“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

Why Slow?

When people look slowly at a piece of art they make discoveries and personal connections. The most important discovery they make is that they can see and experience art without being an expert. And that's an exciting discovery. It unlocks passion and creativity and helps to create more art fans.

How can I participate?

One day each year – April 2, 2022 – people all over the world visit local museums and galleries to look at art slowly.

Pick five works of art at the AGO and visit them for 10 minutes each. That's it. Simple by design, the goal is to focus on the art and the art of seeing.

To help with slow looking, join Art Educator, Lauren Spring, on a close looking journey through expressionist and spiritual realms. Travel from post WWI Germany to Tuktuyaaqtuuq, Nunavut in the 1950s and take a deep look at works of art by German artist Käthe Kollwitz, British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor and Inuit sculptor Bill Nasogaluak, exploring themes of family, interconnectedness, limits, transformation and transcendence, and considering how and why artists aspire to represent the most complex human emotions and experiences.

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