High Tea
December 3, 2023 | 2–3 p.m.
Location: High Museum of Art
Registration Required
Tickets include table service, food, tea, and access to the museum. Recommended for ages fourteen and up.
Tickets include table service, food, tea, and access to the museum. Recommended for ages fourteen and up.
Learn about Beatrix Potter and the tradition of Victorian tea while enjoying delicious gourmet sandwiches, freshly baked pastries, and a variety of teas by just add honey. Come dressed in your finest tea party attire for this family-friendly event and hear about Potter’s famous characters and fascinating life from Andrew Westover, Eleanor McDonald Storza Director of Education and curator of Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature.
Andrew Westover
Andrew Westover is the Eleanor McDonald Storza Director of Education at the High Museum of Art. An educator and ethicist, Westover helms the learning team at the High, which recently rearticulated its focus: connecting people with art and ideas to inspire better civic life. Westover’s previous positions include posts at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Phoenix Art Museum. Westover began their career as a classroom educator, and prior to museums, worked for schools, districts, and universities across the United States and abroad. Westover holds an MEd from Arizona State University, an MA in Religion from Claremont School of Theology, and an EdM and a PhD in education and ethics from Harvard University.
just add honey
just add honey is an Atlanta-based small business that offers blended loose-leaf teas for all to enjoy. Since 2006, they’ve combined single-origin loose-leaf teas from small-batch farms with local or organic ingredients to make refined flavors.
Mrs. Rabbit pouring out the tea for Peter Rabbit while her children look on
Beatrix Potter (British, 1866–1943), Mrs. Rabbit pouring out the tea for Peter Rabbit while her children look on, 1907, watercolor and pen and ink over pencil on paper, Victoria and Albert Museum, Linder Bequest BP.468. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, courtesy of Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.
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