High Art – At the Intersection of Cannabis and Creativity

High Art is an amazing competition held by The Natural Cannabis Company every year, and a way they give back to the arts community

We’ve been hosting our special 420 tours to pot farms in California’s Emerald Triangle for every kind of traveler and tourist from every corner of the globe, from the simply idly curious tourists who don’t imbibe at all, but are just fascinated by visiting farms in California, to all kinds of cannasseurs, cronisseurs, ganjiers, amateur home growers and professional weed growers from practically everywhere for several years now, and we love introducing our guests to not only the incredible beauty of Mendocino County, but also the amazing generosity and community spirit of all the folks in the Northern California cannabis community.  Many of the companies in the cannabis space have found all sorts of interesting ways of giving back.  One of our favorites is The Natural Cannabis Company.

Last year’s winner – From Outer Emotions To Life by Usabimana Eustache

Before heading out to meet the weed farmers out on the Mendocino farms, all of our weed tours begin at MendoCann dispensary in Hopland, California, in southern Mendocino County at the southern entrance to California cannabis country.  MendoCann, one of 3 dispensaries under the ownership of the Natural Cannabis Company, (the other two are Oakland Organics in Oakland and OrganiCann in Santa Rosa) greets customers with amazing art on its walls, on clothing in their gift shop, on postcards and  stickers that they often give away, and in beautiful art compilation books.  The Natural Cannabis Company sponsors a worldwide annual cannabis art competition each year called High Art.  All artists (ages 18 and up) can enter the contest from anywhere in the world for free, submitting as many pieces as they want that fit the current year’s theme.  

My Precious – by Oleg Shvedchenko

It is truly an international competition. Last year the theme was “It came from outer space”, and the winning entry was a piece called From Outer Emotions To Life by Usabimana Eustache, an artist from Rwanda.  Over the years winners have come from all over the world.  You can check out many of the entries on the High Art Competition’s Instagram page, and you can learn a lot more about the various artists who have entered the competition in the past on the High Art blog.