Co-sponsored by the Whitney Museum and Westbeth Artists Residents Council

Please join the Whitney Museum of American Art, Westbeth Artists Residents Council, and Village Preservation for a community event celebrating the capstone presentation from the 2024/25 artist participants of the Whitney’s Independent Study Program (ISP) at Westbeth Gallery.

Founded in 1968, the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program is an experimental study community dedicated to fostering critical thinking, cross-disciplinary scholarship, and multimedia artistic practices. The ISP cultivates a rigorous intellectual environment where Participants are encouraged to engage deeply with contemporary issues through extended conversation and collaboration. Through seminars, reading groups, workshops, screenings, performances, poetry readings, studio visits, and an array of collaborative endeavors, the program nurtures and challenges the creative processes of artists, curators, and scholars who are committed to innovative, sustainable, and activist practices.  This capstone exhibition presents the participants’ work at the ISP and reflects the topics contemporary artists are grappling with today. 

Held in collaboration with Westbeth and the Whitney Museum, this event offers special additional public hours to welcome West Village neighbors to view the ISP’s studio exhibition, Prototype, at Westbeth Gallery. Light refreshments will be offered on a first come first served basis.