LOOKING AT WATER is a creative workshop about slowing down to see in new ways.

For one hour, we’ll gather together to look at water in art, play with flow and fluidity, and turn that same attention toward our own inner currents. Through simple guided activities inspired by museum visits, we’ll practice the art of slow looking: outward and inward, with curiosity and openness.

This session will have you engaging with artwork as a way to explore the experience of being alive. You'll leave ready to see your daily life with fresh eyes.

💧 Live on Zoom
💧 Recording included
💧 No art history background required. Come as you are.

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“A moment out of time. A time to slow down in good company.”
- Previous retreat participant

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This workshop might be right for you if:

• You want to cultivate attention, creativity, and play
• You are depleted and need some nourishment
• You enjoy art museums, or
• You do not enjoy art museums...

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“A gentle retreat from life to look at art — to slowly look and listen to what your body is telling you about it.”
- Previous retreat participant

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Special Ticket Rates

💧 Paid Substack subscribers to the Museum Gaze newsletter receive free access to this workshop. Enter the code at the bottom of this newsletter at checkout. (Not yet a paid subscriber? Join here to get your discount code.)

💧 Several no-cost tickets are available by request to support broader access to this experience. If this would make it possible for you to join us, reach out here.

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“A beautiful invitation to process life through the lens of a museum experience.”
- Previous retreat participant

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Testimonials From Past Retreat Attendees

“Facilitated with grace and humility and authentic care.”

“I felt welcomed, appreciated, and accepted. The format was well organized and thoughtful.”

"Although it was not the reason I attended, I was surprised and delighted at how it calmed my nervous system, which was recovering from a season of stress."

“It surprised me how looking at light and dark easily resonated with my life. My thoughts kept looking to my life and finding meaning.”

"I find looking at the artwork intensely opens up feelings inside of myself."

“I didn’t know what to expect but thoroughly enjoyed it. It felt very calming. The format allowed for creative processing and thinking outside of the box—or the loop of thoughts that has been circling in my head.”

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“A process of letting your gaze linger with an image and consider the possible ways you can connect to that image in new ways.”
- Previous retreat participant

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Details

The recording will be available for 30 days following the workshop (please allow 48 hours for processing).

Please note: Due to the digital nature of this workshop, refunds cannot be given.

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“An opportunity to engage with your everyday environment after you've spent some time looking at art... to prompt looking at the everyday as art.”
- Previous retreat participant

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About Marina Gross-Hoy, PhD

I'm a storyteller and Museum Studies scholar whose work invites people to cultivate new relationships with the experience of being alive.

My speaking engagements and literary essays offer spaces to experiment with other ways of inhabiting and understanding embodied experience. I have a PhD in Museum Studies from the Université du Québec à Montréal, and my newsletter, The Museum Gaze, explores how playing with new ways of paying attention to our lives can open us up to wonder, compassion, and agency.

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About This Workshop Series

"LOOKING AT..." is my on-going series of online slow looking workshops centered around playing with new ways of paying attention to the experience of being alive through the lens of rotating themes. With deep encoucnters with an artwork and simple activities inspired by museum visits, I guide participants through exercises in the art of slow looking: outward and inward, with curiosity and openness. Previous themes include light and shadows and bodies.

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