Mindful Eye, Playful Eye
101 Amazing Museum Activities for Discovery, Connection, and Insight
$31.02
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
21 May 2024
Summary
Experience art and design as you’ve never experienced them before with 101 imaginative, mindfulness-based practices that will engage your senses, open your mind, and transform your next museum visit.
Switch off your phone, take a deep breath, and prepare for adventure. Mindful Eye, Playful Eye invites readers on a thoughtful journey through museums, with 101 practices designed to nurture the development of attention, creativity, and compassion. This book encourages a playful …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781588347626 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1588347621 |
| Author: | Michael Garbutt, Nico Roenpagel, Frank Feltens |
| Publisher: | Smithsonian Books |
| Imprint: | Smithsonian Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 21 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 366g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 250mm x 186mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
LIBRARY JOURNAL
”‘Museum’ often elicits the image of a quiet, stately place where one browses exhibitions, but this book encourages readers to create their own unique museum experiences, through 101 activities that employ mindfulness and/or play [and] emphasize that play, a powerful means of inquiry and discovery, can expand into adulthood. […] This imaginative book of engaging, fresh ideas for museum experiences encourages finding wonder everywhere. Museum and art lovers will enjoy.”
About The Author
Michael Garbutt
MICHAEL GARBUTT is a senior lecturer in the School of Art & Design at UNSW Sydney where he teaches spatial experience design and researches the embodied visual behaviors of art museum visitors.
NICO ROENPAGEL is a meditation teacher and expert on mindful leadership whose research highlighted the role of spirituality in art museum education.
FRANK FELTENS is curator of Japanese Art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art and author of Hokusai’s Brush.
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