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Pairing Mindful Meditation with a Scholar’s Rock

Scholar’s rock, Chinese, Qing dynasty, probably 18th century. Ying stone: black limestone with veins of white calcite. From Yingde, Guangdong province. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Marcus, 1981.206.

Tour

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

In honor of Slow Art Day, Caitlin Casey, a student in the arts in education program at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE), will guide visitors in a special mindfulness meditation session.

Inspired by Christophe Andre’s book Looking at Mindfulness: Twenty-Five Paintings to Change the Way You Live and HGSE’s Project Zero, which offers thinking routines like See-Wonder-Connect, this meditative experience will allow visitors to engage deeply with an 18th-century Chinese scholar’s rock from the Qing dynasty. The black limestone sculpture was historically viewed as a status symbol and object of meditative contemplation. The session will explore how practicing mindfulness in the galleries can heighten appreciation of art and help visitors gain valuable insights about their thoughts and feelings through prolonged visual observation.

Free with museums admission. This tour is limited to 10 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the tour, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.