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Greene Family Learning Gallery

To marking the 50th ceremony of its delivery to family spaces, the High debuted a total redesign of its Greene Family Learning Gallery with new interactive environments.

Located adjacent to the Robinson Atrium in the Stent Family unit Wing, the Greene Family Learning Gallery has expanded to include a 2,000-square-foot infinite across the hall from its previous footprint. The High's Education section worked with Roto pattern house to create the Gallery's two distinct spaces based on a gear up of goals, which were informed past years of visitor observation, community adept input, and research. Each infinite offers a welcoming, safe and fun environment that is child-centered and child-directed with age-appropriate activities for kids ranging from babies to 8-year-olds. The open-ended, intuitive, multi-sensory elements, designed to exist inclusive for all, combine cutting-edge applied science with hands-on activities.

Our goals for the new Greene Family Learning Gallery are to:

Offer a space for families to make memories while fostering stronger connections betwixt caregivers and children.
Empower children and their caregivers to explore the Museum and more than confidently engage with its collection.
Inspire wonder and encourage children to be curious most the fine art they run into every day.
Celebrate inventiveness, imagination, empathy, and play, and help families develop these skills through one-of-a-kind interactive experiences found only at the High.

The previous Greene Family Learning Gallery infinite became"CREATE," a bright and open studio devoted to developing immature visitors' fine art-making abilities and centered on the creative procedure. The newly created second Gallery infinite,"EXPERIENCE," is a deeply immersive gallery that enables visitors to explore what art means, how it feels, and where it can take us. Each Gallery space features a placidity space with activities designed for reflection as well as an area specifically for babies and toddlers.

The new Gallery debuted in Oct 2018, coinciding with the collection reinstallation reveal.

The Greene Family Learning Gallery is open during regular museum hours and is included in museum admission. In addition to the Gallery, the Loftier offers a wide range of family programming, including Summer Art Camps and the pop Toddler Thursday and Second Sunday events.

- Engage in fun and safe play with your toddlers and babies in our designated toddler areas
- Placidity play spaces are available for contemplative reflection
- We invite y'all to park your strollers in our stroller parking areas so that you can play with your children without constraints
- No running, jumping, or climbing immune to maintain a calm and safe environment
- No food or drinks are allowed. If you demand to take a snack break, tables and chairs are located in the nearby antechamber where nutrient is allowed
Please note that the Greene Family Learning Gallery is airtight during evening events such equally High Frequency Fridays or Friday Jazz.
Over the past year, the High Museum of Art convened experts from around Atlanta who piece of work in dissimilar areas of education, from early on learning and design thinking, to accessibility and serving people with disabilities, to brainstorm for the new Greene Family Learning Gallery. Hear beneath from a few of our trusted advisors, whose input has been invaluable in shaping the projection and creating a family gallery that the High hopes volition be a national model.

Sarah Bridges-Rhoads, Assistant Professor, Co-Coordinator of the Master of Arts in Creative and Innovative Pedagogy (MACIE), Georgia State University
"I am very excited most how the Greene Family Learning Gallery invites children and families to engage and experiment with various creative processes and techniques. Children and families will exist able to build upon and reimagine those processes and techniques as they create at habitation together!" —Sarah Bridges-Rhoads, Ph.D.

Margie Cooper, President, Inspired Practices in Early Education and board fellow member, North American Reggio Emilia Alliance
"The High Museum is poised to interact beautifully with children and their families through the newly expanded Greene Family Learning Gallery. The innovative experiences children volition enjoy each time they visit the Museum will become part of what childhood means in Atlanta." —Margie Cooper, Ph.D.

Emily Max, Kindergarten Instructor, Toomer Elementary School, Atlanta Public Schools
"The Greene Family Learning Gallery integrates the visual appeal and composure of the High Museum into a child-centered space that ignites endless possibilities for open-concluded play, imagination, and inventiveness. Each visit to the gallery will open upward a new learning experience with different opportunities to build, create, and dream." —Emily Max

Tamara Pearson, Associate Director of Schoolhouse and Community Engagement, CEISMC, Georgia Tech
"The opening of the newly designed Greene Family Learning Gallery represents an opportunity for families of all dissimilar backgrounds to feel firsthand what makes the High Museum a special identify to visit—a place that values inventiveness, innovation, exploration, and the unique gifts that be within all of us and showcases those values in everything they do." —Tamara Pearson

Deklah Polansky, Creative Manager and Partner, studio'farrell
"Let's face information technology: despite the cultural aspirations nosotros hold dear for our children, not everyone is into a weekend visit to the art museum. For some, it is an acquired taste that does not stack upwards that well against the local h2o slide, arcade extravaganzas, or the all-consuming digital handheld screen. The new Greene Family Learning Gallery, however, feels like the perfect introduction to ease the disinterested and protesting child into a whole new interactive and sensorial artistic journey. This innovative space has the potential to spark their curiosity to become beyond the "kids space" and ask, "What else is going on here?!" I am so proud to have played a small part in shaping this vision for kids and family date. My boys and I can't wait to experience it and make it a regular weekend haunt." —Deklah Polansky

Kim Thorpe, Educational Program Specialist, Metro RESA
"The revision of the Greene Family Learning Gallery aims to offering families an inclusive environment to play and explore." —Kim Thorpe

Meghan M. Welch, Plan Specialist, L4GA Grant, Georgia Department of Education
"I've been so impressed with how the High has so intentionally focused on the inclusion of all families in the planning and redesign of infinite. This project has and will elevate Atlanta and surrounding areas as a community that values rich early childhood experiences." —Meghan M. Welch
In October of 1968, the High Museum of Art introduced its get-go dedicated infinite for families to larn, play, and explore. The first installation was calledColor/Lite/Color (1968–1971). The space explored the nature, properties, and uses of color. In a press release from 1969 or 1970, Gudmund Vigtel (director of the Loftier Museum, 1963–1991) said: "My proudest accomplishment to engagement is the Junior Activities Center established within the museum … children are the fine art audiences of the future. The more knowledgeable they are, the greater the dialog possible betwixt the community and the museum."

The family gallery space evolved during the 1980s and moved into the Richard Meier–designed Stent Family Wing. BothSensation (1983–1988) andSpectacles (1988–1993) even so garner gleeful excitement in the voices of people who regularly describe the fun they had there.

With the 2005 add-on of the buildings designed past builder Renzo Piano, we introduced the Greene Family Learning Gallery. The first installation (2005–2018) focused on 5 activity areas based around creative play and rooted in the High'south drove.

In 2018, To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the High'southward delivery to families, we have totally redesigned and expanded the Greene Family Learning Gallery with all-new interactive environments created in collaboration with Roto design firm. The new Greene Family Learning Gallery has expanded to include a 2d space direct across the hall — doubling its previous footprint. The two new galleries are called CREATE and EXPERIENCE.

Timeline:

1968–1971: Colour/Light/Color
1971–1974: Shapes
1974–1978: The Urban center
1978–1979: Children in America
1979–1983: Spaces and Illusions
1983–1988: Sensation
1988–1993: Spectacles
1993–2003: Visual Arts Learning Space (VALS)
2005–2018: The Greene Family Learning Gallery
2018–present: The Greene Family Learning Gallery – CREATE and EXPERIENCE