You have some fruit and a vase in your house and maybe tulips or dogwoods blossoming in the yard?
Or maybe you have a fedora and vintage record player pushed to the back of a closet?
Pull them out. They might help you get through sheltering in place and extreme social distancing, or so the High Museum of Art believes.
The museum started its #HighMuseumatHome challenge on Instagram and is encouraging people to recreate paintings, sculptures and photographs from its permanent collection with whatever they have at home and post pictures of the results. The High's challenge is directly inspired by @tussenkunstenquarantaine which already has more than 94,000 followers.
Like museums around the world, the High shuttered its doors earlier this month in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. And like museums around the world, without paying customers, it’s taking a financial hit. Even so, the High is trying to keep itself open, albeit virtually, with the Instagram campaign and through its website.
“Right after we closed, we had a big brainstorm on how to keep the audience engaged,” said Kristen Brown, of the High. “We want to keep the High in the minds of Atlantans.”
The museum has not set a reopening date. In the meantime, it will continue some free, online art projects in the hope that when it does reopen, visitors will want to pay to see what for now they can only experience virtually.
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