The Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD, will participate as a venue for Slow Art Day on April 11, 2015, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. One day each year, people all over the world visit local museums and galleries to look at art slowly. Simple by design, the goal is to focus on the art and the art of seeing. Since its beginning in 2009, the number of venues has continued to grow.
On Slow Art Day, the Museum will focus on engaging visitors with physical works of art – how paintings, sculptures, photographs, and other media are perceived, considered, and experienced by the viewer. In this digital age, museums are increasingly trying to deliver “snackable” digital content – short bursts of entertaining and enlightening information delivered through social media initiatives or interactive installations. The question is: Can museums offer an immersive, engaging digital experience that avoids superficiality and truly deepens the visitor’s experience of a work of art without relying on gimmicks?
Artist and Academy Art Museum volunteer host Carol Cathcart will lead the Museum’s Slow Art Day. Carol and the Museum’s Curator, Anke Van Wagenberg, have selected five artworks from the Permanent Collection to be considered. Participants are encouraged to come to the Museum on Slow Art Day and look at five pieces of art slowly; take part in a group discussion about the works; and afterwards, continue their experience over lunch in a local venue or at the Museum with a brown bag lunch.
The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. For further information or to register, contact Anke Van Wagenberg at the Academy Art Museum at 410-822-2787.
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