We just gathered museums from around the world and had a great roundtable discussion about how to run a virtual Slow Art Day amidst this Covid-19 crisis. Watch the discussion below: Or, you can also read a summary of some…
The Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA combined looking, drawing, and shared discussion for their Slow Art Day 2019. The museum chose a single artwork in their current exhibition Tschabalala Self as a focus. Each person then participated in three…
AX, the Arts and Culture Centre of Sussex in New Brunswick, Canada, held a multi-sensory Slow Art Day 2019 led by artist Deanna Musgrave, who had recently researched and written her Master’s thesis on multi-sensory art experiences. Musgrave, whose own…
Asia Kuzmiczow, the Artist Manager at Beeldend Gesproken in Amsterdam, designed a wonderful (and sold out) Slow Art Day 2019. She and her team decided to focus on one artwork for one full hour from the photo exhibition Different Perspectives.…
For Slow Art Day 2019, Michelle Nye, Manager of Gallery Programs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, brought in Claudia L’Amoreaux of Mindful Digital Life to lead the day. Nye selected selected 5 artists for the event: Apexer, Deladier Almedia, David…
I’ll be taking a brief pause in publishing the Slow Art Day 2019 reports from around the world (will resume on Friday, April 19). More great reports to come from: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art BOZAR/Centre of Fine Arts Brussels…
The Oceanside Museum of Art in California reports that they had a “wonderful” multi-sensory Slow Art Day 2019. The museum developed three self-guided stations aimed at slowly engaging multiple senses – designing multi-sensory experiences is a growing trend in the…
At the Ulster Museum, Slow Art Day 2019 guides took visitors through the works of Belfast-born artist Gerard Dillon, the British Vorticist movement, and then finished with a screening and discussion of a video art installation examining the political confusion…
According to the visitor experience team at Tate Modern, Slow Art Day 2019 was “fantastic.” They organized two one-hour slow looking sessions split between two artworks and, then, after the sessions, the team invited the visitors to come together for…
The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art focused on key pieces in the exhibit, The Rest of History, which explores groups (minorities, women, etc.) that have been underrepresented in history. Slow Art Day also coincided with Military Family Appreciation Day at…