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…
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…
Slow Art Day 2019 this year was celebrated in hundreds of museums and galleries from The Rubin Museum in NYC, to the Tate Modern in London, to a small museum in the rural Basque countryside, the Ur Mara Museoa. Elena…
Shanghai was one of the first Slow Art Day 2019 events to kickoff. We received their report at 4am NYC time (4pm Shanghai time). Joan Lueth, a longtime host and art teacher in Shanghai, said, “The work of artist Yang…