrations. Looking to paintings, pop culture, and tarot cards for inspiration, practice simplifying and exaggerating human anatomy to create unique character designs and captivating compositions.

Learn to capture character as you create portraits using a variety of media. Through guided lessons, develop your skills in facial anatomy, proportion, and expression while exploring pastel sticks, charcoal, gouache, and graphite.

Learn to capture character as you create portraits using a variety of media. Through guided lessons, develop your skills in facial anatomy, proportion, and expression while exploring pastel sticks, charcoal, gouache, and graphite.

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.

Discover the art of surface design. Define your artistic voice within richly layered textile works, and create an expressive mini quilt that tells personal or collective stories. 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.

Join us as we explore nearly two hundred works from Isamu Noguchi’s career.