Free with admission to the Family Heritage Experience

Did you know that the average museum visitor spends just 21 seconds looking at a work of art? Let’s change that, together!

Within the Family Heritage Experience, several commissioned artworks explore themes of family, memory, and identity. On Slow Art Day, we invite you to pause, look again, and discover something new within each of these pieces.

10:00 AM – 6:00 PM: Self-Guided Slow Looking
Explore the use of color in two artworks located within our Jonathan “Dutch” Treat Gallery—Familial Bridges by Yuko Okabe and Sharing Our Family Heritage by Sisters In Stitches Joined By The Cloth. Choose a self-guided color prompt card and follow that color through both works. Where does it appear? How does it change? What might it reveal?

11:30 – 11:45 AM: Facilitated Slow Looking
Join a guided exploration of Fanfare for the Common Person by Fred H.C. Liang. Inspired by Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, this installation weaves together light, language, and symbolism to reflect on shared identity and collective legacy.

3:30 – 3:45 PM: Meditative Slow Looking
Experience a quieter, more contemplative session with Echoes of Our Heritage by Pamela Hersch. Through a meditative approach, visitors are invited to slow their breathing, settle their gaze, and reflect on the interplay of light and motion as memories and histories gently unfold across the Rotunda ceiling.

Slow Art Day is a global movement, launched in 2010, dedicated to helping people experience the joy of looking at and loving art. Today, it includes more than 1,500 events worldwide.