Slow Art Day
When: Saturday, April 11, 2026
Slow Art Day is April 11th, 2025, and the Yellowstone Art Museum looks forward to welcoming museum goers for a day of special programming as one of the 146 global host venues.
Slow down, reflect, discover, and engage with the Yellowstone Art Museum. Join us for a day of slow looking in the galleries, focusing on deep observation and mindful presence. We are thrilled to participate as a venue for this global art movement that challenges the typical museum-going experience.
Since its inception in 2008, Slow Art Day has encouraged museum and gallery visitors to engage with a few artworks at a deliberate pace. Most visitors typically engage with a piece for less than thirty seconds while visiting a museum. By slowing down, more personal connections can be made with a work of art, and it can encourage better conversations surrounding the work.
Slow Flow Yoga at 10 am with Sarah Brown, followed by a slow-looking guided tour of current exhibitions. (Suggested donation $5) Sarah Brown has taught yoga in Billings for two decades. She currently teaches at the Billings Family YMCA and at Montana State University Billings. She leads classes that focus on alignment and connection from a place of authenticity and joy. Sarah also hosts Field Days on Yellowstone Public Radio and has worked at newspapers and magazines nationwide.
Slow Art Writing Stroll at 11 am with poet, writer, and content strategist Anne Holub in The Montana Gallery for a guided stroll through Embedded in the Overlap. What words will this inspire? Anne Holub, originally from Virginia, and after more than a decade in Chicago, now lives and writes in Billings, Montana, with her husband Dan, their two dogs Merle and Rosie, and a sourdough starter named Rhonda.
Guided Meditation in the Murdock, 1 pm with Rain Soul Studio, followed by another chance to take a slow looking guided tour of current exhibitions.
It is our intention to build environments of creative discourse, provide a platform for individuals to feel seen, heard, and included, hold spaces for mindfulness and healing, guide others to feel more connected with their bodymind, instill confidence and stoke potential, develop self-agency, self-esteem, support authenticity and reclamation towards a new narrative, create more awareness and learning around individualized wellness practices, problem solve creative solutions that meet individuals where they are at, offer resources to create space between patterns and reactions, cultivate self-advocacy for a sense of well-being and contentment in our time. — Mike & Krista, Rain Soul Studio
Self-guided activities will be available throughout the day.
Ravens Cafe open for Lunch!
Learn more about Slow Art Day.
