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, Sep 28
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,
Sept 28Open Studio
11 am–3 pm
Families with kids of all ages
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Sat,
Oct 5Open Studio
11 am–3 pm
Families with kids of all ages
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Sun,
Oct 13Dancing in the Street: With Ailey Extension
10:30 am
Open to all ages
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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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All Ages Artmaking: Art in Motion
11 am–4 pm
Open to all ages
Family Event Archive
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2020
Open Studio: Draw Your Veggies!
Jan 25, 2020
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Stroller Tour: Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019
Jan 25, 2020
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2019
Open Studio: Eve Mosher
Dec 7, 2019
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Stroller Tour: Rachel Harrison Life Hack
Nov 23, 2019
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Open Studio: Art This Way
Nov 9, 2019
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Jazz at Lincoln Center's Jazz for Young People Family Concert
Nov 2, 11:30 am and 1 pm
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Open Studio: Halloween
Oct 26, 10:30 am–3 pm
Oct 27, 10:30 am–3 pm -
Family Tours
Select Saturdays
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Cancelled: Stroller Tour: The Whitney's Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965
Sept 7, 2019
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Open Studio: Ilana Harris-Babou
Aug 24, 2019
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Open Studio: Marcus Fischer
Aug 10, 2019
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Family Tours
Select Saturdays
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Open Studio: Robert Bittenbender
July 27, 2019
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Stroller Tour: Whitney Biennial 2019
July 20, 2019
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Biennial Family Opening
June 22, 2019
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Cancelled: Family Fun: Explore Color!
Apr 20, 2019
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Open Studio: For Freedoms
Mar 16, 2019
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Family Fun: Warhol’s Experiments!
Mar 9, 2019
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Family Tours: Warhol’s Prints
Sat, Mar 2, 2019
10:45 am, 11:45 am, 12:45 pm -
Open Studio: Lower East Side Print Shop
Mar 2, 2019
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Family Fun: Warhol and Abstraction!
Feb 23, 2019
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Family Tours: Warhol's Drawings
Sat, Feb 9, 2019
10:45 am, 11:45 am, 12:45 pm -
Open Studio: James Warhola
Feb 9, 2019
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Family Tours: Warhol’s Figures
Sat, Jan 26, 2019
10:45 am, 11:45 am, 12:45 pm -
Open Studio: Figure Drawing for Families
Jan 26, 2019
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Family Fun: Warhol’s Portraits
Jan 19, 2019
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Stroller Tours: Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again
Select Saturdays
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2018
Family Fun: Warhol the Experimenter!
Dec 15, 2018
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Andy Warhol Family Day
Dec 1, 2018
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Family Tours: A Survey In Light
Sat, Nov 3, 2018
10:45 am, 11:45 am, 12:45 pm