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.
