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Slow Art Day reaches over 200 venues!

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We’re excited to announce that Slow Art Day has reached a new milestone: over 200 venues have registered to host Slow Art Day 2013! As of this week, there are over 200 participating venues in 22 countries, 160 cities, and 5 continents. What started out as a grassroots movement has grown into a truly global initiative, and we want to take a moment to thank all of our dedicated volunteers, hosts, and participants for their help and support of Slow Art Day.

To help celebrate this accomplishment, we’ve planned some fun posts across our social media channels emphasizing the theme of growth. On our Tumblr, our weekly “Themed Thursday” series is focusing on growth with artworks like Gregory Euclide‘s Otherworldly: optical delusions and small realities, 2011.

Gregory Euclide, Otherworldly: optical delusions and small realities, 2011.

Gregory Euclide, Otherworldly: optical delusions and small realities, 2011.

On our Facebook, check out another growth-themed artwork by Rogan Brown, and keep your eyes peeled on our twitter for a special tweet congratulating our 200th venue!

Slow Art Day 2013 is just over a month away; how many venues do you think will register to host by April 27th? Let us know in the comments! There’s still plenty of time to sign up to host; click on the Be A Host tab at the top of the page to register.

Once again, thank you to everyone who has played a roll, small or large, in helping make Slow Art Day such a success!

Alie Cline
Social Media Manager

 

Slow Art Day makes the Tumblr Radar

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Today the tumblr staff selected a post from the Slow Art Day tumblr to be featured on their radar, a big honor! The work chosen was Maurice Sapiro’s “Gold on the Water.”

Maurice Sapiro, Gold on the Water, 2012

Check out the post on the Slow Art Day tumblr here, and see other works by Sapiro on his Saatchi Online profile.

– Alie Cline, Social Media Manager

Slow Art Day Selected as tumblr Editor

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Good news – yesterday, the tumblr staff named us to the editorship for the Art Tag.

What does this mean? It means we now have the ability to highlight and promote art from across the worldwide tumblr community.

We’re honored to join a great group of blogs that take part in this community sharing, and we look forward to growing our presence on tumblr through our editorship.

Thanks to the staff at tumblr for recognizing the Slow Art Day tumblr blog and providing us with this important opportunity.

Alie Cline
Slow Art Day Tumblr Manager

Raymond Jonson, Rock at Sea

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Raymond Jonson, Rock at Sea, 1920-22. Image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

The illustrative quality that Raymond Jonson gives this painting is fantastic; we love the stylized way he depicts the waves and the eerie moonlight seascape. This is a great piece to practice your Slow Art Day skills on. Take note of what you notice in the first minute of looking at this painting. Then continue to look at it for another two minutes – has your opinion of the work changed? What things did you notice that weren’t immediately apparent?

If you liked this practice piece, be sure to check out our Tumblr for other posts like this one!

Slow Art Day on Tumblr

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Did you know that in addition to our main site, Slow Art Day also has a tumblr page? Started just five days ago, we have already reached over 750 followers. In addition, the tumblr staff selected one of our posts to feature on the Tumblr Radar, a high honor for a blog that is less than a week old.

Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View by Cornelia Parker (1991)

Take a look, and let us know what you think!