NEW YORK.- This fall, the Whitney Museum of American Art has launched Learning@Whitney, a new educational website comprised of images, information, learning resources, and interactive tools for teachers, teens, children, families, Museum visitors, and anyone interested in art. The new website is the culmination of a project developed by the Whitney’s Education Department.

Learning@Whitney is located on the home page of the Whitney’s website www.whitney.org and at www.whitney.org/learning . The website is divided into three sections: one for teachers, one for kids, and one for teens. It provides multiple ways to explore key works of art in the Whitney’s collection and to use the images for teaching and learning. The website features:

• An online Gallery of works of art from the Whitney’s collection
• Collect Art, where site visitors can create their own collections of selected
images
• A Timeline from 1900-present with historical, cultural, and social
information related to the Gallery images
• A Research section with teaching materials , bibliography, web links, and
suggested ways to combine images and text

In Collect Art, site visitors can create their own collections of images from the gallery, add text and sound, and share their collections as a slideshow or print-out with teachers, students, family, or friends.

For teachers, Learning@Whitney offers a variety of ways to integrate visual art into the school curriculum, to expand their use of images in the classroom, and to use the Museum's collection of twentieth and twenty-first century art as a primary resource for teaching and learning. The Research section for teachers includes lessons, art making and writing activities, and a How To section that offers guidelines for keeping a sketchbook and using digital images. In Research, teachers can also visit a Professional Development section that provides information on the Museum's teaching methodology, and strategies to help teachers in all subject areas make concrete connections between the Whitney’s resources and the ways in which they design curriculum.

Learning@Whitney aims to build access to the Museum’s collection and to expand and enhance the Museum’s educational services by using works of art in the Whitney collection as a foundation for interaction and learning, and providing resources that can enrich and deepen the ways in which Museum audiences learn about works of art. Additional images and resources will be added to the website over time.