Thanks for attending our Season Kick-Off at Bannister Gallery!

On February 27, more than 30 guests gathered at E.M. Bannister at Rhode Island College for our pre-season kick-off and fundraiser.  Guests enjoyed a gallery visit of RaMell Ross' stunning photographs with curator Victoria Gao, a presentation by Ulli Ryder about her father Mahler Ryder's legacy and connection to E.M. Bannister, an opportunity to hear more about the Gallery Night season, as well as refreshments and conversation. 

Thank you to the RISD Museum, Jerry's Artarama, Whalers Brewing, and Level 99 for donating door prizes. We were pleased to welcome familiar faces as well as folks brand new to Gallery Night.  Funds were raised to support the upcoming Gallery Night season as well as to restore the medallions at E.M. Bannister's gravesite at Providence's North Burial ground.

Photos by Quinn Furgeson Photography!

March 20 Gallery Night - 6:30 pm tour details announced!

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Join us for the FIRST Gallery Night of 2025! We will leave at 6:30 pm from the WaterFire Arts Center, and finish our tour at that same location around 8:30 pm. This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Emily Gray. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • Art in the Atrium First U brings to you the opening reception of EKPHRASIS 2025 - WHERE POETRY MEETS ART. Each of 16 invited poets respond to a piece of artwork by an assigned artist and compose a poem. The artwork and poem will be exhibited together.

  • The Avenue Concept invites you to an open house at their headquarters, where you’ll visit their legal graffiti wall and view a special presentation of outdoor video projections.

  • Sprout CoWorking Gallery is proud to present their first show of the 2025 Year; "Beads and Baubles", a solo exhibition by photographer Robert Easton, who is showcasing works taken at local businesses, putting the small and unnoticed center stage. Please join us for the opening reception with food and drink provided.

  • WaterFire Arts Center announces Graphic Voices of Latin America, a powerful collection of Latin American posters that serve as both artistic expressions and historical documents of resistance, resilience, and cultural identity. Curated by José R. Menéndez and Tatiana Gómez of Buena Gráfica Social Studio, this exhibition presents graphic works from 16 countries across Latin America.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the seats on the trolley or mini coach will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the seats are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask that you donate $1 when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time.

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

  • If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.

  • Tours occasionally run late. We recommend allowing buffer time if you're planning on attending another event after ours.

March 20 Gallery Night - 6:00 pm tour details announced!

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Join us for the FIRST Gallery Night of 2025! We will leave at 6:00 pm from the Graduate Hotel, and finish our tour at that same location around 8:00 pm. This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Danielle Wolfrum. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • The Repair Atelier presents the work of artists Markus Berger, Derek Bernstein, and Jeffrey Boomer in Embodied Dialogues. This exhibition explores the interplay between creator and creation, material and meaning, and context and transformation, uncovering the unseen exchanges that shape artistic expression. It invites viewers into an unfolding dialogue, where art is not a static artifact but a resonant act of engagement—an open-ended process of becoming.

  • RI Center for Photographic Arts celebrates Women’s History Month with Behind the Lens 2025: Women in Photography - 2020 re/visited. This exhibition revisits a group of early-career female artists featured in 2020, presenting an update of how their practice has developed over time.

  • RISD Museum | Get a taste of the many amazing exhibits housed here, including The Art of French Wallpaper Design, which explores the vibrant designs that adorned walls in the 1700s and 1800s. This exhibition features more than 100 rare samples of salvaged wallpapers, borders, fragments, and design drawings.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the seats on the trolley or mini coach will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the seats are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask that you donate $1 when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time.

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour tab page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

  • If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.

  • Tours occasionally run late. We recommend allowing buffer time if you're planning on attending another event after ours.

March 20 Gallery Night - 5:30 pm tour details announced!

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Join us for the FIRST Gallery Night of 2025! We will leave at 5:30 pm from the WaterFire Arts Center, and finish our tour at that same location around 7:30 pm. This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Irene Yibirin and will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • Providence College Galleries is delighted to announce Sandplay, an ongoing collaboration between artists Mirthe Berentsen and Martín La Roche. The exhibition explores the transformative value of storytelling and memories associated with tangible objects, posing the question: How do personal objects shape our stories and connect us to others?

  • Bannister Gallery presents Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body: The Work of RaMell Ross. This two-time Academy Award Nominated filmmaker explores the meaning and mythology of the American South and of Black identity through large format color photographs.

