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!

July 18 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 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.

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

July 18 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.

This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Irene Yibirin (fluent in English, Spanish, & French) and will be via trolley or mini coach. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • RI Center for Photographic Arts. cu.rat.or: (noun) an artist, partially hidden, is an exhibit of several local curators from the area’s leading exhibition spaces. As they come together to show their own photography, this show explores the work of those who primarily promote the work of others.

  • The Map Center at the Mills is a shared studio space that features globes, atlases, road maps, nautical charts & more, festooned with geographic depictions from around the world. The evening will feature antique original maps of New England, reproductions of historical maps from the Ottoman Empire & several very special pieces in the collection from the US Air Force.

  • James Polisky Silkscreen Art. James Polisky creates limited edition & one of a kind hand-printed silkscreens of primarily character driven subjects, blending his original drawings & designs with color separation backgrounds. This is a vist to the artist's studio!

  • Studio Hop is a local studio & shop specializing in contemporary fine art, hand crafts, jewelry, ceramics, & clothing. This month, check out new still life paintings by artist John Rufo!

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. RI Center for Photographic Arts is on the 2nd floor of a building with no elevator.

  • 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!

Thank you to all who attended June 20 Gallery Night!

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Gallery Night Guide Irene Yibirin leads the 6:30 pm trolley tour!

Thank you to everyone who attended or participated in June 20 Gallery Night!

It was a fun night, with 5 guided tours traveling to all different neighborhoods in Providence. Outside of the guided tours, galleries had many people who stopped by on their own to enjoy the art and meet new artists.

People came from all over Rhode Island. We had some out-of-state visitors as well, from Connecticut, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Georgia. We even had one visitor from Korea!

Enjoy some photos and tidbits below from just a few of the different spaces that participated in Gallery Night that evening!

The three photos above are from the 6:30 pm tour. This tour stopped at La Galería del Barrio, a newer gallery in Providence. Located inside the Southside Cultural Center (SCCRI) on Broad Street, this is Providence’s first urban art gallery dedicated sorely to the art of Latinx, Afro-Latino and Indigenous-Latinx art. Pictured in the middle photo is Rene Gomez, whose work was on display that evening - check out our interview with him right here!

The two photos above are from Galerie le Domaine at Domain Properties, which is both a real estate office and and an art gallery! In the second photo, artist Jamie Murphy Hlynsky is pictured discussing her work that’s on display to the folks from the Gallery Night trolley tour. Below, photos from The Gallery at City Hall, part of the 5:45 pm walking tour. Participants enjoy artwork from Olive the Giant (Quinn Bryan) and Jaclyn Tomasso. This show is on view through August 11 - learn more here.

Below, photos from the Gallery at Sprout CoWorking. Curated by Kelly Brown, this was a group show of work by Sam Sparling, Vesna Longton, and Ruth Hauzinger.

And photos below from the WaterFire Arts Center. Folks enjoyed the exhibit When I Get Home, a moving month-long group exhibition by the 2023-2024 WaterFire Accelerate Cohort. Folks from the Gallery Night tours as well as anyone who stopped by on their own also got to enjoy live music, sips and snacks, and bubbles on the roof as part of TroopTop Thursdays.

And a few more photos from the night!

Spotlight on...Rene Gomez!

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La Galería del Barrio, located in Southside Cultural Center on Broad Street opened earlier this spring, and we are pleased to announce that the Galleria will be part of our June 20 Gallery Night.  

We asked Rene Gomez, one of the artists with pieces in the opening exhibit, "A Soulful Sazón," a bit about the new gallery, his art, and baseball. To read more about Rene and see a gallery of his work, visit RI Latino Artists • Rene Gómez (rilatinoarts.org).

Q: You work both as a mural artist and as a painter on a smaller scale.  What are the main differences in the process and do you prefer one more than the other?

I enjoy both murals and paintings and always see in my eyes my canvas paintings as potential murals being painted on walls. But my canvas paintings usually have a more meaningful connection with me since they have a connection with my life experiences. The primary challenge when creating a mural lies in scaling the artwork accurately. Various techniques, including freehand rendering and projector assistance, are available for this purpose plus many more methods. Personally, I employ a European-style method that suits my workflow in creating murals. I utilize the gridding method on my paintings when creating from sketch to canvas.

