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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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
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2014
Art In the Age of Koons
Sept 18, 2014
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Fall 2014 Course: How to Look
Sept 10, 2014
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Inside the Whitney Biennial
Apr 3, 2014
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2013
Between Bodies and Objects: Performance in Contemporary Art
Oct 17, 2013
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Insiders/Outsiders
Feb 28, 2013
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2012
Painting Now
Oct 18, 2012
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Inside the Whitney Biennial
Mar 8, 2012
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2011
Artists’ Communities
Oct 13, 2011
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Trade School at the Whitney: Coincidence of Wants
Mar 25, 2011
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2010
Inside Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time
Nov 3, 2010
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Beyond the Artist’s Hand: Contemporary Art Methods and Practices
Oct 7, 2010
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Inside 2010, the Whitney Biennial
Mar 11, 2010
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2009
American Abstract Art: O’Keeffe to the Present
Oct 1, 2009
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American Abstract Art: O’Keeffe to the Present
Sept 15, 2009
Questions
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