Blazing Light: A Conversation with Photographer Mimi Plumb
March 19, 2026 | 7–8 p.m.
Location: High Museum of Art
Mimi Plumb (American, born 1953), Boys and Tires, Sears Point, 1976, pigmented inkjet print, Gift of Lucas Foglia, 2025.87. © Mimi Plumb.
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Photographer Mimi Plumb joins us to discuss Blazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb, her first solo museum exhibition. Plumb’s work expertly and poignantly captures the evolution of the Western US landscape and the lives of those within it. She will be in conversation with the exhibition’s curator, Gregory J. Harris.
About the Speakers
Mimi Plumb
Mimi Plumb is part of a long tradition of socially engaged photographers concerned with California and the West. In 2022 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in support of her project The Reservoir. Her photographs are in the collections of the High Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Collection Deutsche Börse in Germany, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pier 24, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, and Yale University Art Gallery.
Gregory J. Harris
Gregory J. Harris is the High Museum of Art’s Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography. He is a specialist in contemporary photography with a particular interest in documentary practice. Since joining the museum in 2016, Harris has curated over a dozen exhibitions that consider an array of topics including social justice, the intersections of photography and self-taught art, and the distinct history of photography in the South. Most recently he curated The Family Album of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, currently on view at the High.
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