CHILDREN, TEENS & FAMILIES
CREATE [sonja’s note: let’s go over this list together - if not a WR partner/ artist/ educator etc, then let’s remove… it’s possible this could be folded into the WR LESSONS page where we’re intent to expand]
Whitney Families Art Challenge
These art projects are designed especially for kids and grown-ups to do together. All of the activities are based on works of art in the Whitney's collection.
Studio Museum in Harlem: Do-it-Yourself
Inspired by artwork in the museum’s permanent collection, this selection of D.I.Y.’s allows you to create masterpieces and participate in existing art traditions.
New Museum Kids Menu: The Faces of Places
New Museum Kids Menu provides families with activities to learn about contemporary art and ideas at home. Jordan Casteel’s 2017 series “Nights of Harlem” inspires this activity, which focuses on remembering and acknowledging places, people, and labors of care that make up our communities.
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Whitney From Home: Artmaking From Home
Experiment with ordinary materials in new and creative ways with these online artmaking events designed for all ages. Each project explores artworks from the Whitney’s collection and invites participants to consider the relationship between artmaking and our domestic spaces. All events in this series are live, thirty-minute sessions taught by a Whitney educator.
Printed Matter Do It Yourself / Do It Together: Bookmaking Workshops
In lieu of Printed Matter / St Marks’ monthly bookmaking workshops, they are launching a regular series of online bookmaking tutorials led by Printed Matter staff Chang Yuchen, an artist, experienced bookmaker, and co-author of Book Book / 书书.
François Ghebaly: The Cultivation Syllabus: How to Make a Poem of the Moment by Kelly Akashi
Kelly Akashi’s step-by-step guide to creating a poem from newspaper clippings and headlines.
TOOLS
Free WiFi for K-12 and College Students
Charter is offering free Spectrum broadband and Wi-Fi access for 60 days to households with K-12 and/or college students who do not already have a Spectrum broadband subscription. New student households don’t have to pay installation fees. To enroll, call Spectrum at (844)-488-8395.
Free Internet for Students: 7 Providers Offering Support
This article lists the companies and school districts providing free or discounted internet options for students.
Free Remote Learning Devices
To help students stay connected during emergencies, the DOE is lending internet-enabled iPads to support remote learning for students. If you would like to request a device for a NYC student in your family, please fill out the form in the link.
Whitney Teacher Guides
Designed for educators to use as a resource in the classroom before and after a Museum visit, teacher guides provide information about selected artists and works of art, topics for classroom discussion, writing activities, and art projects that introduce the key ideas of an exhibition.
EduMate NYC Tutoring
A free virtual tutoring service connecting public school students with college-level tutors. For ages K–12.
Guggenheim Teaching Materials: Teaching Modern and Contemporary Asian Art
A teaching resource that features 27 artists in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s collection. The artists in this resource are from countries across East Asia and Southeast Asia, but many live and work between two or more cities around the world. Includes discussion questions, activity prompts, key terms, and maps.
LEARN
Virtual MOCA: Back to School
A digital family guide with activities to do at home, centered around MOCA’s exhibition, With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985.
Sesame Street
A hub filled with videos, playful learning activities, and ways to help families stay physically and mentally healthy.
Whitney Audio Guides for Kids
Explore select art exhibitions from the Whitney Museum with audio made especially for 6–10 year olds.
Whitney From Home: Online Lessons
Interactive online lessons engage students with works of art from the Whitney's collection though close looking exercises, guided discussions, and activities. These classes are taught by Museum educators via videoconferencing and are FREE for NYC Public Schools.
NYCDOE: Activities for Students
Grade-specific activities for learning at home. Includes suggested daily study schedules, guides and materials for instructional activities, recommended educational television shows, and links to a variety of books, magazines, and websites on a wide range of topics that appeal to children at all ages.
Guggenheim Kids Audio Guides
Hear from artists and museum curators about recent exhibitions and artworks in the Guggenheim’s collection.
READ
Audible Stories
Free Audible books for children.
Free E-Books for Children
Free downloaded books for children provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Free E-Books for Children
Free downloaded books for children provided by Bookbot.
E-books for High School Students provided by the New York Public Library
A selection of fiction and non-fiction books that align with Common Core Curriculum Standards. Grades 9–12. Download the app.
Free Books by Three Star Books & One Star Press
Download free PDFs of books by artists published by Three Star Books since 2000.
Storyline Online
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.
CHILDCARE & MOTHERHOOD
Workers Need Childcare
For parents who needs childcare while you work during the COVID-19 outbreak. Volunteers are here to help you find the safest, lowest-cost options for your family.
Nanno App
Nanno is the first national on-demand child care solution. It’s an app that allows parents to book vetted childcare providers, babysitters and nannies at the last minute.
Black Mamas Matter Alliance
Black Mamas Matter Alliance is a Black women-led cross-sectoral alliance. They center Black mamas to advocate, drive research, build power, and shift culture for Black maternal health, rights, and justice.
NATAL Stories
A new podcast docuseries about having a baby while Black, in partnership with BMMA.
Roots Community Birth Center
A Minnesota-based birthing center to make out-of-hospital birth accessible and welcoming for all families.
Mama Glow
Mama Glow delivers an array of offerings including doula services and trainings for women and families along the paths of fertility, pregnancy and new motherhood.