MODA EVENTS
Salt & Stillness: A Morning of Sound, Stillness & Design
In-person at MODA
Join us for SALT & Stillness, an intimate morning inside MODA's SALT: A Design Story exhibition. Begin the morning with coffee, light bites, and time to explore the exhibition before settling in for a guided sound bath
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Educators Night
In-person at MODA
Teachers, administrators, specialists, and homeschool educators are invited to spend an evening at MODA exploring how design can inspire curiosity across the curriculum. Enjoy a glass of wine and connect with fellow educators while touring SALT: A Design Story.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Business X Design: Harvin Greene of Dossier
In-person at MODA
In this edition of Business X Design, Harvin will be in conversation with Gene Kansas about how she has built a practice — and a brand — around the conviction that a well-designed life is an intentional one.
Free Friday
In-person at MODA
Good design is for everyone. Come see for yourself.
MODA is opening its doors wider. Join us for a Free Friday sponsored by John Wieland
Design Next: What is Architecture?
In-Person at Peachtree Branch Library | 9th–12th Grade
In this session of Design Next, students explore architecture's definition, famous architects, design types, and its everyday role.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Beautiful Briny Sea: Salt Tasting and Blending with Suzi Sheffield
In-person at MODA
What turns a pinch of salt into a story?
Join us at MODA for an evening of tasting, talking, and blending salt with Suzi Sheffield, founder of the Atlanta-based company, Beautiful Briny Sea.
Free Friday
In-person at MODA
Good design is for everyone. Come see for yourself.
MODA is opening its doors wider. Join us for a Free Friday!
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
The Reid House: Atlanta's Finest Apartment Building
In-person at MODA
Celebrate the Atlanta Design Festival and We Want More History Day with MODA as we learn about the design and history of the Reid House Condominiums, a 10-story Neo-Classical and Georgian Revival landmark just across the street from the museum, designed by Philip Trammell Shutze and Neel Reid.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Free Friday
In-person at MODA
Good design is for everyone. Come see for yourself.
MODA is opening its doors wider. Join us for a Free Friday sponsored by Gene Kansas & DeAnna Kansas!
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Free Friday
In-person at MODA
Good design is for everyone. Come see for yourself.
MODA is opening its doors wider. Join us for a Free Friday!
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Salt & Spirits: A Whiskey Tasting with Dad's Whiskey Stash
In-person at MODA
Enjoy a whiskey tasting by Dad’s Whiskey Tasting in the context of MODA’s current exhibition, SALT: A Design Story.
This event is a Board-organized fundraiser with all proceeds benefiting MODA.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Salt, Time, and the Smoky Mountain Ham: A Conversation with Darrell Benton
In-person at MODA
Esquire Magazine called Benton’s bacon “the best in the world.” Join us for a conversation about the magic that salt and time can work on meat, and taste Benton’s ham and bacon alongside High Wire Distilling’s Smoked Jimmy Red Bourbon.
Beautiful Briny Sea x Lewis Pogue: Salt and Chocolate Tasting with Suzi Sheffield and Tom Simons
In-person at MODA
Why does a pinch of salt make chocolate taste more like chocolate?
For one evening only, Suzi Sheffield of Beautiful Briny Sea joins Tom Simons of Lewis Pogue Artisan Chocolate to put their work side by side—and talk about why salt makes chocolate taste so much better!
Design Next: Seeing & Sketching
In-Person at Peachtree Branch Library | 9th–12th Grade
In this session of Design Next, we’ll explore how architects use drawing to observe, communicate, and develop ideas.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Beautiful Briny Sea: Salt Tasting and Blending with Suzi Sheffield
SOLD OUT
What turns a pinch of salt into a story?
Join us at MODA for an evening of tasting, talking, and blending salt with Suzi Sheffield, founder of the Atlanta-based company, Beautiful Briny Sea.
Free Friday
In-person at MODA
Good design is for everyone. Come see for yourself.
MODA is opening its doors wider. Join us for a Free Friday sponsored by Eleanor Edmondson.
Craft, Conversation, & Coffee: A Workshop on Legacy & Latch-Hook
In-person at MODA
In this hands-on workshop, Banks will teach participants basic latch-hook techniques using reclaimed coffee sacks and recycled yarn. While you work, she'll share what she's uncovered about her family's roots in the coffee industry.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Free Freaky Friday
In-person at MODA
Good design is for everyone. Come see for yourself.