  • The Avenue Concept invites you to an open house at their headquarters, where you’ll visit their legal graffiti wall and view a special presentation of outdoor video projections.

  • WaterFire Arts Center announces Graphic Voices of Latin America, a powerful collection of Latin American posters that serve as both artistic expressions and historical documents of resistance, resilience, and cultural identity. Curated by José R. Menéndez and Tatiana Gómez of Buena Gráfica Social Studio, this exhibition presents graphic works from 16 countries across Latin America.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the seats on the trolley or mini coach will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the seats are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask that you donate $1 when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time.

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

  • If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.

  • Tours occasionally run late. We recommend allowing buffer time if you're planning on attending another event after ours.

March 20 Gallery Night - 5:15 pm tour details announced!

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Join us for the FIRST Gallery Night of 2025! We will leave at 5:15 pm from the Graduate Hotel, and return to the Graduate around 7:15 pm. This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Shannon Hadfield accompanied by Guest Guide Tom Scicluna, an artist and Assistant Professor of Art at Florida International University, whose site-based sculptures, interventions, and gestures reconfigure commercially available objects and discarded materials to explore public space, participation, and authorship. The tour will make a stop at his Channel Park Bench at the corner of Empire Street and Fountain Street. You will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • AS220 Project Space and Reading Room | Eli Tegus’s exhibition Collapsible Sentinels documents his landscape interventions. “An old bottle can contain mysteries, unknown substances. They have always intrigued me as a link to the past, as vessels of forgotten necessities. They are kindred to landscapes containing ruins; the possibilities of the past motivate my mind.” ALSO on view is Felt in the Fiber. Through the media of assemblage, knit work, wet felting, and lace, Joy Ann Williams explores color, texture, pattern, and image.

  • Angell Street Galleries presents their Inaugural Exhibition featuring artists John Buron, Susan Clausen, Umberto Crenca, Richard Goulis, Chris Kilduff, Erminio Pinque, and Lindsay Quayle. Angell St. is new to the community – come support their first show!

  • Galerie le Domaine presents a collection of paintings by Berke Marye. Influenced by the New York school of painters, Marye’s abstract paintings are full of movement and life. Using acrylic paint, water, gel medium and his hands Berke is drawn to color and how far he can push it into conversing with another color.

  • The Avenue Concept invites you to an open house at their headquarters, where you’ll visit their legal graffiti wall and view a special presentation of outdoor video projections.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the seats on the trolley or mini coach will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the seats are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask that you donate $1 when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time.

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour tab page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

  • If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.

  • Tours occasionally run late. We recommend allowing buffer time if you're planning on attending another event after ours.

March 20 Gallery Night - 5:00 pm tour details announced!

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Join us for the FIRST Gallery Night of 2025! We will leave at 5:00 pm from the Graduate Hotel at 11 Dorrance Street, and return to the Graduate around 7:00 pm. This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Larisa Martino and will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • The Gallery at City Hall is pleased to host a fashion show organized by artist Maria Grace. During the opening on Gallery Night, models in sweaters, hats, dresses, and garments of many kinds made by Maria and others will “walk the runway” in the City Hall Atrium with poets and a singer interspersed.

  • AS220 Aborn Gallery presents On Fridays We Fish Fry, Kincaid McLaren’s visual story of family lands, homes of grandparents and distant relatives, Christ Church Barbados. Experience the beauty of peace, culture, love, and family from Sunday to Friday Fish Frys. McLaren’s photography elevates the beauty, stories, and experiences of her black and brown community, particularly those of black women.

  • Studio Hop, a local studio and shop specializing in contemporary fine art, hand crafts, jewelry, ceramics, and clothing.

  • The Bell presents Julien Creuzet: Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon. Creuzet has reimagined his French Pavillion from the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) for The Bell: an immersive video and archipelagic sculptural installation that extends his focus on water as a site of both historical and contemporary traumas and emancipatory futures.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the seats on the trolley or mini coach will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the seats are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask that you donate $1 when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time.

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

  • If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.

  • Tours occasionally run late. We recommend allowing buffer time if you're planning on attending another event after ours.

Thank you to all who attended November 21 Gallery Night!

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Visitors enjoying “BuyArt” at WaterFire Arts Center

We had so much fun during the last Gallery Night of the season!

Between the 6 free guided tours and people visiting the gallery shows on their own, we had around 421 people participate.

