March Tour Announcements

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

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We will leave at 6:30 pm from the WaterFire Arts Center at 475 Valley Street, and return to the WaterFire Arts Center around 8:30 pm.

This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Danielle Wolfrum. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College is showing “Range of Motion, Landscapes by Charles Goolsby.” Charles Goolsby’s oil paintings of landscapes reside between complete stillness and sweeping gestural chaos, specific place and fiction, rendered realism and ambiguous abstraction, and physical object and illusionary pictorial space. His landscape imagery builds on 19th century American landscape painting traditions and implies a sense of contemporary issues.

  • The Gallery at Sprout CoWorking has an exciting show planned for March for spring and women's history month! Artists Charlotte Collins, Janice Bowker, and Amie Noakes are three artists that the colors and forms in their work could remind one of a love of shape, flow, life, and things that grow. And through the colors, forms, shapes, and lines, we can feel a relief that we have made it through another dormant sleep of Mother Nature and we can sprout into spring!

  • BIG NAZO LAB’s “Space Transformation Station” Mill-Rocket Studio, where you *may* meet some theatrical aliens. This is an interactive experience that's fun for all ages, so come prepared to engage and have fun!

  • WaterFire Arts Center is proud to announce the opening of a retrospective exhibition showcasing the illustrious career of Gretchen Dow Simpson, a distinguished painter, photographer, and artist. Spanning decades of creative exploration, Gretchen Dow Simpson's oeuvre reflects a deep-seated fascination with the interplay of shapes, light, and color.

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!

March 21 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 tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Irene Yibirin. While the tour will be led in English, Irene is fluent in both English and Spanish. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • AS220 Project Space presents two exhibits. In the Project Space, “REPRESENTATION: Recent Fetish Photography” By Mr M, showcases recent work by Michael Morasse that encapsulates the essence to the LGBTQ+ and Fetish communities. In the Reading Room, “SISSY!” by Scarlett Sensi pays homage to those who brazenly show their true colors, including crossdressers across the spectrum. ***Please note: These exhibits contain artwork that has nudity and sexual content and may not be suitable for all ages.***

  • The Gallery at 134 Collaborative / Mathewson Street Church is showing “Wood and Wool: FiberWork Musings by Joy Williams,” where color, texture, pattern, and image are explored through the media of assemblage, knit work, wet felting, and lace. “The tactile experience of making itself, so immediate and sensual, never fails to inspire me,” says the artist. Joy Williams is also a folk musician specializing in Irish flutes and whistles.

  • Art in the Atrium First U presents “Ekphrasis,” an invitational exhibition with works by 17 Artists and 17 Poets. There will be an opening reception on Gallery Night (Thursday March 21) from 5 to 7:30 pm, as well as a Poetry Reading on Thursday April 11 from 7 to 8 pm.

  • 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!

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!

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

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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 Bradly VanDerStad. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • The Gallery at City Hall is joining forces with the SGCI (Southern Graphics Council International) Printmaking Conference, which is coming to Providence in April. They are curating a group print show, “Making an Impression: Building on Knowledge in Providence Printmaking.” The show will let us see the relationships, inspirations, and influences that contribute to a vibrant printmaking community over time, all in the backdrop of our own City Hall, reinforcing our commitment to artmaking as a civic-minded act that requires us to learn, experiment and pass it on.

  • BankRI Turks Head Gallery is showing “Drawings and Watercolors by Thea Ernest.” Ernest’s watercolor sketches are spontaneous reactions to her environment. She is curious and willing to draw anything that catches her eye – an industrial building, tomato plants in their cages, people in a cafe, a sycamore tree or her neighbor’s house. She has an intimate, easy style that’s more about capturing the feel of a place than cataloging details. She loves to be out in the world chronicling the ever-changing landscape of the state.

  • Galerie le Domaine at Domain Properties  is opening its 2024 season with the printwork of Lois Harada. Lois holds a BFA degree from RISD and has been working at DWRI Letterpress since 2011. She is an accomplished and creative printmaker and received several awards and residencies.

  • Paper Nautilus Books is showing “New Works” by Dianne Wilkinson. Dianne's sculptural pieces are mostly created from common and recycled textile materials. They hang like curtains and burst from the wall like organic growths.”Much of my inspiration comes from organic forms found in nature, and I select materials that reflect that–some reclaimed and some ordinary. I love the texture of the raw material as I work with it by sewing, knotting, and felting.”

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!

March 21 Gallery Night - 5 pm tour details announced!

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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 Jenn Wilson. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • AS220 Aborn Gallery is showing “Dear You” by Ruby T. Lopez Rios. Ruby (she/her/hers) is a Puerto Rican poet and visual artist that works with a fusion of mixed media such as acrylic paint, charcoal, textiles, and poetry. Her artwork acts as an outlet to understand the surreal nature of life’s absurdity and explores the finite nature of not only life and interpersonal relations, but culture and struggles of disenfranchised people.

  • David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University will present a comprehensive survey exhibition of artist Barbara T. Smith. The exhibition will survey Smith’s bold experimentation and celebrate Smith’s incomparable contributions to contemporary art, feminism, performance, and technology. This includes the artist’s radical Xerox works, mixed media assemblages, sculptures, artist’s books, drawings, paintings, photographs, and videos.

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

  • RI Center for Photographic Arts is showcasing their “10th International Juried Exhibition,” juried by Karen Haas of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The work in this exhibition was selected from an international call for entries to provide an updated look at current photographic practice, with 60 photographs from artists from 20 different states and Washington DC.

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!