Courses
Expand your perspectives through innovative courses offered every fall, winter, and spring.
Please email us with any questions: courses@whitney.org.
Installation view of Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 17, 2020–May 17, 2020). Photograph by Ryan Lowry
Art Beyond Borders
Taking the exhibition Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 as a point of departure, this course explores how artists challenge conventional ideas of citizenship and belonging while creating new forms of community. If art has, on one hand, been thought of as a nation’s most precious heritage, it has also provided a powerful means for reflecting on and reimagining forms of political inclusion and exclusion.
A Museum educator leads a discussion about Henry Koerner's 1946 artwork, Mirror of Life, 2018. Photograph by Isabelle Dow
Crash Courses
In these intensive, single-session courses, noted experts provide an overview of key topics in modern and contemporary art.
Course participants look closely at artwork in the Sondra Gilman Study Center, 2017. Photograph by Filip Wolak
How to Look
Develop your powers of attentiveness by learning simple tools for observing and describing works of art. Course participants will have special access to the Museum galleries after hours.