We had many first-time and returning Gallery Night visitors on all tours — with all delighted to discover new spaces and learn from our knowledgeable guides. Lots of young people attended tours this month, leaving us content in knowing we expanded our audience this season. 

Although the evening was rainy and chilly with traffic getting into the city, 23 people joined us from out of state. We had attendees from as far away as Ohio, Florida, and West Virginia!

Enjoy some photos and anecdotes in the recap below.

Some unexpected yet wonderfully interactive elements were incorporated on this month’s tours!

The 6:30 pm tour first stopped at Bannister Gallery at RIC and enjoyed a brief talk from artist Richard Whitten. His show, Objects of Wonder, was comprised of a selection of paintings that transport the viewer into a world of imagined architectural spaces.

This tour finished at WaterFire Arts Center, where Kyle Machado was present to speak to visitors about his work! WaterFire’s “BuyArt” show featured the work of dozens of local artists to be purchased right off the walls. As works sold they were replaced with new ones from each artist’s archive.

“I loved the first particular spot, at RIC. That was such an engaging gallery with a talk from the artist himself.”
— Stella, 6:30 tour

Word of mouth and personal connections have been among the most important means of drawing people to our events…

Gallery Night’s very own team and board have brought along many family members and friends to our programming this season, with all expressing positive feedback and some having attended as many as three Gallery Nights in 2024!

We love hosting your loved ones and hope you share Gallery Night with more of your people in 2025 :) Your participation in our programming helps Providence’s vibrant artist community continue to flourish… We can’t thank you enough for this fantastic year spent advocating for and admiring our local art scene.

Thanks so much to everyone who joined us this season <3 We had so much fun sharing the world of Providence’s creativity with you! More to come on 2025 programming… you’ll be hearing from us soon!

“A few folks mentioned they were happy to have the opportunity to see the Little Pictures Show as their final stop because they felt they would have extra time to look at everything. It was seamless and fun for us. Looking forward to the December installment.”
— Michael Rose, Gallery Manager at Providence Art Club

3 Nights of Lights 2024 - 6 pm tour details announced!

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Join us as part of Providence’s 3 Nights of Lights programming on Thursday, December 5! We will leave at 6 pm from the Graduate Hotel at 11 Dorrance Street. This trolley tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Rex M. Blumenthal. You will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • RI Center for Photographic Arts hosts their 6th Annual Open Community Member Exhibition: Be a Friend & Bring a Friend. Artwork is available to be purchased by visitors directly off the wall. Join us on Gallery Night for the opening reception of this community building event featuring the work of RICPA members.

  • WaterFire Arts Center invites visitors to BuyArt, a small works holiday show featuring 30+ artists. The show encourages visitors to support local artists by giving the gift of art for the holidays and purchasing small works right 'off the wall'. New works will be added as works sell.

  • The Avenue Concept’s Illuminated Avenue Mural Activations.

All tours include Storytelling of Grant’s Block, Westminster History with Marisa Angell Brown of Providence Preservation Society and a warming stop for a complimentary Wine Tasting at ENO Fine Wines!

☆ Join us on a first come first-served basis — No advance sign ups necessary! ☆

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

3 Nights of Lights 2024 - 5:30 tour details announced!

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Join us as part of Providence’s 3 Nights of Lights programming on Thursday, December 5! We will leave at 5:30 pm from the Graduate Hotel at 11 Dorrance Street. This trolley tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Jenn Wilson. You will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • Art in the Atrium First U is excited to host Small Works 2024, a six-week exhibit for Member Artists. The show features collage, prints, paintings, photographs, assemblages and 3-D work.

  • Providence Art Club presents The 120th Annual Little Pictures Show & Sale, the oldest and largest exhibition of small works in the United States. This year’s show features over 700 original works of all kinds, including painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, jewelry, glass, fine woodworking, and more. There is something for everyone at this exhibition of local, affordable work! 

  • The Avenue Concept ’s Illuminated Avenue Mural Activations.

All tours include Storytelling of Grant’s Block, Westminster History with Marisa Angell Brown of Providence Preservation Society and a warming stop for a complimentary Wine Tasting at ENO Fine Wines!

