The guitarist Eric Clapton was known for his pioneering electric guitar work, acoustic and slide guitar and Dobro skills.  Equally impressive, was his interest in personally restringing his own guitar, to his liking, between song breaks, rather than having a roadie do it. This often-meant long pauses between songs,

which in turn, would prompt audience members to break out into a slow hand clap, thus giving him the nickname of “Slowhand”.

The Slow Art Movement is grounded with this Clapton dynamic, where the appreciation of slow accurate and intensive process as well as the savoring of artworks in a conscious and deliberate manner avoids the big gulp of the fast-paced, short attention spanned, tweeting society and culture.  Psychology Today studied people’s observation times on 6 masterpieces at the Met in NYC and found it to be only 17 seconds. Creatives and art in SLOWHAND quiet the pace of both the creation that impact the viewing experience and change the way we embrace and approach this meaning. The artists featured: Laurie Addis, Kate Budd, Ryn Clarke, Jill Eisert, Bob Herbst, Nancy Katz, Jacquie Kennedy, Myrya Johnson, Frank Oriti, Theadis Reagins, Katie Richards, Noel Reifel, Adrienne Slane and Judy Takacs.

Image by Theadis Reagins