Slow Art Day Archives - McMaster Museum of Art https://museum.mcmaster.ca/tag/slow-art-day/ Sun, 14 Feb 2021 08:01:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cropped-mma_favicon_24bit_alt-32x32.png Slow Art Day Archives - McMaster Museum of Art https://museum.mcmaster.ca/tag/slow-art-day/ 32 32 Join us for virtual Slow Art Day on April 4 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/join-us-for-virtual-slow-art-day-on-april-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=join-us-for-virtual-slow-art-day-on-april-4 Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:00:39 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=11419 Join us on McMaster Museum of Art's Instagram for a Virtual Slow Art Day this Saturday, April 4.

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Join us on McMaster Museum of Art’s Instagram for a Virtual Slow Art Day this Saturday, April 4.

Date: Saturday, April 4th, 2020
Time: 12-2 PM
Where: Here on our @macmuseum Instagram feed and stories
No registration required, just hop on Instagram!

What is Slow Art Day?

Did you know that the average time spent viewing a work of art is only 7 seconds?  Slow Art Day is a worldwide movement to encourage slow looking and attempt to break down the barriers between the general public and the gallery setting.

In April every year, galleries and museums all over the world host Slow Art Day events where participants spend one hour pre-selected art works, followed by an open discussion about the art they’ve seen and how they’ve experienced it.    Due to the global COVID-19 situation, we’ve been challenged to rethink Slow Art Day for a virtual platform this year.  We’ll be rolling out images from our collection on the @macmuseum Instagram feed – join the discussion in the comments and on our stories!  The idea is that anyone can appreciate art and have something valuable to say about it, regardless of their level of knowledge about art or art history.

We look forward to “seeing” you Saturday!

This event is presented as part of the museum’s N. Gillian Cooper Education Programme.

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]]> Slow Art Day at the Museum is April 8 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/slow-art-day-museum-april-8-register-now/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slow-art-day-museum-april-8-register-now Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:21:27 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=8223 Join us for the fifth annual Slow Art Day at McMaster Museum of Art on Saturday April 8, from 12 to 3 PM. Look long at five works of art and discuss the experience over a free catered lunch.

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]]> Slow Art Day at McMaster Returns April 9: Register Now! https://museum.mcmaster.ca/slow-art-day-at-mcmaster-returns-april-9-register-now/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slow-art-day-at-mcmaster-returns-april-9-register-now Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:43:13 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=7176 Slow Art Day is a worldwide celebration of art that encourages people to look at art SLOWLY – and thereby experience art in a new way.

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]]> Slow Art Day @ MMA #2 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/slow-art-day-mma-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slow-art-day-mma-2 Thu, 01 May 2014 14:23:39 +0000 http://mcmastermuseum.wordpress.com/?p=4478 The second-annual Slow Art Day held at the McMaster Museum was a great success! We had a good turnout with many return guests from last year’s event. This year we looked at works chosen from the Margaret Watkins: Domestic Symphonies and Antiquities exhibits, as well as from the 2014 McMaster Studio Arts graduating show, Chiasmata.

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]]> Taking Time in Art and Life https://museum.mcmaster.ca/taking-time-in-art-and-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taking-time-in-art-and-life Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:12:48 +0000 http://mcmastermuseum.wordpress.com/?p=4365 Students in The Secret Life of Things in the Eighteenth Century were asked to select one work of art on display at the Museum and devote their attention to it for one hour. A full hour of looking! Painfully long? Perhaps. But, extraordinarily rewarding.

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]]> It’s back! Slow Art Day at McMaster https://museum.mcmaster.ca/its-back-slow-art-day-at-mcmaster/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-back-slow-art-day-at-mcmaster Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:21:00 +0000 http://mcmastermuseum.wordpress.com/?p=4341 Volunteer Rachel Tirone brought Slow Art Day activities to the McMaster Museum of Art for the first time in 2013, and it was such a success she’s doing it again!

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]]> Slow Art Day: “Eye Opening” Event https://museum.mcmaster.ca/slow-art-day-eye-opening-event/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slow-art-day-eye-opening-event Thu, 02 May 2013 23:27:08 +0000 http://mcmastermuseum.wordpress.com/?p=3807 Saturday’s Slow Art Day event at the MMA was a huge success! Slow Art Day is a volunteer run event, designed to break down the barriers between art and the public by showing participants that anyone can appreciate art – you don’t have to be an expert!

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