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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Family making art in Open Studio, December 2018. Photograph by Filip Wolak.
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, Dec 14
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.
Families sketching in the galleries, September 2016. Photograph by Filip Wolak.
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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Fri,
Dec 6
Free Pop-Up Dance Classes With Ailey Extension
6 pm
Open to all ages
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Free Friday Nights Artmaking
6:30–9:30 pm
Open to all ages
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Sun,
Dec 8
Story Time with NYPL in the Gallery
11 am
Open to all ages
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Drawing in the Grove
11 am–2 pm
For all ages
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Drawing Game
11 am–4 pm
Open for all ages
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Drawing Dance
11 am–3 pm
Open for all ages
Family Event Archive
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2018
Open Studio
Saturdays and Sundays
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Open Studio: Nick Mauss
Apr 28, 2018
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Family Fun: People In Art
Apr 21, 2018
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Family Tours
Select Saturdays
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Stroller Tours: Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960
Apr 21, 2018
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Open Studio
Saturdays and Sundays
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Family Fun: Rural America!
Mar 24, 2018
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Tours for Immigrant Families
Mar 17, 2018
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Stroller Tours: Zoe Leonard: Survey
Mar 17, 2018
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Open Studio
Saturdays and Sundays
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Family Tours
Select Saturdays
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Open Studio: Grant Wood
Mar 3, 4
10:30 am–3 pm -
Open Studio: Sibyl Kempson
Feb 24, 2018
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Family Tours
Select Saturdays
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Family Fun: Artist as Storyteller
Feb 10, 2018
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Open Studio: Tom Carpenter
Feb 10, 2018
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Stroller Tour:
An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017
Feb 10, 2018
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Open Studio
Feb 4, 2018
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Open Studio: The Furniture of Home
Jan 27, 2018
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Family Tours
Select Saturdays
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Family Fun: Unexpected Painting!
Jan 13, 2018
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Stroller Tour: Laura Owens
Jan 13, 2018
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Open Studio
Saturdays and Sundays
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2017
Open Studio: Collaborative Collages
Dec 16, 2017
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Gallery Explorations!
Select Saturdays
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Open Studio: Laura Owens
Dec 9, 2017
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Stroller Tour:
Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the WorldDec 9, 2017
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Open Studio
Saturdays and Sundays
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Family Fun: For Families with Kids on the Autism Spectrum
Dec 2, 2017
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Stroller Tour:
Where We AreNov 18, 2017