Q: Congratulations on being part of the opening exhibit at La Galería del Barrio.  What are your thoughts about La Galleria del Barrio being one of the first - if not the first - gallery on Broad Street in Providence?

The establishment of a gallery dedicated to showcasing the remarkable artwork within the Hispanic community, particularly in the region where I have resided for the entirety of my life South Providence is meaningful. This space "La Galería del Barrio" is providing a platform to illuminate the richness of beauty and creativity of many artists in the local area and Rhode Island.

Q: You have a couple of portraits of baseball players in the opening exhibit.  Are you a baseball fan?  What is your team?  

A: I have been crafting paintings inspired by my personal experiences and journey, particularly focusing on my upbringing, which involved actively watching baseball games and participating in Little League and Senior League baseball, as well as avidly collecting baseball cards during my teen years. Currently, I am engaged in developing a series depicting iconic figures from the New York Yankees, rendered in a pop art style within the format reminiscent of baseball cards. Following this project, I intend to pivot towards capturing the essence of Boston Red Sox legends. I'm still a Boston Red Sox fan; the 2004 team is my favorite because my dad got to see them win the championship before he passed away in 2007.

June 20 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 Irene Yibirin (fluent in English and Spanish!) and will be via trolley or mini coach. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • La Galería del Barrio | PVD. Located inside the Southside Cultural Center (SCCRI) on Broad Street, La Galería del Barrio is Providence's first urban art gallery dedicated solely to the art of Latinx, Afro-Latino and Indigenous-Latinx art. Gallery curator Marta V. Martínez with support from David Sánchez of SCC, brings the best in local art and artists to showcase Rhode Island's position as a true art mecca.

  • The Gallery at Sprout CoWorking. The Gallery at Sprout CoWorking is proud to present a group show from Sam Sparling, Vesna Longton, and Ruth Hauzinger. This exhibit is a multimedia showcase of organic forms, works and shapes that show us the beauty in life through these three different and unique perspectives.

  • WaterFire Arts Center. When I Get Home, a month-long group exhibition by the 2023-2024 WaterFire Accelerate Cohort, features the works of Kannetha Brown, Sydney Darrow, Emily Gray, Andrea Pascual, Adolfo Peralta, and Leiyana Simone Pereira. Ranging across a wide variety of media, these six artists are united by their collective interests in their roots, grief and growth. Exploring the human condition and connection, When I Get Home provides a space for all to commemorate the self, family, and loved ones. Also enjoy sips, snacks, and live music as part of the weekly Thursday Night TroopTop celebration!

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!

June 20 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 Sam Nehila and will be via trolley or mini coach. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • Galerie le Domaine at Domain Properties presents the work of Jamie Murphy Hlynsky, American painter and collage artist. With a background as a professional illustrator and propmaker, she also works in the fine arts with her paintings and collages, with many of her works being exhibited in several museums, galleries, and private collections.

  • 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!

  • Visit AS220 Project Space to explore Studio Interior: Variation by Ida Schmulowitz and Filipinas by Hannah Liongoren in the Reading Room. Studio Interior: Variation shows interior-influenced compositions that are symbolic of adaptations in an ever changing dance capturing light and movement. In Filipinas, Liongoren blends semi autobiographical comic storytelling and sculptural objects to provide a vessel for the emotions, struggles, and triumphs of preserving a Filipina identity.

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!

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!

June 20 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 Danielle Wolfrum and will be via trolley or mini coach. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

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

  • Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island. Dining in the Diaspora is a group exhibition by the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island about food, tradition, and welcoming folks to their literal and proverbial tables. Throughout two thousand years of exile the cuisine and customs of the Jewish diaspora have both influenced and been influenced by the cultures of their neighbors everywhere in the world in an ever-evolving culinary conversation. This exhibition is an opportunity to share stories of food, diaspora, and art about the act of welcoming, featuring the work of 20 local artists.

