Check Instagram for all the amazing photos coming in from around the world for Slow Art Day 2016 – In the meantime, Slow Art Day Shanghai just reported via email (Instagram is not available in China): We had a wonderful…
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…
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…
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…
On March 22 and 23, Slow Art Day founder Phil Terry led conversations with our far-flung hosts. If you missed the conference calls — or want to refresh your memory — we have recordings! To listen to the March 22…
There may be as many Slow Art Day formats as there are Slow Art Day hosts. Here’s what Megan Bannister has planned: “For our second annual Slow Art Day celebration, the Des Moines (Iowa) Art Center will host a series…
For the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan, Alabama, Slow Art Day came at what many hosts consider an impossible time. The Wiregrass sees it as an opportunity. Art educator Leah Lapszynski explains: This year for Slow Art Day at…
Slow Art Day host Maria Gil Ulldemolins is a Spanish painter living and working in Brussels. When she told us she planned two sessions of art-based mindfulness, we said, please tell us more! And she did: For my very first…
Demetria Verduci, one of our veteran Italian hosts, has organized her Slow Art Day this year to include a marvelous tribute to our trademark symbol, the turtle. Demetria is director of La Macina di San Cresci, an artists’ residence program…
A few excerpts from the Reno Gazette-Journal article published Feb. 23 by Amanda Horn of the Nevada Museum of Art: “In 2008, an admitted art-appreciating novice conducted an experiment. As he strolled with his wife through the Jewish Museum in…