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Students participating in our workshops gain technical, conceptual, and professional development from working directly with professional artists toward the realization of the many dimensions of a WHOOP DEE DOO production: community outreach, site-specific installation, materials, processes, performance and documentation.

Our students play a principal role in every aspect of the project. Individual and group assignments are created that make the students actively responsible for many of the major components of the project from community research, materials and processes, to fabrication. Each WDD project varies in scope and scale, and new project elements and assignments are created specifically for individual students. 

Upon the completion of a WDD project, our students have worked to facilitate creative collaboration with varied artists and performers within their community, conceptualized and fabricated site-specific installation, and participated in the exhibition and public promotion of a final performance. Upon a project’s end, our students leave with a profound sense of artistic ownership and camaraderie.

Past programming partners have included SFMOMA, The Knockdown Center, The Museum of Art & Design, Art21, The High Line, The Museum of Modern Art, The Smart Museum, Abrons Arts Center, DHC/ART, and Verge Center for Arts & Culture among others. Whoop Dee Doo has been featured in Art in America, Artforum, Vice, Rhizome, Artsy, and Hyperallergic, and is a featured artist project in ART21's documentary series New York Close Up.

“We invited WHOOP DEE DOO to work with teachers in the Art21 Educators program during our annual summer institute and they absolutely exceeded our expectations. Not only did WHOOP DEE DOO involve EVERYONE in the process, but they also allowed teachers to own the process and add ideas along the way. WHOOP DEE DOO is definitely one of the most exciting artists we have worked with in the Art21 Educators program since we began in 2009.”
Joe Fusaro, Senior Education Advisor, Art21, New York, NY