☆ Join us on a first come first-served basis — No advance sign ups necessary! ☆

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

3 Nights of Lights 2024 - 5:15 tour details announced!

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Join us as part of Providence’s 3 Nights of Lights programming on Thursday, December 5! We will leave at 5:15 pm from the Graduate Hotel at 11 Dorrance Street, and. This walking tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Frank Toti accompanied by Guest Guide Jamie Coelho, Rhode Island Monthly Editor-in-chief and Avenue Concept Board Chair! You will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • AS220 Project Space welcomes you to view Gunnar Norquist:  An Exhibition of Recent Works on Paper.

  • 134 Collaborative / Mathewson Street Church exhibiting Cardboard Paintings from the Space Transformation Station by @MinioMindWarp, collection and collage of individually painted cardboard cut-outs created for protest, celebration and transformation of public space and private places. The Exhibit will be a mix of the paintings that were made for advocacy efforts for the Homeless and displaced citizens of RI and will include some fantastical elements intended to create surreal "eye candy" in "real world" settings.

  • The Avenue Concept ’s Illuminated Avenue Mural Activations.

All tours include Storytelling of Grant’s Block, Westminster History with Marisa Angell Brown of Providence Preservation Society and a warming stop for a complimentary Wine Tasting at ENO Fine Wines!

☆ Join us on a first come first-served basis — No advance sign ups necessary! ☆

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

November 21 Gallery Night - 6:30 pm tour details announced!

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Spend the last Gallery Night of the season with us! We will leave at 6:30 pm from the WaterFire Arts Center at 475 Valley Street, and return to the same location around 8:30 pm. This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Shannon Hadfield via trolley or mini coach and will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • Bannister Gallery presents Richard Whitten: Objects of Wonder, a selection of paintings that transport the viewer into a world of imagined architectural spaces. Whitten depicts imagined machines inspired by the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci and others of the Renaissance era. Viewers are invited to bring the worlds inside the paintings to life – to propel the machine into motion – through sight and thought alone.

  • The Gallery at Sprout CoWorking is proud to announce another dual show where visitors will view two exhibitions. In the large gallery, Ted DiLucia’s Night Gallery, showcases 13 paintings based on episodes from Rod Serling's Night Gallery television show, which uses fine art as a window to the paranormal and strange. On view in the small gallery is a Photography Exhibition of artists Robert Easton, Casey Wright, Samantha Gervais, Larry Maglott, and Chris Macri.

  • WaterFire Arts Center invites visitors to BuyArt, a small works holiday show featuring 30+ artists. The show encourages visitors to support local artists by giving the gift of art for the holidays and purchasing small works right 'off the wall'. New works will be added as works sell.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the seats on the trolley or mini coach will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the seats are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask that you donate $1 when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time.

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

  • If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.

  • Tours occasionally run late. We recommend allowing buffer time if you're planning on attending another event after ours.

And…enjoy a sneak peek of some of the artwork you can see at these spaces on gallery night!

November 21 Gallery Night - 6:00 pm tour details announced!

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Spend the last Gallery Night of the season with us! We will leave at 6:00 pm from the Graduate Hotel at 11 Dorrance Street, and return to the Graduate around 8:00 pm. This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Bradly VanDerStad via trolley or mini coach and will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • CIC Providence is hosting a pop-up gallery at Venture Café Providence through the Artists of CIC initiative. This exhibit, Roots and Routes, invites artists to reflect on the paths we’ve traveled and the origins we carry within us. It explores themes of transition, growth, and connection to self, heritage, and community. Throughout the exhibit, guests can enjoy networking, special programming, drinks and light fare.

  • AS220 Main Gallery presents the colorful fabric collages and ribbon quiltings by Cranston artist Carol “Cat” Wiseman as well as Inner Communications and Outer Response by Jack Ellis, a collection of mixed media work on loose canvas, cardboard, and more.

  • AS220 Aborn Gallery welcomes viewers to New and Selected Works, 1968 to 2024 by Don Smith, who works in a range of media including painting, drawing, watercolor, collage, and monoprint. This particular exhibition showcases his body of expressionist work.

  • RISD Museum The RISD Museum has a variety of different exhibits on view. On the Gallery Night tour, you can get a taste of the many amazing exhibits that the museum has to offer! Explore the show Sensory Silhouettes : Experiencing South Asian Garments before it ends next month, an immersive exhibit with audio narrations and textile samples for viewers to touch.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the seats on the trolley or mini coach will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the seats are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask that you donate $1 when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time.

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour tab page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

  • If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.

  • Tours occasionally run late. We recommend allowing buffer time if you're planning on attending another event after ours.

