This week our facebook submitted artists were inspired by miniature craft. When your artwork is the scale of a cigar box the extra attention to detail provided by slow looking is a necessary pursuit!
See more works, large and small here.
– Karen
This week our tumblr Thursday artist submission feature has rounded up some great works including grown crystal sculptures to crystalline lilies!
See more dazzling works every day, all day, here.
– Karen
Regine Ramseier
Regine Ramseier has transformed her studio into an ephemeral display of nature. This effect is created through dangling 2,000 dandelions from her ceiling.
See more naturally inspiring works here on our facebook page!
-Karen
Lately the tumblr-sphere has been abuzz with this Anya Gallaccio installation we posted on our tumblr.
Put your busy life on pause and take a moment to view Red on Green: the life and death of 10,000 roses, and other attention-grabbing works here.
– Karen
John Singleton Copley, A Boy with a Flying Squirrel, 1765
What this exercise shows students is that just because you have looked at something doesn’t mean that you have seen it. Just because something is available instantly to vision does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness. Or, in slightly more general terms: access is not synonymous with learning. What turns access into learning is time and strategic patience. (via)
Jennifer L. Roberts, a Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, talks in detail about how she uses slow looking in and outside of her classroom. To read more, especially about her three hour slow looking exercise in front of Copley’s painting, click here.
– Karen
Another reason to look forward to Fridays.
Each Friday our facebook page sheds light on new artists’ work straight from the facebook art community.
If you want to see the newest works from up and coming artists, look no further than our facebook page.
– Karen
Each Thursday our social media team’s excitement is practically palpable, if not discernibly visible!
This excitement stems from the opportunity presented to our dedicated team members: selecting talented artists to showcase for our growing community of slow looking art aficionados — challenge readily accepted.
Submit your own original artwork or learn more about tumblr Thursdays here.
– Karen
Keep your nose to the ground and you might miss out on this delightful public art installation by Kurt Perschke! The RedBall Project travels to different urban locations with the purpose of encouraging the public to interact and re-imagine their cities.
Waiting with anticipation for the RedBall Project to come to your hometown? Practice your slow looking skills by taking in the already marvelous sights gone unseen around you.
Don’t forget to supplement your new discoveries with our double-take worthy featured artworks on our facebook page!
– Karen
This mirrored sculpture by Arran Gregory may depict a lone wolf, but this alpha dog is certainly not lonely!
Discover the good company Gregory’s wolf is keeping on our tumblr here.
-Karen
Sam Durant wants to help you redefine the museum.
Through this interactive online project, What #isamuseum?, the artist and 2013 Getty Artists Program Invitee uses crowd sourcing to explore the purpose and use of museums today. Durant mixes his own tongue-in-cheek musings with community submitted responses with the succinct control of a well worded tweet.
Durant uses social media channels in a way akin to Slow Art Day’s own use: to further discourse and broaden reach.
Why don’t we contribute to this fascinating project by sharing what every host and participant of Slow Art Day knows: that museums can be fun and for everyone by partaking in Slow Art Day!
Share your slow looking knowledge and explore further here.
– Karen