We collaborate with teachers to provide inquiry-based programs that explore American art, artists, and culture in order to expand and enrich K−12 classroom learning, and foster curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking.
Check out For Teachers to explore materials and resources developed especially for K-12 audiences.
Check out our Teacher Guides, designed for educators to use as a resource in the classroom before and after a visit to the Whitney.
See all guidesGuided Visit + Studio, Classroom Collaboratives, and Studio Collaboratives are sold out for this school year. Please check back in August to sign up for the 2013–2014 school year.
A limited number of Guided Visits are available for summer 2013, so sign up soon!
Are you an experimenter, observer, storyteller, or critic? Learn more about our tour themes and how they apply to your classroom.
Find out how School and Educator Programs at the Whitney connect to the Common Core State Standards.
Artists’ ideas are at the center of Whitney School programs. We ask K-12 students to think like artists and challenge them to be critical observers of their world. Through the careful examination of artists’ ideas, materials and processes, students consider the artist in multiple ways–as observer, rule-breaker, experimenter, storyteller, and witness to history.
School programs use works of art in the Whitney’s collection and exhibitions to create a forum for ideas, debate, and exchange. Programs at the Museum and in the classroom offer students and teachers opportunities to explore American art while learning from artists and each other.
New! A Museum visit that connects a guided gallery tour with hands-on art making in our pop-up studio.
New! A two-part program consisting of a pre-visit to the school and a Guided Visit + Studio.
A three-part series that include visits to your school before and after the Museum visit.
We are committed to creating in-depth, long term partnerships with a small group of New York City schools and evaluating the impact of arts education on student learning.
Did you know that the Whitney offers free tours for New York City public school groups?
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