The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is
the leading art museum in the southeastern United States. With more than
12,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has
an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American and decorative art;
significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African
American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art,
photography and African art. The High is also dedicated to supporting and
collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major
museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted
to the field of folk and self-taught art. The High’s media arts department
produces acclaimed annual film series and festivals of foreign, independent
and classic cinema. In November 2005, the High opened three new buildings by
architect Renzo Piano that more than doubled the Museum’s size, creating a
vibrant “village for the arts” at the Woodruff Arts Center in midtown
Atlanta. For more information about the High, please visit www.High.org.