Discussions and Workshops
Expand your perspective by joining our drop-in discussions, lively close-looking sessions, and artmaking workshops
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Shifting Poetics: A Poetry Workshop with Rhea Dillon. Photograph by Filip Wolak
Workshops
Learn more about art through materials and processes in workshops that focus on artmaking.
Art + you
A monthly series for 18-30-year-olds to talk about art and meet like-minded peers in a friendly and welcoming space.
Course participants look closely at artwork in the Sondra Gilman Study Center, 2017. Photograph by Filip Wolak
In-depth Courses
Gain a deeper understanding of current exhibitions through multi-part virtual courses, which feature discussions with curators and artists, behind-the-scenes perspectives, and the opportunity to ask questions.
A Museum educator leads a discussion about Henry Koerner's 1946 artwork, Mirror of Life, 2018. Photograph by Isabelle Dow
Crash Courses
In these intensive, single-session, virtual courses, noted experts provide an overview of key topics in modern and contemporary art.
Drop-in Discussion at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 2018. Photography by Filip Wolak
Drop-in Discussions
After seeing an exhibition at the Whitney, explore it further by joining one of the Whitney's Joan Tisch Teaching Fellows for an open discussion about the politics and ethics of representation. The Whitney is committed to fostering dialogue and debate in these monthly sessions.