High Museum of Art

Applications are open for the Early College Program in Art History and Curatorial Studies through April 1! This co-educational program at Spelman College is designed to encourage rising junior and senior high school students to pursue undergraduate studies in art history and curatorial studies. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ds74ptXG

“We must not forget the splendid leaders — mostly noble women of Atlanta — who faithfully carried on the work of encouraging true art appreciation in Atlanta in the early days.” — Robert L. Foreman, treasurer of the Atlanta Art Association, May 9, 1926 In honor of National #WomensHistoryMonth, meet three key women whose passion and hard work made the High Museum of Art in 1926 a reality: Nannie “Lally” Boyd (née Seawell), Mildred McPheeters Inman (née Murphy), and Harriet “Hattie” Harwell High (née Wilson). Each of these women used their time, money, and influence to build a better Atlanta, including its first art museum after a more than twenty-year effort. Click the link below to learn more about these incredible women who's perseverance and vision helped the High become what it is today. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3R8GL7l _____________ Sidney Edward Dickinson (American, 1890–1980), Portrait of Harriet “Hattie” Harwell Wilson High (Mrs. Joseph Madison High), 1926, oil on canvas, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, gift of J. J. Goodrum and others, 26.9. Currently on view near the Greene Family Learning Gallery in the Stent Family Wing.

Need a seat? ?? These stools are available throughout the museum! Now you can take a seat, relax, and fully immerse yourself in the art! Learn more about accessibility at the High: https://bit.ly/4kubLMq

To kick off #WomensHistoryMonth, we are highlighting Ebony G. Patterson’s work. Patterson, winner of the 2023 David C. Driskell Prize Award, addresses postcolonial society shaped by economic globalization where groups of people are rendered invisible through race-based class and social divisions. Her tapestry features a garden setting in which a group of figures crowds around a partially concealed body. While some figures are visible, others are presented as silhouettes, suggesting spirits bearing witness to the discovery. Patterson’s work commemorates the lives of the invisible in society, including those who have fallen victim to political violence and hate crimes. She bestows dignity upon the dead and honors their lives through a visual lavishing of color, texture, and materials. ??See this stunning work on view at the High on the Wieland Pavilion Skyway Level!

? The countdown for “Ryoji Ikeda: data-verse” begins now! Immerse yourself in this exhibition starting Friday, March 7. https://bit.ly/4grVrsr

It’s almost Wine Auction time! ?? Join us under the Tents at Atlantic Station on March 21-22 for the city’s largest fundraising event for the High Museum of Art! For over thirty years, the High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction has brought the best wineries to Atlanta to share their wonderful wines! Since 1993, our generous Benefactors and long-time vintner friends have helped the Wine Auction raise $37 million to support the High Museum of Art and we are counting on our community to pull together once more to continue our time-honored tradition. Mark your calendars for all of this year’s Wine Auction festivities! ?? March 21: Friday Uncorked! ?? March 22: Vintner’s Reception and Live Auction Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e_UVrsVg

#HIRING: Gain experience in a leading art museum featuring a significant collection and world-class exhibitions through our Summer Internship Program. Open Positions: ?? Folk and Self Taught Art Intern (Curatorial) ?? Photography Intern (Communications) ?? Development Intern (Development) Apply now through March 21, 2025: https://lnkd.in/eHNandBs

We are excited to announce that Angelica Arbelaez will join the High Museum of Art as the Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. In this role, Arbelaez will work to develop the modern and contemporary art department while helping to build the High’s collection through targeted acquisitions, grow its exhibition program and collaborate with colleagues on new scholarship and public programs. She will also contribute to building upon relationships with patrons and community stakeholders. Most recently, Arbelaez served as the Rubio Butterfield Family fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In her fellowship at the Whitney Museum, Arbelaez co-curated the solo exhibition “Ilana Savdie: Radical Contradictions” (July 14-Nov. 5, 2023) and assisted with planning and research for the group exhibition “no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria” (Nov. 23, 2022-April 23, 2023). She contributed to the museum’s collection strategic plan by identifying acquisition priorities and conducting provenance research, and she was also a founding member of the Whitney’s Latinx Art, Artists, and Audiences Working Group, which strives to create inclusive museum experiences for Spanish-speaking audiences. Prior to starting her fellowship in 2021, she worked with Whitney curator Marcela Guerrero as part of a graduate mentorship.

?? Thinking Eye, Seeing Mind: The Medford and Loraine Johnston Collection is now open at the High Museum of Art! In the mid-1970s, artist and Georgia State University professor Medford Johnston and his wife and collaborator Loraine began collecting works by artists who were in the vanguard of contemporary art in the late 1960s and 1970s. Although they acquired a range of paintings and objects when they first began collecting, they quickly narrowed their focus to drawings, primarily by artists working on the frontlines of abstraction in the mid-1960s during a time of great innovation and experimentation. Today, they hold one of the finest collections of postwar American drawings and related objects of its kind, now numbering more than eighty-five works, bequeathed to the High. https://bit.ly/4gU2SKg

In 1931, Georgia O’Keeffe declared in the New York Herald Tribune, “Bones and flowers run together in my mind when I think of the desert.” “Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses“ boldly demonstrates the new subjects that the artist encountered during her first summers in New Mexico, including dried animal bones and fabric flowers used to adorn gravesites. Yet it is also a New York picture. O’Keeffe shipped “barrels and boxes of bones” back east to refer to as she painted Southwestern compositions like this one in her Shelton Hotel apartment. She positioned the skull at the front of the picture plane to enhance its monumentality—an approach she used across her work, including her New Yorks, florals, still lifes, and early paintings of the Southwest. https://bit.ly/3WRTzCJ Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887–1986), Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses, 1931, oil on canvas, The Art Institute of Chicago, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, gift of Georgia O’Keeffe, 1947.712. ? The Art Institute of Chicago.