Join Kelly Campbell in the SAAC galleries on Saturday, April 12, 11am-1pm to participate in the worldwide movement known as Slow Art Day, then meet at 1:15pm at Laredo Grill to discuss the experience. Here’s how it works: SAAC has selected five pieces of art from the Membeship Showcase. Participants meet at SAAC and examine them for five to ten minutes each, and then meet to discuss their impressions over lunch.
Slow Art Day creator, Phil Terry, the CEO of Creative Good, had no particular interest in art. “My
wife kept dragging me to museums,” he says. “I didn’t know how to look at art. Like most people, I would walk by quickly.”
After studying Hans Hoffman’s “Fantasia”, Terry wanted to share the experience of slowly ingesting artworks with other art-world outsiders, so he started an annual event called Slow Art Day. According to one study published in the journal Empirical Studies of the Arts, museumgoers spend an average of just 17 seconds looking at an individual painting—and that statistic might be generous. “People usually go to a museum, see as much as they can, get exhausted, and don’t return,” Terry says. “Slow Art Day energizes people.”
“I work behind the scenes to create the community of hosts and spread the word,” Terry says of his role as orchestrator of the event.
Slow Art Day at SAAC is free, but participants pay for their own lunch.
