For their first Slow Art Day, the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachussetts, invited visitors to look slowly at their collection “Framing the Domestic Sea: Photographs by Jeffery C. Becton.” Becton’s layered visual images feature the maritime world, and highlight contemporary environmental concerns.

The museum took a simple self-guided approach to their Slow Art Day, which is a great way for any museum or gallery to participate.

They designed a simple and attractive flyer with slow looking prompts (featured below – feel free to copy) and also set up a QR code that took visitors to a discussion about the exhibit by the artist and his wife.

We are glad to welcome the New Bedford Whaling Museum to the Slow Art Day movement and look forward to what they come up with for 2025.

-Johanna, Ashley, JJ, and Phyl

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