And…enjoy a sneak peek of some of the artwork you can see at these spaces on gallery night!

November 21 Gallery Night - 5:45 pm tour details announced!

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Spend the last Gallery Night of the season with us! We will leave at 5:45 pm from the WaterFire Arts Center at 475 Valley Street, and return to the same location around 7:45 pm. This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Emily Gray via trolley or mini coach and will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • Anahid Ypres Art Studio Get an inside look at the artist’s studio and appreciate seeing both in progress & finished paintings! Her work touches on subjects ranging from landscapes & the figure, to abstract still lifes.

  • RI Center for Photographic Arts hosts their 6th Annual Open Community Member Exhibition: Be a Friend & Bring a Friend. Artwork is available to be purchased by visitors directly off the wall. Join us on Gallery Night for the opening reception of this community building event featuring the work of RICPA members.

  • The Chazan Gallery at Wheeler presents Mo Kelman’s solo show, Water Ways. She creates sculptures using malleable materials that merge abstract images of water with industrial architecture. “The natural world is forever transforming and adaptable. My artwork contemplates and celebratesnature’s relentless power, and compares it with a built world that inevitably gives way,” the artist states. The opening reception will be held on Gallery Night!

  • WaterFire Arts Center invites visitors to BuyArt, a small works holiday show featuring 30+ artists. The show encourages visitors to support local artists by giving the gift of art for the holidays and purchasing small works right 'off the wall'. New works will be added as works sell.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the seats on the trolley or mini coach will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the seats are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask that you donate $1 when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time.

Accessibility notes:

  • Anahid Ypres and RI Photo (located in the same building) are not wheelchair accessible :(

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

  • If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.

  • Tours occasionally run late. We recommend allowing buffer time if you're planning on attending another event after ours.

And…enjoy a sneak peek of some of the artwork you can see at these spaces on gallery night!

November 21 Gallery Night - 5:30 pm tour details announced!

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Spend the last Gallery Night of the season with us! We will leave at 5:30 pm from the Graduate Hotel at 11 Dorrance Street, and return to the Graduate around 7:30 pm. This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Rex M. Blumenthal via trolley or mini coach and will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • AS220 Resident Gallery presents a culmination of work from Linda Ford’s public project “Bodies of Water, Bodies of Land, Bodies”. She says, “I fill sidewalk cracks with blue polyester elastomer, both repairing the sidewalks and referencing the waterways that once ran freely through the landscape and are now polluted, siphoned, diverted and dammed.” AS220 visitors can pick up a map that locates these installations throughout Providence, each with an embedded QR code that links to information on environmental issues.

  • Galerie le Domaine is pleased to offer a showing of work by Jean-Paul Jacquet, an American painter, sculptor, muralist, published illustrator, and educator. Jacquet’s eclectic, expressive work is culturally and socially driven, reflective of his personal observations about the world and influenced by his travels.

  • Stewart House welcomes visitors to browse their curated selection of home decor. The theme on Gallery Night is art and utilitarianism: in other words, can art be tangibly useful and still be considered high art? What defines aesthetics and how can we incorporate it - particularly in an age of anxiety - into our lives for both meaning and purpose?

  • Paper Nautilus Books presents Contours of Change by Margie Butler, a collection of paintings and mixed media works that are dynamic yet soothing to view and touch on themes of growth, duality, and process over product. “Art can be as simple as just letting something happen”, the artist notes in her statement.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the seats on the trolley or mini coach will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the seats are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask that you donate $1 when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time.

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

  • If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.

  • Tours occasionally run late. We recommend allowing buffer time if you're planning on attending another event after ours.

And…enjoy a sneak peek of some of the artwork you can see at these spaces on gallery night!

November 21 Gallery Night - 5:15 pm tour details announced!

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Spend the last Gallery Night of the season with us! We will leave at 5:15 pm from the Graduate Hotel at 11 Dorrance Street, and return to the Graduate around 7:15 pm. This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Frank Toti via trolley or mini coach and will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • The Gallery at City Hall, presenting the work of artists Kannetha Brown and Tarik Bartel in their exhibition titled YEAY YAI: An Ode to Grandmothers. Experience the stories of their beloved Southeast Asian grandmothers captured in each frame by these two talented portrait photographers.

