Slow Art Day

Event Description

Slow Art Day is a global event with a simple mission: help more people discover for themselves the joy of looking at and loving art. 

Why Slow?

When people look slowly at pieces of art they make discoveries. The most important discovery they make is that they can see and experience art without an expert (or expertise). That is an exciting discovery. It unlocks passion and creativity and helps to create more art lovers. 

One day each year people all over the world visit local museums and galleries to look at art slowly. Participants look at select works of art for 10 minutes each and then meet with a docent to talk about their experience. That's it. Simple by design, the goal is to focus on the art and the art of seeing. 

Slow Art Day is free for MOAS members and is included with paid museum admission. 

Museum of Arts & Sciences

On April 8th from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., a MOAS docent will be stationed in the Karshan Center of Graphic Art to discuss the following two paintings pictured below which are part of the Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints exhibit, on loan from Syracuse University Art Museum. Feel free to stop by these paintings during this hour and look slowly. 

Leonard Baskin, Tobias and the Angel, 1958

Robert Rauschenberg, Signs

Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art

On April 8th from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., a MOAS docent will be stationed in the France Family Gallery that currently hosts the Florida Weather exhibit and the A. Worley Brown & Family Gallery that currently hosts the Views of St. Augustine - 100 years exhibit, to discuss the following painting listed below. We invite you to stop by during your visit to view this painting slowly. You might be surprised by the discoveries you could make by taking the time to look slowly. 

Anthony Thieme, "St. George Street in the Rain, St. Augustine, Fla."

Anthony Thieme, Loquat Tree