walking tour

October 17 Gallery Night - 4:30 pm tour details announced!

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We will leave at 4:30 pm from the Graduate Hotel at 11 Dorrance Street, and return to the Graduate around 6:30 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 Jenn Wilson.

This is a walking tour - make sure you wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather! In addition to murals and architecture along the way, we 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.

  • AS220 Main Gallery - At AS220’s Main Gallery, appreciate two exhibitions. Founding Whimsy Wherever I Can engages viewers with playful work by painter and comic illustrator Moxie Popky-Gousie. Opening your Heart with the Energies of the Cosmos by Ewa Rose accompanies Moxie’s work with vibrant colors and lots of movement.

  • AS220 Aborn Gallery - On view in the Aborn Gallery is a show titled Pestilence by James Iannone. Born in Providence and raised in Cranston, Iannone has a long standing relationship with AS220; it was here that his first show was held in 1998!

  • 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 spots on the tour will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the spots 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!

September 19 Gallery Night - 5:00 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. September tours include exclusive spaces showcased in partnership with DESIGNxRI.

This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Barbara Zdravesky with guest guide Jo Lee, a board member at DESIGNxRI.

This is a walking tour - make sure you wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather! In addition to murals and architecture along the way, we will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • Bela Monde (with DESIGNxRI) - An apparel and accessories brand founded by Lisa Limer and Johnnie Chace, crafting timeless coats and accessories that focuses on luxurious fabrics, pattern, and color.

  • AS220 Main Gallery - At AS220’s Main Gallery, appreciate two exhibitions. In Eveline Luppi’s Geometric Color Identity, Luppi reveals the complexities of contemporary life through meditative uses of color and geometry and her complex and explorative paint practices. Main Character Energy by Anthony Gregg presents a collection of works that explore the dichotomy of comfort and chaos. That visual play between tension and calm capture the events of processing surrounding environments.

  • AS220 Aborn Gallery - Explore the boundary between art, poetry, and the natural world with Realmz by RI artist, Natural. Natural presents a series of works that illustrate his visual and musical languages through a range of materials like spray paint, acrylic, and sculpture.

  • 134 Collaborative / Mathewson Street Church - Ewa Roselli and her daughter Chloe Moers connect their work in a joint exhibition on the beauty of nature. Ewa’s vibrant and intuitive large paintings, as well as her smaller nature-inspired watercolors, will be on display. Paired with each of the watercolors is a poem gently crafted by Chloe.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the spots on the tour will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the spots 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!

August 15 Gallery Night - 5:45 pm tour details announced!

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We will leave at 5:45 pm from the Graduate Hotel at 11 Dorrance Street, and return to the Graduate around 7:45 pm.

This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Bradly VanDerStad.

This is a walking tour - make sure you wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather! In addition to murals and architecture along the way, we will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • The Gallery at City Hall presents Celebrating One Nation One Project: Artwork from Carroll Tower and Chad Brown, a joint initiative with Providence Housing Authority. Two artists in residence at Carroll Tower and Chad Brown for a year present their work made during this experience.

  • BankRI Turks Head Gallery showcases the work of Rachel Hulin in Photographic works from Unreliable Narrator & Equine Film Stills. Hulin uses AI to create equine-focused images, building the image through her specific directives & her unique editing process to create surprising outcomes.

  • Rhode Island State Archives. Mighty Voices: Petitioning for Change Throughout History features an array of original manuscripts written by Rhode Islanders past as they came together around a cause. 120 Years of the Rhode Island State House tells the story of the design, construction, and past and present uses of the State House.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the spots on the tour will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the spots 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!

July 18 Gallery Night - 5:45 pm tour details announced!

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We will leave at 5:45 pm from the Graduate Hotel at 11 Dorrance Street, and return to the Graduate around 7:45 pm.

This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Barbara Zdravesky.

This is a walking tour - make sure you wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather! We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • AS220 Project Space’s exhibit explores Bridges, a new book by artist Lara Henderson. Combining rainbow paper, overprinting, & images of cascading waterfalls, Henderson conveys the transmuting power of water.

  • The Gallery at 134 Collaborative / Mathewson Street Church presents an exhibit on the work of Paul Everett. Everett’s work uses real and imagined landscapes that frequently skew perspective to take the viewer on a journey and experiment with sight. In this show, he will have a mix of works in painting and marker drawing.

  • 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!

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the spots on the tour will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the spots 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!

June 20 Gallery Night - 5:45 pm tour details announced!

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We will leave at 5:45 pm from the Graduate Hotel at 11 Dorrance Street, and return to the Graduate around 7:45 pm.

This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Barbara Zdravesky.

This is a walking tour - make sure you wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather! 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 Main Gallery explores the powerful space between appreciating the immediate moment and respecting the intangibility of our memories. The artists, Olive the Giant (Quinn Bryan) and Jaclyn Tomasso, use a range of color, scale, and subject in their painting technique and palette, to delve into the notion of being in the here and now, while also looking with wonderment on what came before and what a new day may bring.

  • BankRI Turks Head Gallery. BankRI Turks Head Gallery presents Pangea, a series by artist Ben Watkins. The word refers to the continent hypothesized by geologists when all land masses were joined together. This work is a light-hearted nod to the idea that we are all connected, which is an even more important concept after the collective experience of a worldwide pandemic.

  • RI Center for Photographic Arts. At the RI Center for Photographic Arts, the Vanta Guild Members present a group show, Family Business. The Vanta Guild is a collective of active, Rhode Island-based Black photographers who unapologetically celebrate and depict the experiences and imaginations of descendants of the African diaspora.

  • Anahid Ypres Art Studio. At Anahid Ypres’s studio you can get an inside look at the artist’s studio, and have the pleasure of seeing both in progress and finished paintings! Her work touches on subjects ranging from landscapes and the figure to abstracted still lifes. This month she has a guest artist, Adam Lima, who uses figuration and abstraction with a mix of somber colors and bright pastels to create a juxtaposition on the fears and joys of life.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!

Half of the spots on the tour will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the spots 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. RI Center for Photographic Arts is on the 2nd floor of a building without an elevator, and Anahid Ypres Art Studio is on the 3rd floor of the same building.

  • 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!