Families
Whitney family programs offer artmaking workshops, special events and tours, in-gallery activity guides, and at home artmaking challenges that encourage kids and adults to learn about art together.
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Open Studio
On Saturdays, families with kids of all ages are invited to get creative at the Whitney! Join us to make your own art inspired by works on view in the collection and current exhibitions. Each week we offer a different artmaking project.
Next event
Sat, Oct 19
Family Tours
Join us for short, interactive family tours of kid-friendly works on view! Learn about art together through lively discussion and fun gallery activities. Family tours are offered on select Saturdays in both Spanish and English. Check the calendar for tour times.
Art Challenge at Home
Want to inspire the young artists in your family? Take on these art projects designed especially for kids and grown-ups to do together at home.
Activity Guides
Explore the galleries with kid-friendly activity guides in English and Spanish. Print the guide at home or pick one up at the Whitney. Each guide is filled with activities that will prompt you and your child to look, think, and wonder together.
Recorridos Familiares
Invitamos a las familias de habla hispana y a sus infancias de cinco años o más, a que recorran las salas del museo junto al personal docente del Whitney, y participen en divertidas actividades grupales de creación artística. Quédense después de la visita guiada para crear arte en nuestro programa Open Studio para familias con infancias de todas las edades.
Free Second Sundays
Admission to the Whitney is free all day on the second Sunday of every month. Visitors of all ages enjoy artmaking, activities, tours, classes, and other special events that celebrate Whitney exhibitions and community events.
Upcoming Family Events
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Sat,
Oct 19Open Studio
11 am–3 pm
Families with kids of all ages
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Revelations Interactive Assembly For Families
12–1 pm
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Revelations Interactive Assembly For Families
2–3 pm
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Sat,
Oct 26Open Studio
11 am–3 pm
Families with kids of all ages
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Surreal Family Halloween
11 am–3 pm
Open to families with kids of all ages
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Sat,
Nov 2Open Studio
11 am–3 pm
Families with kids of all ages
Family Event Archive
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2024
Xavier Riddle meets Alvin Ailey: Screening and Drawing Session with Christopher Eliopoulos
Oct 13, 2024
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Dancing in the Street: With Ailey Extension
Oct 13, 2024
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Drawing Dance: Ailey-Inspired Live Figure Drawing
Oct 13, 2024
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Music to Dance To: Music that Inspired Alvin Ailey with Jazz at Lincoln Center
Oct 13, 2024
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Drawing in the Grove
Oct 13, 2024
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All Ages Artmaking: Art in Motion
Oct 13, 2024
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Ailey Revelations Dance Celebration with the Whitney
Sept 8, 2024
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Recorridos Familiares
Sept 8, 2024
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Slow Down and Sketch: Still Life from Nature
Sept 8, 2024
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Story Time with NYPL in the Gallery
Aug 11, 2024
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Artmaking with Eamon Ore-Giron
Aug 11, 2024
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Artmaking: Magnetic Mosaic
Aug 11, 2024
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Open Studio: JJJJJerome Ellis
July 27, 2024
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents: The Charles Turner Quintet
July 14, 2024
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Artmaking and Storytelling
July 14, 2024
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Artmaking Inspired by Wanda Gág
July 14, 2024
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Disability Pride, Disability Joy Exist Artmaking Workshop
July 13, 2024
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Soft Sculptures for Hard Politics with Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio
June 22, 2024
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Whitney Community Pride Mural
June 9, 2024
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Imaginary Inventions Inspired by Pippa Garner
June 9, 2024
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Open Studio: Clarissa Tossin
June 1, 2024
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Floral Still Life Drawing
May 12, 2024
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Sculptural Assemblage with Ser Serpas
May 12, 2024
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Open Studio
Select Saturdays
11 am–3 pm -
Story time with NYPL
Second Sundays
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All-ages Artmaking Inspired by Biennial Artist Eamon Ore-Giron
Apr 14, 2024
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All-ages Artmaking Inspired by Wanda Gág
Apr 14, 2024
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Families
Make Art with AARON and CENTOMar 10, 2024
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Story Time with NYPL
Mar 10, 2024
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Artmaking with Dyani White Hawk
Feb 11, 2024