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Whitney Kids Summer Family Day
Categories: EducationBlogThe Whitney welcomed families to the Museum on July 9 for a day of music, artmaking, and family-friendly guided tours celebrating Stuart Davis: In Full Swing and other...
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Stuart Davis Drawing Workshop
Categories: EducationBlogOn July 8, educator and visual artist Mark Joshua Epstein led a drop-in drawing workshop inspired by the exhibition, Stuart Davis: In Full Swing. Epstein created an exuberant,...
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Representative John Lewis in Conversation with Danny Lyon
Categories: EducationBlogIn conjunction with the exhibition Danny Lyon: Message to the Future, the Whitney hosted a conversation between Congressman John Lewis and artist Danny Lyon on July 15. Lewis...
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YI Arts Careers meet with Conservation
Categories: TeensBlogOn July 19, YI Arts Careers met with Heather Cox, Executive Coordinator of Conservation and Matthew Skopek, Associate Conservator. Cox was a part of the original Conservation team...
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YI Arts Careers visit MoMA PS1
Categories: TeensBlogOn July 21, YI Arts Careers traveled to Long Island City, Queens to visit MoMA PS1. This museum is one of my personal favorites. To me, contemporary art in the context of a school...
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YI Arts Careers Visit The Center
Categories: TeensBlogOn July 27, YI Art Careers visited The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. The Whitney has a special partnership with The Center and has facilitated drop-in...
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Mirror Cells with Associate Curator Jane Panetta
Categories: TeensBlogYI Arts Careers met with Jane Panetta, Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum, to discuss her job and Mirror Cells, an exhibition that she co-curated with Associate Curator,...
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YI Arts Careers Visits Alice Austen House
Categories: TeensBlogOn July 20, YI Arts Careers visited the Alice Austen House in Staten Island. We met with Executive Director, Janice Monger and Director of Education, Ann Marie McDonnell who talked...
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YI Meets Sophia Al-Maria
Categories: TeensBlogOn July 25, Sophia Al-Maria met with YI Art Careers to talk about her experience as an artist and her exhibition, Black Friday. Her installation shows the experience of being in a...
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Artivist Teen Night
Categories: TeensBlogThe purpose of the High Line’s Artivist Teen Night on August 11 was to empower teenagers to lift their voices to inspire change within our communities. We as teenagers often feel...
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Youth Insights Introductions Workshop with Sophia Al-Maria
Categories: EducationBlogTeens in the Whitney’s Youth Insights Introductions summer program participated in a special workshop with exhibiting artist Sophia Al-Maria on July 19. Youth Insights...
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Whitney Educator Training
Categories: EducationBlogThis September, the Whitney’s Education department held a week-long training for the Museum’s staff and educators working in School, Family, Access, and Community programs....
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Open Studio For Teens: Contour Drawing
Categories: EducationBlogOn Friday, September 30, the Whitney welcomed New York City teens for Open Studio, our free drop-in art-making program. The theme of the first session this fall was contour and...
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DOUGLAS CRIMP AND JULIANE REBENTISCH ON BEFORE PICTURES
Categories: EducationBlogThe Whitney welcomed Douglas Crimp and Juliane Rebentisch on September 10 for a reading and discussion of Crimp’s newest book Before Pictures: New York City 1967-1977...
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Halloween Teen Night
Categories: EducationBlogYouth Insights (YI) Leaders collaborated with artist Stewart Uoo and performer Bailey Stiles to plan and host a Halloween Night for teens on October 28. Uoo’s work, No Sex, No...
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Halloween Teen Night
Categories: TeensBlogDIY costumes, makeup, tarot card readings, and performances. We had it all for Halloween Teen Night at the Whitney on October 28.This program kickstarted the first of many teen...
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Teens Meet Leidy Churchman
Categories: EducationBlogOn October 13, Youth Insights (YI) Artists met with Leidy Churchman, whose painting is on view in the exhibition Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection....
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Open Studio: Oskar Schlemmer
Categories: EducationBlogFamilies participated in a special Open Studio program on November 5 to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016. Kids made...
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Unravel
Categories: EducationBlogIn December, Education invited the artist collective Unravel to participate in a week-long residency in conjunction with the exhibition Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art...
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SPEAK OUT, OPEN DISCUSSIONS, AND MY AMERICA TOURS ON INAUGURATION DAY
Categories: EducationBlogOn Friday, January 20, Inauguration Day, the Education Department welcomed visitors on a pay-what-you-wish basis. Throughout the day, the Whitney offered special programs to...
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Interview with MPA
Categories: TeensBlogIn November, Youth Insights leaders met with artist MPA to discuss her exhibition MPA: RED IN VIEW. MPA also led a workshop called the Grid. In February 2017, YI Leader Gia...
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MPA Interviews a YI Leader
Categories: TeensBlogIn February, YI Leader Gia interviewed the artist MPA, whose exhibition MPA: RED IN VIEW is at the Museum through February 27, 2017. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to pick...
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Dreamlands with Jenny Perlin
Categories: EducationBlogIn January, artist Jenny Perlin collaborated with Education for a series of artmaking workshops and gallery experiences for Whitney family and school audiences. Perlin’s film...
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Open Studio for Teens: Tamara Renée Davidson
Categories: TeensBlogOn November 4, Tamara Renée Davidson led a workshop on improvisation, abstraction, and electronic music. Davidson started off by asking the group what improvisation was and how we...
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MPA Waterfront Gathering
Categories: EducationBlogAccess and Community Programs staff convened with a number of the Museum’s neighborhood community partners, artists, and cultural workers on Sunday, January 29. Organized...
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