100 Years of Art in Atlanta

Julia Forbes is the High Museum of Art’s Associate Director of Institutional Research. She is responsible for designing, implementing, and reporting on quantitative and qualitative research studies regarding the High’s impact. Prior to her current position, Forbes served for over eighteen years as the Shannon Landing Amos Head of Museum Interpretation and is a founding member of the Association for Art Museum Interpretation. She holds degrees in Art History and Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a master’s degree from the George Washington University in Art History/Museum Training.

Katherine “Katie” Jentleson, PhD, is Senior Curator of American Art and the Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum of Art. Since joining the High in 2015, she has curated ten exhibitions, including Patterns in Abstraction: Black Quilts from the High’s Collection, George Voronovsky: Memoryscapes (2023), and Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe, which has toured the country from 2021 through 2025. Her exhibitions and publications have been awarded major support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Art Bridges Foundation, the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. She has grown the High’s internationally renowned folk and self-taught art collection by more than six hundred objects, including major acquisitions of work by Voronovsky, Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, the Gee’s Bend quilters, and Henry Church. Jentleson holds a BA from Cornell University and a PhD in art history from Duke University.