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FREE GUIDE – HOW TO LOOK AT ART SLOWLY
Sign up with your email address to receive my new 17-page guide sharing 30+ different ways that you can look at art or objects in museums.
It can be used by anyone looking for new ways to engage with what they’re seeing.
SLOW LOOKING AT ART: THE VISIBLE THINKING APPROACH
Visible Thinking in the Museum (VTM) is an approach developed by Claire Bown over the last 12 years that provides a flexible structure around which to explore and discuss a wide variety of materials – in particular museum and heritage collections and their stories.
Slow Looking at Art: The Visible Thinking in the Museum Approach is a practical guide to implementing the approach and covers the 3 foundational elements plus the 8 practices associated with the method.
The book will be published in 2024 as an e-book and a print edition too!
The Ultimate Thinking Routine List
Sign up with your email address to receive your free handy resource with a list of 100+ thinking routines all in one place. Newly updated for 2023!
Thinking Routines for Observation
This free resource bundle includes cheatsheets for the following thinking routines that focus on observation and description:
- Looking Ten Times Two
- The Elaboration Game
- Yes, and..
- Colour Shape Line
- Nouns Verbs Adjectives
- Name Describe Act
- Slow Complexity Capture
- Memory Draw
- Parts Purposes Complexities
Perspective-Taking Cheatsheets
If you are leading any type of programme with groups around art or objects, then you need to have a perspective-taking thinking routine in your repertoire.
This free resource includes cheatsheets for the following thinking routines:
- Step Inside
- Point of View
- Step In Step Out Step Back
- Gaining New Perspectives
- 3 Y’s
- Circle of Viewpoints
Latest Podcast Episodes
I publish a new podcast episode and blog every fortnight on all aspects of engaging your audience with art and ideas – from Visible Thinking in the Museum techniques and ideas, to helping you to develop your questioning or facilitation skills and new tools to experiment with.