Mindful Slow Art Day in Singapore
For their first Slow Art Day, the gallery ARTualize in Singapore, Singapore, organized a Mindfulness with Paintings session, encouraging participants to combine mindfulness with slow looking. On the 10th of April, ARTualize opened their two-hour session by introducing participants to…
Slow Art ‘Can Doers’: A British Museum Collaboration
For their first Slow Art Day, the British Museum, in London, UK, collaborated with the Can Do Project, a skills-development programme for people aged 16-35 with a disability or long-term health condition, run by the resendential care company Leonard Cheshire. The…
Slow Art Day in an 18th century building: Casa Regis
For their first Slow Art Day, Casa Regis, a non-profit association and centre for culture and contemporary art in Valdilana, Italy, featured local artists in a video and social-media-based event. On April 10, 2021, art photographer and founder of Casa…
Slow Art with Kandinsky at the Norton Simon Museum
For their 6th Slow Art Day, the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, designed a virtual slow looking event focused on the Russian painter Vassily Kandinsky’s painting Heavy Circles. On April 10, 2021, the museum posted Kandinsky’s artwork along with…
Looking, Writing, Making, and Mindfulness at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
On April 10, 2021, the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hosted both in-person and virtual sessions for their 7th Slow Art Day. For the in-person activity, visitors were first introduced to the concept of slow looking, and were…
St. Albert’s Slow Art Day Support
The Art Gallery of St. Albert, Canada, pivoted their 2021 event at the last minute from planned in-person sessions to their social media pages and the Gallery’s virtual exhibitions. They did this because four days before Slow Art Day 2021,…
Multi-lingual Slow Art Day at MO Museum
For their first Slow Art Day, the MO Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania, organized a free multi-lingual international event on Zoom as part of their MO Conversations program. On 10 April 2021, the museum hosted five conversation groups throughout the day…
Great Expectations at Vänersborg Art Gallery
For their first Slow Art Day, Vänersborg Art Gallery, in Vänersborg, Sweden, organized an in-person event featuring three artworks by artist Bo Ljung from the exhibition Lysande Utsikter (“Brilliant Views” or “Great Expectations”). On April 10, 2021, participants joined this…
Slow Art for Educators at the Smithsonian
For their second Slow Art Day, The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C., organized a virtual slow looking workshop specifically for art educators focused on the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849). The…
