Join us at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Greek & Roman Art wing for our second “Voltitsa” (little walk) on Saturday, March 4, at 5 PM. We’ll gather as a community to appreciate Ancient Greek/Hellenic art and artifacts, with the option to have a meal together afterward.

The intention of our Voltitsa is to encourage mindful viewing of art, new perspectives, community, and ultimately to help you find your own “muse” or inspiration to carry forward.  We’re excited to focus on the Met’s “Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color” exhibit, which shows how ancient artifacts appeared in their time: in color! It “reveals the colorful backstory of polychromy—meaning “many colors” in Greek—and presents new discoveries of surviving ancient color on artworks in The Met’s world-class collection. Exploring the artistic practices and materials used in ancient polychromy, the exhibition highlights cutting-edge scientific methods used to identify ancient color and examines how color helped convey meaning in antiquity, and how ancient polychromy has been viewed and understood in later periods.”

Interested? More details: Maria Constantinides (The Akia Shop) and Kristina Headrick (Yia Mas) will be your hosts for the day, guiding you to several pre-selected pieces of art for discussion and facilitating your time to sketch and journal afterward freely. Then, there’s the option to walk together somewhere for a shared meal (the Voltitsa is meant to be equal parts guided and free-flowing so you can find the rhythm that inspires you :)

What’s included:
~ A walk through the Met Greek & Roman wing, including several pre-chosen spots where we’ll stop together for insight, guided discussion, and observation. Note: you’ll also have time to peruse independently!
~We will meet inside the museum at 5:00 PM. Those who register will be sent more details on the exact location.
~Pre-registration is required by March 2 so we can get a head count for whomever wants to join for dinner.
~Note that you will want to arrive a bit early to be in the gallery by 5. Allocate time for lines, we suggest at least 30 minutes.

What’s not included:
~Your entry to the museum, as we know there are different pay structures and some people have memberships.

Maria (founder of The Akia Shop) and Kristina (founder of Yia Mas) are both art lovers, and coincidentally both studied art history while at the University of Virginia! Maria majored in Art history and Italian at UVA (2006), spent a summer working at an archeological excavation in Sicily and went on to receive her Masters in Art History and Museum Studies from BU in 2009. Kristina majored in History at UVA (2011) and minored in Art History. She has gone on to study meditation and yoga and has over 500 hours (RYT) of certifications.