Jeannette Rodríguez Píneda and MoMA staff lead an online Slow Looking session focused on the work of artist Carolina Caycedo, on view in the exhibition Carolina Caycedo: Spiral for Shared Dreams.
About Slow Looking
There is no one way to experience, connect with, and understand art. Slow Looking is a space for people to gather, slow down, and experience one work of art for a set period of time. Our time together may consist of guided visualization, slow description, collective interpretation, storytelling, writing, movement, and making personal connections. You will be invited to share your observations, thoughts, and personal responses and we ask you to welcome and notice the perspectives of others. All invitations are always optional. Our intention is to offer a welcoming space for a wide-ranging, international, and inclusive public to experience and respond to art together. We extend a direct invitation to individuals and groups whose perspectives have not been traditionally valued or made visible by dominant institutions and histories. In all our public programs, we encourage those gathered to respect the lived experiences of others and to practice cultural humility. No experience or expertise is required; you already have everything you need to participate. Slow Looking is part of the initiative Artful Practices for Well-Being, which offers ideas for connectedness and healing through art.
Facilitator
Jeannette Rodríguez Píneda is a queer, Afro-indigenous visual storyteller and education designer whose practice weaves together ethnobotany and plant-based photographic processes. Rodríguez Píneda’s work explores the interplay of reconstructed narratives, memory, permanence, Taíno spirituality, and postcolonial trauma. With a life practice deeply rooted in creativity as ancestral knowledge, they believe in a somatic understanding gained through the process of creation. Their pedagogical praxis connects the spheres of art history, decolonial epistemologies, inner development, museum education, and curriculum design. They have collaborated with such organizations as the Dia Art Foundation, The Museum of Modern Art, Queens Museum, Recess Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Storm King Arts Center, Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. Rodríguez Píneda is an active advisory member for the New England Teaching Artist Collective, a steering member for the Youth Organizing Culture Change Fund, and the founder of Movimiento, an initiative to strengthen BiPoc connection to land.
Registration
Register now for the Slow Looking at Home session on Wednesday, March 13, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
This Slow Looking session will be led virtually through Zoom. Participants should have access to a computer, smart phone, or tablet with a camera and an Internet connection. Participants may also dial in using a phone line. Please bring several sheets of paper and writing materials.
Accessibility
There will be verbal descriptions for all images. A PDF of the presentation is available in advance upon request. Live CART captioning will be available. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation is available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these accommodations.
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Access and Community Programs are supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
Major funding is provided by Volkswagen of America, the Agnes Gund Education Endowment Fund for Public Programs, The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art Endowment for Educational Programs, the Jeanne Thayer Young Scholars Fund, and the Annual Education Fund.