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Slow Art Day 2017 is Seven Months Away!

We’re starting the countdown to Slow Art Day 2017 – it’s just seven months away! 11 venues in the US, UK, France, and Belgium are leading the charge and are among our first hosts for 2017. We’re excited to welcome new…

It’s a Keeper!

A report from host and museum educator Nina Montijn in Amstelveen, Netherlands: We had a great Slow Art Day at the Cobra Museum for Modern Art! In three organized art walks, visitors were challenged to look slowly, to genuinely take…

A Spiritual Experience

In Chichester, England, Slow Art Day participants communed with five artworks in the cathedral and bishop’s palace. Host Naomi Billingsley, the Bishop Otter Scholar at Chichester Cathedral, writes in her blog: “Although the Slow Art Day initiative is secular in…

In Canberra – Speaking of Portraits

From Canberra, Australia, Annette Twyman of the National Portrait Gallery reports  “great success” on Slow Art Day: The participants, all strangers to one another, took their stools, floor plans and notebooks and headed into the gallery space.  After 15 minutes…

Being Part of the Picture in Skibbereen

At Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen, Ireland, a small, enthusiastic group celebrated Slow Art Day by becoming one with the art. They immersed themselves in the setting for performance artist Amanda Coogan’s durational work, Spit, Spit, Scrub, Scrub.…

Slow Time with Historic Murals

In Norwalk, Connecticut, participants in Slow Art Day will examine WPA murals in the city’s Maritime Aquarium. After close, leisurely looking at works by Alexander J. Rummler, docents from the Arts Commission will lead discussions of each. Norwalk has the…

A Slow Art Stroll at UMD

Once a year students at the University of Maryland take an ArtWalk, an event they created to showcase visual arts programming on campus. This year, the walk coincides with Slow Art Day — resulting in an all-day celebration with eight…

Developing the PPP

By Alison Bessesdotter The Banana Factory at ArtsQuest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, began hosting Slow Art Day four years ago. We have 25 resident artists on three floors and we share the common spaces to hang work outside our studios. On…

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