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

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Activity Guides

Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945
Kids Activity Guide

Vida americana: Los muralistas mexicanos rehacen el arte estadounidense, 1925–1945
Guia de actividades para los niños

Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019
Kids Activity Guide 

The Whitney's Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965
Kids Activity Guide 

Past Events

2020
A family holding hands and looking at art.

Tours for Immigrant Families

Sat, Mar 7, 2020

 
Families on a Stroller Tour looking at art in the galleries.

Stroller Tour: Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945

Sat, Feb 29, 2020

 
A photo of a clay face being made by a child.

Open Studio: Greenwich House Pottery

Sat, Feb 8, 2020

 
A person sits on the floor making a collage.

Family Fun: For Families with Kids on the Autism Spectrum

Sat, Feb 8, 2020

 
A family holding hands and looking at art.

Tours for Immigrant Families

Sat, Feb 1, 2020

 
A child's hand painting.

Open Studio: Draw Your Veggies!

Sat, Jan 25, 2020

 
Families on a Stroller Tour looking at art in the galleries.

Stroller Tour: Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019

Sat, Jan 25, 2020

2019
A wall with blue river images.

Open Studio: Eve Mosher

Sat, Dec 7, 2019

 
Families on a Stroller Tour looking at art in the galleries.

Stroller Tour: Rachel Harrison Life Hack

Sat, Nov 23, 2019

 
A sculpture of three people and a dog.

Open Studio: Art This Way

Sat, Nov 9, 2019

 
A photo of a person playing the trumpet surrounded by children waving American flags.

Jazz at Lincoln Center's Jazz for Young People Family Concert

Nov 2, 11:30 am and 1 pm

 
A photo of a small child wearing butterfly wings reaching over a table of art supplies

Open Studio: Halloween

Oct 26, 10:30 am–3 pm
Oct 27, 10:30 am–3 pm

 
A photo of a person in the Whitney galleries speaking in front of a group of families

Family Tours

Select Saturdays

 
Families on a Stroller Tour looking at art in the galleries.

Cancelled: Stroller Tour: The Whitney's Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965

Sat, Sep 7, 2019

 
A still of a person hammering nails into a hammer-shaped object on a work table.

Open Studio: Ilana Harris-Babou

Sat, Aug 24, 2019

 
An aerial view of an artist generating a sound installation with a guitar.

Open Studio: Marcus Fischer

Sat, Aug 10, 2019

 
Families exploring the galleries together

Family Tours

Select Saturdays

 
An installation of metal materials mounted on a wall.

Open Studio: Robert Bittenbender

Sat, Jul 27, 2019

 
Families on a Stroller Tour looking at art in the galleries.

Stroller Tour: Whitney Biennial 2019

Sat, Jul 20, 2019

 
A photograph of a woman playing violin

Biennial Family Opening

Sat, Jun 22, 2019

 
A photograph shot from above an arts and crafts table.

Cancelled: Family Fun: Explore Color!

Sat, Apr 20, 2019

 
A 14 by 8 grid of images depicting various billboards.

Open Studio: For Freedoms

Sat, Mar 16, 2019

 
A photograph shot from above an arts and crafts table.

Family Fun: Warhol’s Experiments!

Sat, Mar 9, 2019

 
Families look at art together

Family Tours: Warhol’s Prints

Sat, Mar 2, 2019
10:45 am, 11:45 am, 12:45 pm

 
Colorful artwork of woman faces by Andy Warhol.

Open Studio: Lower East Side Print Shop

Sat, Mar 2, 2019

 
Photograph, shot from overhead, of art supplies and hands

Family Fun: Warhol and Abstraction!

Sat, Feb 23, 2019

 
Families exploring the galleries at the Whitney

Family Tours: Warhol's Drawings

Sat, Feb 9, 2019
10:45 am, 11:45 am, 12:45 pm

 
A block of four, blue tinted self portraits, by Andy Warhol

Open Studio: James Warhola

Sat, Feb 9, 2019

 
A parent and child look at Warhol's Mao paintings

Family Tours: Warhol’s Figures

Sat, Jan 26, 2019
10:45 am, 11:45 am, 12:45 pm

 
Portrait of Debbie Harry.

Open Studio: Figure Drawing for Families

Sat, Jan 26, 2019

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Child's drawing of a model.

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