  • Paper Nautilus. Baiting Hollow at Paper Nautilus features collaborative and individual artworks by Kate Salke and Sylvia Atwood. The artists use found materials such as couch cushions and rock slabs as surfaces for oil pastel drawings and sculptural compositions. Gravity and levity unite in a curious puzzle of repeating forms, exploring permanence and passage.

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!

June 20 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.

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

  • Asterfields. Asterfields is an independent design house where art meets life, celebrating the intersection of craft, color, and creativity. The studio designs products to be lived in, treasured, and worn out, and strives to inspire self-expression and celebrate the individuality of their customers. On view this month, founder Nicole Deponte’s work and oil paintings by artist Holly Wach.

  • Art in the Atrium First U. Art in the Atrium, a program focused on inspiring the community by presenting work by artists with diverse viewpoints, is holding their 2024 Member Show. The theme and the works in this exhibition will explore the Unitarian Universalist Principles.

  • AS220 Main Gallery. AS220 Main Gallery presents Sueña Conmigo by Jessica Reyes and Growing Pains by Callie Mulahey. Sueña Conmigo reflects the motivations of creation while enduring hardships of immigration and navigating cultural heritage. Reyes shares their interdisciplinary practice of tattooing and mixed media arts influenced by their indigenous Guatemalan roots. In Growing Pains, Mulahey presents a series of paintings and ceramic vessels illustrating a “quarter life crisis” marked by second guessing, unlearning, daydreaming, and healing, using nature and personal experiences to show the challenges of personal and creative growth.

  • AS220 Aborn Gallery. At the AS220 Aborn Gallery, experience Fox’s Wedding, a group exhibit that brings together the figurative and abstract works of Julian MacMillian, Amanda Grey, and Ashley Pelletier. Their work sparks conversation between visual languages and the history of painting through bold uses of color and shared themes on memory and emotion.

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!

Thank you to all who attended May 16 Gallery Night!

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Thank you to everyone who attended or participated in May 16 Gallery Night! The weather rallied, with the rain stopping and the sun coming out, in time for Gallery Night. It was a great night, with 5 full or nearly full tours, and many folks visiting individual galleries on their own. There were many repeat visitors - Gallery Night veterans, so to speak - but also a lot of first-timers!

In total, we had at least 783 people attending Gallery Night, including folks from all over Rhode Island, plus some out-of-state visitors as well, from Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, and Texas!

Enjoy some photos from just a few of the different spaces that participated in Gallery Night that evening, plus quotes from particpants, below.

“Lovely to spend time exploring new spaces with happy people. Our tour guide, Irene, had great energy & Al, board president, was so kind and welcoming. While we have lived in RI for many years, we’ve never been in these places & Gallery Night Providence opened up artists, art, & our community to us. Special thank you too to James Polinsky, silkscreening artist, for being present in his studio & sharing his process. It was sweet to be in a trolley too!”
— Meghan, 6 pm Trolley Tour
“I enjoyed the tour a lot and most enjoyed Quinn Bryan and Jaclyn Tomasso’s work at City Hall. Jenn is a fabulous tour guide, energetic and knowledgeable about art and Providence. Great mix of walking and trolley due to the inclement weather. Lots of fun!”
— Grace, 5 pm Walking tour
“I loved the opportunity to hear from the makers. Irene was fantastic at introducing us to the locations and getting everybody comfortable in the new environment. ”
— Charles, 6 pm Trolley tour

May 16 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 Frank Toti and will be via trolley or mini coach. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • The Gallery at Sprout CoWorking. Sprout is pleased to present “All In!” This is a group show of 17 high school students from grades 9 through 12 who are part of the “Arts Academy” course at Bishop Hendricken High School. The work shows a wide range of media and themes and is primarily self-driven from the interests and explorations of the students. Some of the art students and their art teacher will be present for the opening on Gallery Night!

  • URI at RIC Alex and Ani Hall. “The Gift of Art to the State of Rhode Island” presented by the University of Rhode Island, features more than 250 artworks from K-12 students throughout the state. This mixed media exhibit gathers work from public and charter schools, with the honored selection of Coventry Public Schools to add 9 works to the permanent collection, due to their extraordinary work integrating the arts into the curriculum across disciplines.

  • Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College. The Bannister Gallery presents its annual exhibition of work from graduating seniors of the Art department, including studio concentrations such as ceramics, metalsmithing, painting, printmaking, graphic design, and many more mediums. This exhibit displays the wide variety of degrees earned through the department.

  • WaterFire Arts Center. “Sculpting Silent Narratives: My Love Letters." Janice Lardey’s exhibit is a 2024 Interlace Project Grant Awardee, using fabric and an immersive maze set up explores her distinct textural and artistic style. She creates abstract depictions of women from several generations of her family on the fabric, exploring their likeness and narratives on the fabric.

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!

May 16 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 and will be via trolley or mini coach. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • James Politsky Silkscreen Art Studio. James Polisky creates limited edition and one of a kind hand-printed silkscreens, blending his original drawings and designs with a color separation background. His body of work is mostly character driven, showing views of monotonic bliss or desperate uncertainty, blanketed by an appreciation of the greatness and power of the everyday to encourage you to stop and think.

  • Studio Hop. Studio Hop is a local studio and shop specializing in contemporary fine art, hand crafts, jewelry, ceramics, and clothing. This month, new paintings by Ann-Marie Gillett and R. Sawan White!

  • 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 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!

May 16 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 Larisa Martino and will be via trolley or mini coach. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • 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 after the collective experience of a worldwide pandemic, we now understand how real this concept is. His multi-colored assemblages use continuous lines and interlocking shapes to explore our own interdependence.

  • AS220 Project Space presents “Fragments,” an investigation of displacement, identity, and rituals within the multidisciplinary practice of Masha Ryskin. Expressed with attention to footprints and stains, this collection of work alludes to shifts in memory and history within the temporal quality of human experiences. In the Reading Room, “Forest of Magic '' by Vensa Longton, explores the intersection between who we are and our surroundings, and encourages moments of discovery through inner self connections and our interconnectedness with nature.

  • The Gallery at 134 Collaborative / Mathewson Street Church presents PHOTOGRAPHY by Catherine Ibern, exploring her work and unique take on the medium. Ibern uses photography to look at the world through a different lens, capturing the beauty of life from different angles. Through her work, Ibern invites viewers to look at the world through her lens and experience her deep appreciation for it

  • Art in the Atrium First U. Art in the Atrium, a program focused on inspiring the community by presenting work by artists with diverse viewpoints, is holding their 2024 Member Show. The theme and the works in this exhibition will explore the Unitarian Universalist Principles.

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!

May 16 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 Jenn Wilson.

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.

  • AS220 Main Gallery. The Main Gallery at AS220 presents two exhibits this May. In “Still,” Anthony Medeiros presents a series of expressive paintings conveying untold narratives of grief, confusion and longing. Utilizing practices of collage and iridescent paint, “Still” unveils characters within the works and its viewers. Robert Snowden presents a series of paintings influenced by tribal and skeletal themes. Through a process reflecting on appearances and emotion, “Your Mask” is a product of childlike intuition uncovering the inherent masks that everyone holds.

  • AS220 Aborn Gallery. At the Aborn Gallery, Madison Emond presents a series of medium-format color images captured during their Fullbright Fellowship in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, with the Kaiwharawhara stream. “Field Notes from Kaiwharawhara” encourages meaningful connections through psychedelic beauty.

  • RI Center for Photographic Arts. “Behind the Photograph,” explores the role of Artificial Intelligence in image making, asking early adopters of AI based imaging to show what this technology is and what is possible. Through this exhibit, viewers and artists are encourages to embrace AI imaging’s growing presence in our life and explore the concept of “fakes.” In tandem with this exhibit, “Guardians of Arcadia: Jim Bremer,” uses photo illustration to create images of Arcadia, a pastoral paradise and the women guardians who oversee it. Brem’s work focuses on creating something larger than life that provokes wonder about the production process in the viewer.

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.

  • 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!

May 16 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.

This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Rosemary Rocchio with Guest Guide Michael Rose will be via trolley or mini coach. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • The Armenian Historical Association of Rhode Island (AHARI) explores the vibrancy of the Armenian community through the over 200 food-related businesses established and run by Armenians. With these companies, this still thriving piece of history is explored in their museum to highlight the contributions of the Armenian community to the state of Rhode Island.

