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…
My name is Naomi Billingsley and I’ll be running a Slow Art Day at Chichester Cathedral and the Bishop’s Palace in Chichester, England. I work at the Bishop’s Palace in role created last year as Bishop Otter Scholar. The post…
Three-time Slow Art Day host museum, the di Rosa in Napa, California, just sent this report on their event this year. The most exciting part of this update is that they are considering adding a monthly Slow Art session to their…
Slow Art Day 2015 was a great success. On Saturday, April 11, 2015, we had 200+ venues around the world – from Shanghai to Ghana, from Paris to Brooklyn, from a site in Russia to the Birmingham Museum of Art in…
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina. When Ann Grimaldi, curator of education at the Weatherspoon Art Museum and one of our 2015 global hosts, learned about Slow Art Day a few years ago, she liked its simplicity, its focus on…