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The Whitney’s Collection
For Teachers
The Whitney’s collection features special content designed for K-12 audiences. Here, you’ll find information about featured artists and artworks, as well as activities for your students.
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Teacher Guides
Explore information about selected artists and works of art, topics for classroom discussion, writing activities, and art projects that introduce the key ideas of an exhibition. Download a guide before your Museum visit!
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try this!
Jay DeFeo began The Rose in 1958 with an idea that the work was going to "have a center.” For almost eight years, she kept applying thick paint, then chiseling away at it, and applying more paint.As a class, brainstorm the different ways a work of art could “have a center.”
Jay DeFeo, The Rose, 1958–66. Oil with wood and mica on canvas, 128 7/8 × 92 1/4 × 11 in. (327.3 × 234.3 × 27.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Estate of Jay DeFeo and purchase with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee and the Judith Rothschild Foundation 95.170. © 2009 The Jay DeFeo Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
educator programs
We provide programs and resources created in consultation with K−12 teachers with the goal of making the Whitney’s collection and exhibitions an integral part of classroom learning.
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Limited spaces are available for Guided Visits and Classroom Collaboratives, so sign up soon!
What’s on View
Teachers: tell us what you think!
Email suggestions to ForTeachers@whitney.org
