Life-Long Learner

Every Tuesday

Conversation Pieces

Join professional museum educators each week in looking closely at artworks in the Museum’s collection: one work, thirty minutes, deep conversations and discoveries. All curious and eager learners are welcome!

VIDEO: Verocchio’s David Restored

Verrocchio's David at the High travels back in time to Renaissance Italy where Verrocchio created his bronze statue of David. After centuries of neglect, this masterpiece has been fully restored to its original glory. You'll find out how Atlanta became the first city in America to see this great work of art.

STEAM Programming at The High Fosters Inclusiveness

In 2017, the High Museum of Art launched a partnership with Tapestry Charter School to pilot a STEAM program aimed at students on the autism spectrum. The High’s STEAM program for students on the spectrum fosters inclusiveness for these children and promotes art appreciation and visual literacy.

VIDEO: Global Village Project Refugee Students at the High

Global Village Project is a special school designed to serve newcomer refugee girls who have missed years of formal schooling due to displacement as refugees. The High Museum is proud to partner with GVP to provide students with access to art.

VIDEO: Teen Team at the High

Watch this video featuring the High's Teen Team.

VIDEO: Installing Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #729 Irregular Color Bands”

Learn about the unique installation of Wall Drawing #729 Irregular Color Bands, an acrylic wall drawing by Sol LeWitt. This video aired on GPB on the occasion of the Woodruff Arts Center's 50th Anniversary in 2019.

VIDEO: Franklin Sirmans on “Untitled (Cadmium)” by Jean-Michael Basquiat

Franklin Sirmans, Director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami and the High Museum’s 2007 Driskell Prize winner, discusses Untitled (Cadmium) in this video.

VIDEO: “The Value of Pictures” by Jonathan Lasker

Learn about "The Value of Pictures," Jonathan Lasker's artwork that makes an ironic caricature of Abstract Expressionist paintings of the 1940s and 1950s.

VIDEO: “Somnyama Ngonyama” by Zanele Muholi

Muholi uses self-portraiture to address the politics of gender, race, sexuality, and ethnicity throughout the history of photography in the ongoing body of work Somnyama Ngonyama (which translates to “Hail, The Dark Lioness” from the artist’s mother tongue, Zulu).

Musing Together

Musing Together is a monthly tour program that serves groups of visitors in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, along with their care partners.