Grand Rapids Art Museum
101 Monroe Center
Grand Rapids MI 49503
Please join us for Slow Art Day at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, presented by ArtPrize.
Slow Art Day is a global event happening on April 17. It's all volunteer-run, where hosts invite participants to visit their local art museum and look at just a few select works. Viewers spend time with each work--at least ten minutes--then meet for lunch afterward to talk about the experience. By devoting time to a small number of works, participants leave feeling energized by the experience, with a renewed appreciation for art in their city, and the institutions housing it.
47 cities are signed up for Slow Art Day 2010, from Sao Paulo to Birmingham.
Participants go to the Grand Rapids Art Museum on their own at 11:00AM (there is an $8 admission fee). Then, meet up for lunch at 1:00PM at the GRAM Café for discussion. Participants buy their own lunch. (Download the menu)
Grand Rapids Art Museum
101 Monroe Center
Saturday, April 17 11:00AM to 2:30PM
RSVP here. We'll meet for lunch at 1:00PM in the GRAM Café. A list of the five works to view will be available on site.
Participants will spend time with the following five works from the permanent collection. Each is located on the third floor.
- William Merritt Chase, The Opera Cloak (Gallery 3)
- Richard Diebenkorn, Ingleside (Gallery 4)
- Oscar Kokoschka, Vienna, View from Liebharstal I (Gallery 6)
- Joan Mitchell, The River (Gallery 7)
- Lewis Luman Cross, Bird's Eye View of Passenger Pigeons Nesting (Gallery 2)
ArtPrize + Slow Art Day
ArtPrize and Slow Art Day share a similar goal, but accomplish it in very different ways. When we met the founders of Slow Art Day, we wanted it to happen in Grand Rapids, so we decided to host and promote the event. In some ways, we're opposites, which we find really interesting. Slow Art asks you to devote a lot of time to each work, while ArtPrize challenges participants to sort through over a thousand works in a short period of time. ArtPrize pushes production of new work, Slow Art appreciates existing work in museum collections. ArtPrize turns the city into an art gallery, Slow Art requires participants to patronize (and in a small way, fund) existing art institutions. Join us at the museum, take a deep breath, slow down, and enjoy some art.
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