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Family programs are designed to encourage children ages 4-12 and their parents or caregivers to observe, discuss, and explore art together while developing a sense of life-long experimentation, critical thinking, and creative expression. Participants have the opportunity to work directly with contemporary artists, Museum educators, and each other.
This season, we are pleased to invite families to experience the exhibition Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933.
Registration is required for all programs, and is now available online through the links below.
Cost: $10 for non-member families (Museum Admission is included). Member families enter free. Tickets can be purchased at the Museum Admissions Desk the day of the program.
Please plan to arrive 15 minutes before a program is scheduled to begin to check in. Programs will begin promptly at the scheduled time. If you are bringing a child younger than the ages listed for a specific program, please have one adult for each of those children.
For questions or for more information, email familyprograms@whitney.org, or leave a message on our hotline at 212-671-5300.
Recommended for children ages 5 to 12
Saturday October 25, 2008, 10am - 2pm
FREE for all families with children
Kids and their parents are invited to discover Calder’s Circus through hands-on performance, art-making activities, and live music.
Families will interact with contemporary artists Colin Gee and Corin Hewitt through traveling performances and an unusual installation. Kids and parents can march to a different tune with circus parade performances by the Hungry March Band throughout the day, and create their own art work to take home inspired by Calder's drawings and sculptures.
Register for Ninth Annual Free Family Day
For families with kids ages 4-5
Select Saturdays, 10:30am - 11:30am
Bring the kids and share an interactive experience of looking, sharing, wiggling and working together, all in the Museum galleries. Each month families will explore a different theme:
November: Lines and Lions: Calder's Animals (Saturday 11/8, 11/15, 11/22)
December: Push, Pull, and Spin: Sculptures in Motion (Saturday 12/6, 12/13)
For families with kids ages 6-10
Select Saturdays, 10:30am to 12:30pm and 1pm to 3pm
Families will create hands-on art projects inspired by interactive discussion and activities in the galleries.
Each month families will explore a different theme:
November: It's a Balancing Act: Moveable Sculptures (11/8, 11/15*, 11/22)
December: Hold That Pose: Figures and Caricatures (12/6*, 12/13)
*10:30 to 12:30 session only
Register for Family Fun Art Workshops
For families with kids ages 8-12
Select Saturdays, 1pm to 3pm
Our series of art workshops bring contemporary artists and families together to share their ideas and opinions, and create artwork inspired by conversations and activities in the Museum’s galleries. Parents and kids will participate in an art-making workshop led by the artist to explore materials and process together.
Tom Otterness - November 15, 1-3pm
Best known for his public sculptures and installation, Tom Otterness's work can be seen throughout New York City. You may have already seen his art in the subway stop at 14th Street and Eighth Avenue. Otterness shares Calder's interest in sculpture and performance by creating playful and sometimes humorous narratives with his own work. The artist will lead kids and parents in a gallery tour and art-making activity inspired by his own process as well as the exhibition.
Register for the Artist’s Choice Workshop with Tom Otterness
Check out how Tom makes his sculptures on his website
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy - December 6, 1-3pm
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy are artists who work in a variety of electronic media, including video, photographs, and computers. In the past, they have created dioramas of actual or imagined events, and used video and sound to create a narrative environment. Jennifer and Kevin will explore Calder's sculptures and installations with kids and parents through a gallery tour, and make connections to their own experience creating performative sculptures. The artists will then lead families in an art-making project related to their gallery experience.
Register for the Artist’s workshop with Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
See some of their work at the McCoys' website
For families with kids aged 6-10
Tuesdays in January
In conjunction with the Calder in Paris exhibition, the Whitney invites children aged 6-10 and one parent to participate in a four-week long after-school course. During the course, families will learn about Calder’s work and influences, spending time looking closely and talking about these intriguing and fun works of art. Inspired by what they have learned, they will explore sculptural principals such as balance, form, and space to create their own collaborative artworks. The course will take place after school in January.
Application forms and more information coming soon.