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Teaching Tips
Students on a guided tour at the Whitney are encouraged to slow down, take time to look closely at a work of art, and share their observations. Here are some tips and examples of questions that ...
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Rosemarie Beck 1923–2003
Rosemarie Beck (July 8, 1923 – July 15, 2003) was an American abstract expressionist, figurative expressionist painter in the post-World War II era. She was married to the writer and editor Robert ...
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Then/Now: How can a site-specific artwork enrich our appreciation of the environment?
69 Gansevoort Street, 1938. Photography by Sol Libsohn (1914-2001) for Federal Art Project. Museum of the City of New York. 43.131.6.180 Pier 52, North River, 1951. Irma and Paul Milstein Division of ...
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Teaching Tips
Whitney educators ask different types of open-ended questions to elicit varied responses to a work of art. Some questions ask students to look closely and focus their attention on the visual elements ...
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2015–2016 Teacher Exchange
Stacy is a visual arts teacher for grades six through nine at our partnership school, The Clinton School for Writers and Artists. Alex is an earth science and physics teacher for grades nine and ...
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Moving Messages
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s Trade Canoe for the North Pole is populated with images of palm trees, buffalo, and rubber ducks, among others, which ominously remind viewers of the effects of people's ...
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Dyani White Hawk 1976–
Dyani White Hawk (full name Dyani White Hawk Polk) (born 1976) is a contemporary artist and curator of Sicangu Lakota, German, and Welsh ancestry based out of Minnesota. From 2010 to 2015, White Hawk ...
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Emily Barker
Emily Barker was born in 1992 in San Diego, California, and grew up in Georgia where they studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They are an artist and model living in Los ...
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Lisa Alvarado
Lisa Alvarado is an artist and musical performer born in San Antonio, Texas, and based in Chicago. Alvarado studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is concerned with the ...
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2018–2019 Teacher Exchange
Clara is a high school History and Special Education teacher at The Clinton School. She is a graduate of Barnard College and holds a Master’s in Education from CUNY Hunter. Clara is in her third year ...
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2017–2018 Teacher Exchange
Iris is a high school Spanish teacher at Grace Church School. A native New Yorker and graduate of Teachers College, Iris has dedicated her career to working with youth in New York City's public ...