Academic Programs

Joan Tisch
Teaching Fellows More info 

Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow Anna Katz in 2010, the Whitney Biennial, 2010. Photograph by Ellen Tepfer

This program offers advanced graduate students the opportunity to work directly with the Whitney’s collection and audiences within a supportive community of their peers and museum educators.

Courses More info 

Trade School class at the Whitney. Photograph by Tiffany Oelfke

Whitney courses are multi-week programs that examine key issues in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American art and culture.


Academic Symposia More info 

Buckminster Fuller Symposium Keynote Roundtable.  From left, Anthony Vidler, Sanford Kwinter, Michael Sorkin. Taken in the Great Hall of The Cooper Union. Photograph by Carlton Bright

The Whitney’s annual academic symposia offer a focused look at a particular topic or artist.

University Group Tours More info 

Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow Paula Burleigh leads a tour. Photograph by Ellen Tepfer

College and university students are invited to come as a class to explore the Whitney, guided by either their professor or one of our Teaching Fellows.

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