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Teaching Tips

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:53:16 -0400

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How do you lead an open-ended discussion with your students focused on a work of art? What questions can you ask to encourage them to look closely and think critically? Will sharing information about the art and artist stifle students’ imaginative responses? Whitney educators have some tips and suggestions to offer as you plan your inquiry-based lesson.

What’S New

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:47:00 -0400

For Families With Babies Ages 0–18 Months

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:12:11 -0400

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Whitney Teaching Fellows, PhD candidates in art history, lead engaging tours of current exhibitions for new moms and dads when the Museum is closed to the public. Crying babies are welcome!

$25 per adult ($10 for Family Series members or Friend-level members and higher). Registration for this program is required.

Common Core

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:06:35 -0400

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School and Educator Programs at the Whitney have long supported classroom learning in the ways encouraged by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Our artist-centered, inquiry-based tours and multi-part programs develop skills in evidential reasoning, critical thinking, and public speaking. By collaborating with administrators and teachers, our tours and programs build content knowledge and help students understand and appreciate diverse perspectives. We want to inspire students to think like artists—critically and creatively—so that they can be successful twenty-first-century learners.

The CCSS require that students who are college and career ready to exhibit the following traits with increasing fullness and regularity as they progress in grade level. K-12 programs at the Whitney reinforce and enhance these traits.

At Your Center

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:22:54 -0400

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At The Whitney

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:22:14 -0400

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The Whitney’s Open Access Days provide groups from participating senior centers access to the Museum on a day when the Whitney is closed to the public. Participants can take part in a guided tour, for which Assisted Listening Devices are offered to those seniors in need. Seating is provided in the galleries for comfort and convenience, and complimentary refreshments are provided after the tour. Open Access Days sometimes also offer seniors the rare opportunity to meet and chat with an artist whose work is currently on view. Open Access Days are scheduled in the fall and spring.

Community Partners

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:12:02 -0400

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Since 1994, the Whitney Museum has partnered with a select number of diverse, community-based senior organizations to offer a unique range of programs and resources for older adults at the Museum and off-site. The Whitney continues to offer its resources to this established base of community partners, many of which are members of the United Neighborhood Houses.

Community Collaborative: The Veteran’S Lens

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:03:16 -0400

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In summer 2011, Biennial artist and photojournalist Nina Berman co-taught a series of hands-on photography workshops with Whitney educator Melanie Adsit for a group of veterans at the VANYHHS, a veterans’ hospital in Brooklyn, New York. The participants, twelve men and women who had served in armed conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam, had worked extensively with an art therapist at the hospital to explore the theme of identity over several months. This series of workshops represented an opportunity to experiment with a new medium and to use photography to reveal something about themselves. The group discussed images in the Whitney’s collection, explored different photographic and lighting techniques, and worked with Nina to create black and white portraits of one another. While Berman’s own work includes searing depictions of injured veterans and explores the costs of war, this project represents the first time the artist has worked collaboratively with a group of veterans to create images that told their own stories.

Community Partnerships

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:58:28 -0400

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The Whitney’s Community Partnerships are sustained, extended relationships that bring educators and artists into an organization for extended programming and promote the Museum as an essential resource.

School Partnerships

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:38:11 -0400

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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.

Our established partnerships are with Gotham Professional Arts Academy in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, West Side Collaborative Middle School 250 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and Chelsea Preparatory Public School 33 in the Chelsea district, also in Manhattan.

Classroom Collaboratives

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:36:37 -0400

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In this three-part series, a Museum educator works with the classroom teacher to design a customized program and will visit the school before and after the Museum visit.

School Programs Themes

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:34:02 -0400

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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 multi-faceted role that artists play in American culture and society.

School Programs uses a thematic-based approach to teaching in the galleries. Our themes are meant to create more thoughtful connections between K-12 classroom learning and the art on view. Below you will find short descriptions of our themes with works from the Whitney’s collection that represent those ideas. Please note that not all of these works are on view at the Museum.

Studio Collaboratives

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:24:28 -0400

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New! In this two-part series, a Museum educator works with the classroom teacher to design a customized program and visits the school a week before the Museum visit. During the Museum visit, students spend an hour on a guided tour in the galleries followed by an hour of art-making in our Whitney Studio. It’s a great chance for students to see and make some art!

Guided Visit + Studio

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:22:47 -0400

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New! This program invites students to have a one-hour guided tour in the galleries followed by an hour of art making in our pop-up studio. This opportunity to explore materials and experiment with processes encourages students to think like artists and be inspired by artists’ ideas. The making experience in the studio also connects well to the looking experience in the galleries!

Guided Visits

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:16:57 -0400

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In an hour-long thematic gallery tour that builds upon classroom learning, a Museum educator introduces students to three to five works of art through discussions and activities that incorporate the artist’s voice and process.

K 12

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:11:50 -0400

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Check out our Teacher Guides, designed for educators to use as a resource in the classroom before and after a visit to the Whitney.

Conversations On Art

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:09:48 -0400

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Artists, critics, writers, and scholars participate in roundtable conversations and panel discussions that respond to works on view and to broader trends within American culture at large.

Adults

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:05:30 -0400

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Provocative, rigorous, experimental programs that engage audiences in critical conversations on art and culture and involve artists at every level.

Community

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:24:04 -0400

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Contemporary artists grapple with many of the same complex issues that our modern communities do—from race and gender to war, aging, and identity. Through detailed observation, innovative processes, and creativity, artists provide us with new ways of understanding and looking at the world around us. The Whitney’s pre-eminent collection and exhibitions of American art can serve as a focal point for exploration, dialogue, and self-expression for our diverse communities.

My Turn

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:03:03 -0400

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My Turn expands the definition of a museum program by inviting a guest artist to interpret another artist’s work.

Collection For Teachers

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:15:04 -0400

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The Whitney’s collection— comprising more than 19,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos, and new media by more than 2,900 artists—contains some of the most significant and exciting work created by artists in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

For Teachers

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:10:22 -0400

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Families

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 20 May 2013 09:53:20 -0400

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Whitney Family Programs offer interactive tours, art making workshops, and special events that encourage kids and adults to learn about art together.

The Whit Blog

Whitney Museum of American Art — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:38:31 -0400

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Teen Writing

Whitney Museum of American Art — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:35:55 -0400

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Teens in the Whitney’s Youth Insights Writers program selected some of their favorite works of art in the Whitney’s collection and exhibitions to highlight here.

Explore the collection yourself and find your own favorites!