Courses and Workshops
Expand your perspectives through innovative courses, drop-in discussions, and artmaking workshops.
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Workshops
Learn more about art through materials and processes in workshops that focus on artmaking.
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.
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.
Crash Courses
In these intensive, single-session, virtual courses, noted experts provide an overview of key topics in modern and contemporary art.
Art History from Home
This series of free, virtual talks by Teaching Fellows highlights works in the Museum's collection to illuminate critical topics in American art from 1900 to the present. Each session is thirty-minutes long and involves a moderated virtual chat.
Past Courses and Workshops
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2019
Crash Courses on Contemporary Art: Jason Moran
Dec 4, 2019
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Performance As Sculpture / Sculpture As Performance
Nov 6, 2019
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Crash Courses on Contemporary Art: Whitney Biennial 2019
Select Wednesdays
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Inside the Whitney Biennial 2019
June 5, 2019
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If You Want to Know About Andy Warhol
Jan 30, 2019
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2018
Warhol in the Morning
Select Thursdays
8:30 AM–10:00 AM -
Pop in the Studio: Looking at Artistic Technique
Nov 1, 8, 15, 2018
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Media Crazy: New and Old Technologies in Contemporary Art
Oct 4, 11, 18, 2018
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Crash Course on Contemporary Art: Painting’s Environments
May 19, 2018
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Crash Course on Contemporary Art: The Moving Image, Between Documentation and the Imaginary
May 12, 2018
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Crash Course on Contemporary Art: The Politics of Performance
May 5, 2018
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Taking Pictures
Apr 11, 2018
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How to Look: Prints and Drawings
Mar 1, 2018
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Art as Activism, Activism as Art
Jan 24, 2018
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2017
Painting Today
Nov 1, 2017
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Work in Progress: Calder and Performance
October 5, 12, 19
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Crash Courses on Contemporary Art
May 6, 2017
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Protest Banner Lending Library with Aram Han Sifuentes and Cauleen Smith
Apr 7, 2017
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Inside Whitney Biennial 2017
Apr 5, 2017
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Decade in Focus: Painting in the 1980s
Feb 8, 2017
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How to Look: Prints and Drawings
Jan 19, 2017
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2016
How to Look: Portraiture
Nov 29, 2016
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Beyond the Visible: Photography and the Moving Image
Oct 19, 2016
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Performing Identity: Place, Space, and the Body in portraiture
June 8, 2016
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Why Contemporary Art Matters: Politics and Aesthetics Today
Feb 18, 2016
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How to Look: Abstraction
Jan 13, 2016
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2015
“What You See Is What You See”: Frank Stella
Nov 5, 2015
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Crash Courses on Contemporary Art
Oct 17, 2015
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Jazz Age Modernism: Archibald Motley in Context
Oct 15, 2015
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Summer 2015 Course:
How to LookJune 8, 2015
Questions
Please email us at courses@whitney.org.