MODA is opening its doors wider. Join us for a Free Friday!
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Design Next: Design & Layout
In-Person at Peachtree Branch Library | 9th–12th Grade
In this session of Design Next, students learn to read floor plans and design their own room layouts.
Queer Figure Drawing: Queer Across Generations
In-person at MODA
What does it mean to grow older in a queer body, surrounded by queer community?
Join MODA's Queer Figure Drawing Night with Ashanti Hampton for Queer Across Generations, a special session celebrating queer bodies across time.
Design Next: Creating Plans
In-Person at Peachtree Branch Library | 9th–12th Grade
In this session of Design Next, students explore architectural drawings, then design and test a compact structure's layout.
Free Friday
In-person at MODA
Good design is for everyone. Come see for yourself.
MODA is opening its doors wider. Join us for a Free Friday sponsored by Miami Ad School.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Design Book Club: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
In-person at Peachtree Library | 12-1 pm
Join us for a discussion of Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky, whose book traces salt’s influence on economies, politics, technology, cuisine, and culture across centuries and continents.
Free Friday
In-person at MODA
Good design is for everyone. Come see for yourself.
MODA is opening its doors wider. Join us for a Free Friday.
MODA Members Meetup: Inside The Auction, Life of an Object
In-person at Ahlers & Ogletree | 11am-1pm
Join fellow MODA members at Ahlers & Ogletree for a behind-the-scenes look at how auctions bring design to new homes.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Free Friday
In-person at MODA
Good design is for everyone. Come see for yourself.
MODA is opening its doors wider. Join us for a Free Friday sponsored by First Not Only Network
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Business X Design: Aaron Fender of Portrait Coffee
In-person at MODA
In this edition of Business x Design, Aaron will be in conversation with Gene Kansas about the decisions—geographic, architectural, and economic—behind building a company that treats its supply chain and its neighborhood as design problems worth solving.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Design Book Club: Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun
In-person at Peachtree Library | 12-1 pm
Join the Museum of Design Atlanta for a discussion of Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun by Malterre-Barthes, Charlotte. This beautifully illustrated book examines the life and work of pioneering designer and architect Eileen Gray, focusing on her iconic seaside villa, E-1027.
Free Friday
In-person at MODA
Good design is for everyone. Come see for yourself.
MODA is opening its doors wider. Join us for a Free Friday sponsored by anonymous donors!
Pinch of Salt: Handwriting, Heritage & Recipes
In-person at MODA
In this hands-on workshop, led by renowned cursive artist and educator Stef Alicia McCalmon you’ll explore the relationship between handwriting, food, heritage, and design through storytelling and making.
Atlanta's Hip-Hop Geography
In-person at Wild Heaven West End Garden Club | Free
Dr. Regina N. Bradley traces the streets, studios, clubs, and gathering spaces that turned Atlanta into a hip-hop capital.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Free Friday
In-person at MODA
Good design is for everyone. Come see for yourself.
MODA is opening its doors wider. Join us for a Free Friday sponsored by Doug & Jane Grimmett!
Enter the Trap: How Trap Rap Maps Out Atlanta
In-person at Wild Heaven West End Garden Club | Free
Dr. Bradley examines trap as a form of critical storytelling: a genre that documents labor, aspiration, inequality, and survival.
Queer Figure Drawing: Bodies In Motion
In-person at MODA
What does a body look like mid-leap, mid-turn, mid-breath?
Join MODA's Queer Figure Drawing Night with Ashanti Hampton for a session centered on movement.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
Exhibit Tour of SALT: A Design Story
In-person at MODA
Salt built our world.
Join us for a staff-led guided tour of SALT: A Design Story.
MODA Members Meetup: Designing Cultural Connection at ADAMA
In-person at ADAMA | 12pm-1pm
What can a football match tell us about migration, memory, and home?
Join fellow MODA members for an afternoon at ADAMA, the African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta.
Free Friday
In-person at MODA
Good design is for everyone. Come see for yourself.
MODA is opening its doors wider. Join us for a Free Friday sponsored by an anonymous donor!
Fragments Into Form: A Collage & Zine Workshop
In-person at MODA
How can collage and zine design transform everyday fragments into meaningful visual stories?
Join Felicia E. Gail at the Museum of Design Atlanta for a hands-on workshop where cutting, layering, and assembling become ways of thinking through place, image, and narrative.