Contributors

Kevin W. Tucker is the High Museum of Art’s Chief Curator. With more than two decades of curatorial and museum leadership experience, he directs the High’s curatorial program and oversees interpretation, research, and development of the collections. In addition, he works with the executive staff and across curatorial departments to develop plans for permanent collection […]

Claudia Einecke is the High Museum’s Frances B. Bunzl Family Curator of European Art. She studied art history in her native Germany and in the United States, receiving a master’s degree from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, and a doctorate from the University of Missouri, Columbia.  Before coming to the High, Dr. Einecke held curatorial positions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, […]

Gregory Harris is the High Museum of Art’s Associate Curator of Photography. He is a specialist in documentary photography best known for his work with emerging artists. Harris was previously the Associate Curator at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, where he curated exhibitions including Sonja Thomsen: Glowing Wavelengths in Between (2015), The Sochi Project: An Atlas of […]

Katherine “Katie” Jentleson, PhD, joined the High Museum of Art in September 2015 as the Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art. Before she became a curator, Dr. Jentleson worked as an arts journalist in New York. Through her editorial assignments and general experiences at galleries and museums there, she discovered her passion […]

Stephanie Heydt joined the High Museum of Art as Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art in 2009. She has also worked at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Largo, Florida, the American Art Department at the Harvard University Art Museums, and the Terra Museum of American Art (now the Terra Foundation for American […]

Michael Rooks joined the High as Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in January 2010. In addition to his responsibilities at the High, he was appointed Commissioner and co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in 2010 and was a member of ActArt, President Obama’s […]

Randall Suffolk is the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., Director of the High Museum of Art. Since his arrival in 2015, he has championed a renewed commitment to community engagement, placing emphasis on collaboration, inclusivity, and access. To support these objectives, the Museum has reduced admission fees, greatly diversified its exhibition schedule, added more […]

Mark Mills serves as the High’s Associate Director of Individual Giving, working closely with our Director’s Circle and Circles annual donor programs. Prior to joining the High in 2020, Mills served in development leadership positions for some of the nation’s premier arts and cultural institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution, The Phillips Collection, Philadelphia Museum of […]

Sarah Kennel is the High Museum of Art’s Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography. She joined the High in July 2019 from the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, where she oversaw an extensive collection of photographs dating from 1839 to the present and managed an active and globally oriented photography program. […]