5 things to do: Traveller Bar pop-up

Cross Country: The Power of Place in American Art, 1915-1950

High Museum of Art - 1280 Peachtree St. N.E. Atlanta, GA 30309 Free-14.50. 10 a.m.

This sweeping exhibition features 200+ works by famous artists including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz, Peter Sekaer, N. C. Wyeth, Georgia O’Keeffe, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Jacob Lawrence, Grandma Moses, Hale Woodruff and Bill Traylor, among many others. Shedding light on a rarely examined topic in the history of modernism, Cross Country: The Power of Place in American Art, 1915-1950 uncovers how experiences of rural life fundamentally changed the direction of American art.

Traveler Bar pop-up

Loews Atlanta Hotel - 1065 Peachtree St. N.E. Atlanta, GA 30309 Free. 6 p.m.

Revamping the traditional hotel bar experience, fifty rare and vintage cocktail books emerge along with a first-edition of the oldest cocktail recipe book ever written. Browse the library digitally and enjoy a selection of eight classic cocktails in the 1930s-style speakeasy.

Suffer & Grow Strong: The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas

Heritage Sandy Springs - 6110 Blue Stone Road N.E. Sandy Springs, GA 30328 Free. 6:30 p.m.

Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas was an affluent southerner who became an essential voice in the suffrage and temperance movements. This lecture focuses on her life and pulls from the diary she started at the young age of 14. Join Carolyn Curry, the Founder and Director of Women Alone Together, as she discusses Thomas’ loss of children, the impact of the Civil War, and how her fearlessness led her to break boundaries.

Setting the Bar: A Craft Chocolate Origin Story

Atlanta Botanical Garden - 1345 Piedmont Ave. N.E. Atlanta, GA 30309 Free. 7 p.m.

Elaine Read and Matt Weyandt, the co-owners of Krog Street Market’s Xocolatl Small Batch Chocolate, appear in the film Setting the Bar: A Craft Chocolate Origin Story. The director Time Shepard gives a special preview of the documentary about the journey of chocolate from the bean to the bar in stores. Read and Weyandt will talk to guests about creating sustainable and artisanal chocolate products. Reservations are not required.

Flatfoot 56

The Earl - 488 Flat Shoals Ave. S.E. Atlanta, GA 30316 $10-$12. 8 p.m.