Virginia Shearer
Eleanor McDonald Storza Director Of Education
Virginia Shearer, the Eleanor McDonald Storza Director of Education at the High Museum of Art, has more than twenty years of experience in museum education. Shearer oversees all areas of the High’s Department of Education, where she focuses on creating a platform for engagement and connectivity that extends the Museum’s reach and deepens the High’s relationships with the Atlanta community through experimental, collaborative, and research-based practice. Since joining the High in 2005, she has initiated, led, and participated in cross-institutional initiatives that are key to the Museum’s future, including such innovative projects as the High’s summer Piazza activation commission series, the newly designed Greene Family Learning Gallery, and Read, See, Play, a series of popular exhibitions focused on children’s picture book art.
