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 Jenn Wilson and will be via trolley or mini coach. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:
The Gallery at City Hall. In and Out of Focus; Reality and Memories at City Hall’s Gallery explores the powerful space between appreciating the immediate moment & respecting the intangibility of our memories. The artists, Olive the Giant (Quinn Bryan) & Jaclyn Tomasso, use a range of color, scale, & subject in their painting technique & palette, to delve into the notion of being in the here & now.
AS220 Main Gallery presents two exhibits, Tall Tales by Raphael Serrano Disla & Gravity by Benjamin Messore. Tall Tales centers the immigrant experience, enculturation, familial bonds, & memory through a series of paintings. In Gravity, Messore uses candid photography to capture the essence of gut feelings & intuition.
AS220 Aborn Gallery. In Dancing Round the Normals, John Buron embraces the mildly absurd and challenges social mores in this series of paintings and installation works. The exhibit encourages viewers to resist conventional perceptions.
The Artists Loop at Wanskuck Community Library features textile artist Dawn Oliveira, Founder of the RI based fabric design studio, Oliveira Textiles. Oliveira will share her design process creating sea-inspired printed organic natural fabrics for Interior Designers. In addition, view an exhibit of work by four artists, Alix Fuerst, Dawn Oliveira, Pnina Pressburger, & Robin Halpren-Ruder. In the Children's area of the library, local artist Cathren Housley will unveil Imagination Takes Flight, a community collaborative art project combining paintings by the library’s youth with her own crafting skills.
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.