  • 134 Collaborative / Mathewson Street Church, exhibiting Cardboard Paintings from the Space Transformation Station by @MinioMindWarp, collection and collage of individually painted cardboard cut-outs created for protest, celebration and transformation of public space and private places. The Exhibit will be a mix of the paintings that were made for advocacy efforts for the Homeless and displaced citizens of RI and will include some fantastical elements intended to create surreal "eye candy" in "real world" settings.

  • AS220 Project Space Experience GORO, an exhibition of recent work by Chris Kilduff, including comic illustrations, collage, and mixed media pieces including plushies, skateboard decks, epoxy, and other odds and ends!

  • Providence Art Club presents The 120th Annual Little Pictures Show & Sale, the oldest and largest exhibition of small works in the United States. This year’s show features over 700 original works of all kinds, including painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, jewelry, glass, fine woodworking, and more. There is something for everyone at this exhibition of local, affordable work!

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the seats on the trolley or mini coach will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the seats are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask that you donate $1 when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time.

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour tab page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

  • If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.

  • Tours occasionally run late. We recommend allowing buffer time if you're planning on attending another event after ours.

And…enjoy a sneak peek of some of the artwork you can see at these spaces on gallery night!

November 21 Gallery Night - 5:00 pm tour details announced!

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Spend the last Gallery Night of the season with us! We will leave at 5:00 pm from the Graduate Hotel at 11 Dorrance Street, and return to the Graduate around 7:00 pm. This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Irene Yibirin via trolley or mini coach and will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • Studio Hop, a local studio and shop specializing in contemporary fine art, hand crafts, jewelry, ceramics, and clothing.

  • Art in the Atrium First U is excited to host Small Works 2024, a six-week exhibit for Member Artists. The show features collage, prints, paintings, photographs, assemblages and 3-D work. Light refreshments will be served at the opening reception on Gallery Night!

  • The Bell presents Franklin Williams: It’s About Love, which evokes love, death, humor, and other emotions through his use of motifs and shapes in works of diverse mediums. This survey exhibition spans the decades of his studio-based practice and conveys the intensity of emotion for different periods and people in his life.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the seats on the trolley or mini coach will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the seats are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask that you donate $1 when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time.

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

  • If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.

  • Tours occasionally run late. We recommend allowing buffer time if you're planning on attending another event after ours.

And…enjoy a sneak peek of some of the artwork you can see at these spaces on gallery night!

Thank you to all who attended October 17 Gallery Night!

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A visit to “Still Here” by Gaia

This past Gallery Night was a blast!

Between the 7 free guided tours and people visiting the gallery shows on their own, we had around 125 people participate.

We had many first-time and returning Gallery Night visitors on all tours — with all delighted to discover new spaces and learn from our knowledgeable guides. We helped one family from Pennsylvania find a parking spot for their RV in Providence so they could participate in the 6 pm tour! 

We also welcomed people from North Carolina, Florida, and of course, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Enjoy some photos and tidbits in the recap below.

“She Never Came” by BEZT

“Gallery Night Providence and The Avenue Concept : Experience the Best of Both!” was exciting and interactive for tour-goers…

Along with the beautiful visuals, everyone got to enjoy warm cocoa while learning about the artists’ processes. Members of The Avenue Concept team shared anecdotes about the work and the organization’s initiatives.

Murals She Never Came by BEZT, Salt Water by Garden of Journey, and Still Here by Gaia looked incredible illuminated.

Thank you to Cafe Modesto for providing snacks and refreshments!

“Last night was amazing being immersed in the art scene and actually getting to meet some of the artists! Can’t wait to do it again.”
— Tour goer via Instagram

Bob Dilworth showing visitors 帝国崛起 (Empire Rising) by Lauren YS

There were a few guest appearances this month, including Guest Guide and local artist Bob Dilworth, whose company was fondly enjoyed on the 5:30 pm tour! We also got to hang out with Guest Guide Mike Ryan of Motif Magazine on the 6:30 pm tour!!

Anahid Ypres hosted guest artist Fior De La Cruz, who was present to interact with visitors during the event. A bin of her small works were on sale in the studio and a couple of you went home with them! Although Anahid was in Brooklyn on Gallery Night, many thanks to her husband for kindly holding down the studio for visitors :)

And one more quote! Thanks again for joining us in October. We hope to see you for the last Gallery Night of the season in November!

“I enjoyed experiencing the art in Providence that I see or pass by everyday but more in depth. I loved visiting the new Grid gallery. And learning from our tour guide Frank about the history in providence as we drive through. Also our trolley driver was lovely.”
— Isabella, 5 pm tour

October 17 Gallery Night - 6:30 pm tour details announced!

