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Activities

These activities focus on works of art in the Whitney’s collection and special exhibitions. Through discussion, research, art making, and writing activities, we hope to encourage close looking, foster conversation between students, and connect artwork to classroom learning. Learn about our four artist-centered themes.

A Narrative Dimension

Overhead view of miniature wheelchairs and toilet stalls

Write a collaborative story

Climate Change

Art project with two mannequins.

Draw a human who has evolved to cope with climate change

Frame it

semi-abstract landscape in bright green, orange, and red

Use a viewfinder to make a drawing


All Activities

A Narrative Dimension

A Very Long Line

Museum as Classroom, Classroom as Museum

Climate Change

Signs, Plaques, Markers

Seeing the Everyday Anew

Know Your Neighbor

Frame it

Post-it

Is it art?

Object and Color, Color and Object

Color, Form, Edge

Abstraction

Positive and Negative Space

3D Drawing and Geometry

Multiple Self-portrait

Synecdoche and Metonymy

Anthropomorphic Objects

Portraits without People

Reality Check

Self-portraits

Portraits of other people

Group Portrait

Surveillance Selfies

Art & Activism

What is a portrait?

Not Secret Anymore

1984

Redaction

Invasion of Privacy

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