Family Saturday
March 7, 2026 | 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Location: High Museum of Art
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Our lot fills up quickly on the weekends! Reserve a parking spot in advance.
Enjoy creative fun for all ages the first Saturday of every month!
Family Saturdays incorporate arts programming for everyone. Friends and families of any age can experiment, play, and make art in studio workshops and learn about art on view through gallery tours. Whether you’re joining Toddler Saturday, Drawing from Experience, or Teen Art Afternoon, there is something for everyone, every month, at the High.
Prepaid Parking
The Woodruff Arts Center gets busy on weekends. In order to guarantee a spot, we encourage our visitors to reserve parking in advance. Pre-paid parking is available for $25 when you put weekend tickets in your cart.
Film Screening—Minnie Evans: Draw or Die
A film by Linda Royal
12:30–1:30 and 3:30–4:30 p.m. | Hill Auditorium
Free with museum admission
Minnie Evans began drawing in 1935, compelled by dreams and later a voice that suggested she must “draw or die.” This one-hour documentary film, produced and directed by filmmaker Linda Royal, lifts the unique voice of self-taught artist Minnie Evans from conversations between Evans and photographer, Nina Howell Starr. Preserved in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art archives, their taped discussions from the ’60’s-70’s reveal a loving friendship and Minnie’s personal history. Grounded in the compositions and forms she produced, the film’s visuals employ her artwork through the decades, archival images, Nina Starr’s black and white photography along with the gardens and coastal landscapes that inspired Minnie’s work. During her lifetime, Minnie Evans drew an estimated 3,000 pictures using crayons and other media, yet she had no formal training, and every one of her works of art is unique. Evans’s paintings and drawings are in the permanent collections of prominent art museums across the USA, including the High Museum of Art.
Walk-Up
In Conversation: The Lost World with Wayne Evans and Katherine Jentleson
2:00 p.m. | Hill Auditorium
Free with museum admission
Join Wayne Evans, great grandson of artist Minnie Evans, and Dr. Katherine Jentleson, Senior Curator of American Art and the Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art, for an intimate conversation about Minnie Evans’ life and work.
Catalogues of the exhibition signed by Wayne Evans will be available in the High Museum shop following the conversation.
Walk-Up
Family Saturday Family Tour
11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Meet in the Taylor Lobby, Wieland Pavilion
Join a High Museum docent for a family-friendly tour of the galleries.
Drop-In
Toddler Saturday
10 a.m.–12 noon
Robinson Atrium
Designed for children ages fifteen months through three years and their caregivers, Toddler Saturday engages children’s creativity and explores monthly topics with related artwork, art-making activities, and self-guided tours.
Drop-In
Art-Making
1–3 p.m.
Robinson Atrium
Each month we highlight a different artwork in the High’s collection. Drop in to play and experiment with materials and collaborate to create an original work of art. Then explore the galleries to find other artwork related to the month’s theme!
Drop-In
Teen Art Afternoon
2–4 p.m.
Stent Lower Level
Experiment, explore, and create at Teen Art Afternoon! Join the Teen Team for art making, tours, and more. Free for teens!
Registration Required
Drawing from Experience
1–3 p.m.
Drawing from Experience is an ongoing series of drawing sessions that take inspiration from the High’s campus and collection. 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.
Related
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 a dozen exhibitions, including The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans, which opened in Atlanta in November 2025 and travels to the Whitney Museum of American Art in June 2026. 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, and 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 Minnie Evans, Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, the Gee’s Bend quilters, and Henry Church. Between 2022 and 2025, she served a three-year term as the Co-Executive Editor of Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. Jentleson holds a B.A. from Cornell University and a PhD in art history from Duke University.
Wayne Evans is a Foster Care Administrative Coordinator based in Raleigh, North Carolina. For more than 20 years, he has worked with ACI-Dungarvin, supporting foster care programs through administrative coordination and compliance. Prior to this role, he worked in the New Hanover County School System, supporting the special needs population and serving as a technology facilitator.
He is the great-grandson of Minnie Evans, the renowned self-taught African American artist whose visionary work remains an important part of the American art canon. Raised in her home, Wayne, along with many of his family members, witnessed her creative process firsthand during his formative years and up until her death in December 1987. Affectionately known within the family as “Mama” or “Mama Minnie,” she was not only a pioneering artist but a loving great-grandmother whose creativity, discipline, and faith have shaped his life and continue to influence him today. Through museum programs, media engagement, and public dialogue, Wayne shares personal insight that deepens public understanding of Minnie Evans and how her legacy continues to shape both his life and the lives of generations within his family.