Slow Art Day 2025 on the Platteville Community Arboretum Trail

Name: Slow Art Day 2025 on the Platteville Community Arboretum Trail
Start: 2025-04-05T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-05T14:30:00-05:00
Location: Platteville Dog Park

Schedule

Sat Apr 05 2025 at 01:00 pm to 02:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Platteville Dog Park | Platteville, WI

Rountree Gallery presents Slow Art Day on Saturday, April 5, 2025 from 1-2:30. This is the 5th annual global Slow Art Day event hosted by the Rountree Gallery, and this year it is hosted along the Platteville Community Arboretum (PCA) Trail.
Join Rountree Gallery Volunteer Heidi Dyas-McBeth for an Outdoor Slow Art Day. Taking cues from other galleries around the world Heidi choose to utilize a few sculptural pieces of art along the PCA trail.
Advance registration is not required and participants are asked to meet Heidi on the PCA Trail near the Dog Park which is located at the corner of Mineral St and Valley Rd. There are parking areas at the Dog Park and across Mineral Street from the Dog Park. Event is anticipated to take approx. an hour and participants are encouraged to dress appropriately for the weather and bring along water, hats if sunny, and a folding lawn chair if standing for that length of time will be difficult. In the event that we have rain, the event will be moved to the Rountree Gallery at 120 W Main St, this change would be posted on Facebook.
Heidi will lead participants for a short walk along the PCA trail beginning at Farm Report and ending with 4,200 Stones. Participants will receive a slow looking guide with prompts to consider as they spend time with each work of art. There is time built in at the end for a short discussion period to share participant’s responses to the exercise.
Slow Art Day is an international campaign to encourage individuals to get more out of viewing art. On average people spend 15-30 seconds viewing a piece of art in a gallery – this is an opportunity to participate in activities designed to slow us down and to explore what it means to view and consider artwork.
The sculptures to be considered were created by Local Artists, two by Bill Mitchell of Lancaster and one by Carole Spelic of Mineral Point.