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We will leave at 6:30 pm from the Graduate Hotel at 11 Dorrance Street, and return to the Graduate around 8:30 pm. This month, Gallery Night and The Avenue Concept (TAC) bring to you the first event of a three-part series titled “Gallery Night Providence and The Avenue Concept: Experience the best of both!”, showcasing Providence’s inviting indoor gallery spaces and vibrant outdoor art scene. This series is funded through a grant from RI Commerce.

This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Shannon Hadfield and Guest Guide Mike Ryan, publisher of Motif, RI's arts entertainment magazine! We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • PC Galleries - Present EXPAND: Hillerbrand+Magsamen+Lynn, a mixed media installation featuring a large-scale video projection and evolving tapestry of visual and written materials. Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s mesmerizing images, accompanied by playwright Kirk Lynn’s writing, explore the transformative power found in the everyday through a significant shift in scale and temporality. PCGalleries will have a button-making table so visitors can be creative with us!

  • AS220 Project Space - Brain Trust, a collection of recent bronzes by Bill Shockley & SwampYankee Poster Art. Shockley has a background in woodworking, creating gorgeous surfboards and skateboards. SwampYankee is a designer and illustrator known for his rock n’ roll style “gig” posters.

  • The Gallery at 134 Collaborative / Mathewson Street Church - Presents a body of work by Jonny Skye, a gallerist, curator, writer, educator, and emerging artist redirecting her focus to her own painting practice. “I paint to find coherence in the incoherent…”, the Brown University graduate says in her artist statement.

  • Mural Activation: She Never Came / Salt Water / Empire Rising - TAC will host a Pop-up at the Mathewson Street Lot sharing stories of three spectacular murals: Garden of Journey’s Salt Water, BEZT’s She Never Came and Lauren YS’s NEW PVDFEST commissioned mural “帝国崛起 (Empire Rising)” - The Pop-up will feature a parking space takeover, illuminated and animated murals, art chairs by local artists, and complimentary cocoa & coffee.

More work from The Avenue Concept will be included along the way!

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the seats on the trolley or mini coach will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the seats are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask that you donate $1 when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time.

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour tab page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

  • If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.

  • Tours occasionally run late. We recommend allowing buffer time if you're planning on attending another event after ours.

And…enjoy a sneak peek of some of the artwork you can see at these spaces on gallery night!

October 17 Gallery Night - 6:00 pm tour details announced!

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We will leave at 6:00 pm from the Graduate Hotel at 11 Dorrance Street, and return to the Graduate around 8:00 pm. This month, Gallery Night and The Avenue Concept (TAC) bring to you the first event of a three-part series titled“Gallery Night Providence and The Avenue Concept: Experience the best of both!”, showcasing Providence’s inviting indoor gallery spaces and vibrant outdoor art scene. This series is funded through a grant from RI Commerce.

This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Mike Camera and will be via trolley or mini coach. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • Galerie le Domaine - Offers a showing of work by Jean-Paul Jacquet, an American painter, sculptor, muralist, published illustrator, and educator. Jacquet’s eclectic, expressive work is culturally and socially driven, reflective of his personal observations about the world and influenced by his travels.

  • RISD Museum - Get a taste of the many amazing exhibits that the museum has to offer! This month, explore their newest exhibition Listen!, curated by the RISD art circle, a group of teens from RI and MA.

  • Mural Activation: She Never Came / Salt Water / Empire Rising - TAC will host a Pop-up at the Mathewson Street Lot sharing stories of three spectacular murals: Garden of Journey’s Salt Water, BEZT’s She Never Came and Lauren YS’s NEW PVDFEST commissioned mural “帝国崛起 (Empire Rising)” - The Pop-up will feature a parking space takeover, illuminated and animated murals, art chairs by local artists, and complimentary cocoa & coffee.

    More work from The Avenue Concept will be included along the way!

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the seats on the trolley or mini coach will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the seats are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask that you donate $1 when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time.

Accessibility notes:

  • Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.

  • All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.

  • We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour tab page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.

Some notes to help you out the night of the event!

  • We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!

  • If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.

  • Tours occasionally run late. We recommend allowing buffer time if you're planning on attending another event after ours.

And…enjoy a sneak peek of some of the artwork you can see at these spaces on gallery night!