HIGH Museum of Modern Art a Friday Night Outting



HIGH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART in ATLANTA GA

HIGH Museum of Art I was invited out for FRIDAY JAZZ NIGHT- by Cynthia Williams, a member of the HIGH, who is a jazz enthusiast, and art supporter.

January's Friday Jazz performer is jazz organist, Ike Stubblefield. Friday Jazz is an evening of art & music every third Friday of the month, including live musical performances and extended hours with full gallery access.

Ike is currently performing worldwide while also working on his new album with various musicians, including drummers Sonny Emory, Jeff Sipe, Marcus Williams, Little John Roberts, J.Fly, and Yonrico Scott; Jeff Coffin; saxophonist Freddy V.; trumpeter Joey Sommerville; guitarists Grant Green Jr., Mike Seal, and Derek Scott; and bassists Oteil Burbridge and Felix Pastorius. The album is slated for an early 2011 release.

"Friends of The Writer's Well, reach out and support visiting artists."

 Celebrate Southern Folk Art by far this was my favorite exhibit.

The High is dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists, and is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a full-time curator specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art.

The nucleus of the folk art collection is the T. Marshall Hahn Collection, donated in 1996, and Judith Alexander's gift of 130 works by Atlanta artist Nellie Mae Rowe. Other notable works include those of Reverend Howard Finster, Bill Traylor, Thornton Dial, Ulysses Davis, Sam Doyle, William Hawkins, and Mattie Lou O'Kelley. The collection of more than 750 objects also boasts extraordinary examples by artists from beyond the South, such as Henry Darger, Martín Ramírez, and Joseph Yoakum.