Mindful Museum Practices
About
This three-week series is an introduction to mindfulness practices for museum visits. Led by artist Liz Maynard, participants will practice contemplative awareness through formal and informal learning with artworks. Participants will collectively notice what arises through mindful attention with purpose, moment by moment, and non-judgmentally.
While each week of this program builds on each other, attendance at three sessions is not necessary to participate.
Free. Registration is requested for this in-person session on May 9.
This program will also take place on May 16 and May 23.
Liz Maynard earned a PhD in Art History from McGill University, Montreal, and an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago. In addition to teaching at RISD, she has been teaching Art History and Humanities courses at Rhode Island College since 2007. She has published several articles on the social, political and medical constructions of gender and sexuality. Her art historical research on the representation of trauma and the body led her to pursue training in somatic education, and she also works as a yoga teacher, meditation leader and craniosacral therapist. Her current interests include discerning the rich possibilities in being attentive to how intellectual and creative pursuits intersect with somatic awareness.