  • Galerie le Domaine at Domain Properties presents the work of Jamie Murphy Hlynsky, American painter and collage artist. With a background as a professional illustrator and propmaker, she also works in the fine arts with her paintings and collages, with many of her works being exhibited in several museums, galleries, and private collections.

  • The Chazan Gallery at Wheeler showcases contemporary art for local, regional, and national artists to provide the opportunity to display their artwork and engage with the local community. The gallery will be presenting the last day of their All School Show, exhibiting the work of students of all ages.

  • The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University presents a comprehensive survey exhibition of artist Barbara T. Smith. An innovator within the performance art movement of the late 1960s, Smith has long produced work that explores the self, sexuality, gender roles, physical and spiritual sustenance, love, life, and death. Assembling an expansive range of artwork and performance-related ephemera, the exhibition will survey Smith’s bold experimentation.

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!

Thank you to all who attended April 18 Gallery Night!

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Spring is in the air...on our last Gallery Night, we had April showers!

Between our 5 guided tours and folks who visited the galleries and exhibits on their own, we had at least 300 people attend this Gallery Night…some of whom braved the weather for a walking tour to galleries in the downtown area!

More than 20 people joined Gallery Night Guide Frank Toti on a walking tour of downtown art spaces, including stops at the AS220 Main, Aborn, and Project Space Galleries and the BankRI TurksHead Gallery, and discussions about public art and architecture.

We had folks attend Gallery Night from Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, and all the way from Illinois, Texas, South Carolina, and Virginia, not to mention from cities and towns throughout Rhode Island!

“Our tour guide (Frank) was excellent. Learning about the history of Providence and the buildings was very enlightening. Enjoyed the murals-they are spectacular. The locations we visited were very interesting.”
— Richard, 5 pm Tour Attendee
“I was at the very first Gallery Night - the Providence Art Trolley - hop on, hop off. Tonight I like the guided interaction with the tour guides, curators, artists, and gallery staff. I LOVE bringing friends to Gallery Night for the first time. I also enjoy the camaraderie among guests on the trolley coaches. I’ve made friends on the trolleys.”
— Lee, 5:30 tour
“Gathering with friends and learning about local area artists, history, and culture. (I’m relatively new to RI — two years — and still exploring…)”
— Susan, 6 pm tour attendee

Spotlight on...Sara Ladds!

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This month our spotlight is on textile designer Sara Ladds. She will give a short presentation on her work during the 6 pm tour's stop at Kreatelier, and tour-goers will be able to ask questions and browse the fabric and wallpaper showroom. You can also visit Kreatelier on your own anytime between 6 and 8 pm on April 18 Gallery Night.

Q: You were trained at RISD as a graphic designer. What's the difference for you between designing on paper vs. fabric?

A: As a graphic designer, one uses information to create a design with a specific message, such as a poster or a book cover. There are choices in type, image, and color which are arranged on a given dimension to inform. The similarities between graphic design and fabric design are the designing of similar elements such as pattern, color, and size/dimension on a flat, two-dimensional plane. But fabric is a moving, pliable medium that takes into consideration light, shape, function, style, trends, taste, etc. It has a longer presence where graphic design has a short window of purpose. And when it comes to interior fabrics, the fabric is part of a complex array of other elements such as rugs, artwork, furniture, etc. and they all need to "talk" to one another as a unified group. If it's done correctly.

Q: Art and design are often used interchangeably.  Is there a distinction?

A: I am of the opinion that yes, there is a distinction. Art is an expression of the soul. It comes from a place of having something to say and the artist completely drives what is said and how it's conveyed. Design has a purpose. To communicate and inform (graphic design), to be functional (industrial/furniture design), to live in society (fashion, architecture design), and so on. There are many designers who are artists and artists who are designers in both life and work. The two principles can intertwine and there are a few who have mastered it brilliantly. But for me, there is a distinction in the "why" something is created which separates art from design.

Q: Do you have  a favorite palette?  A favorite design or one  that you're most proud of? 

A: I love color! It's the number one driving force in how I design. I have always gravitated towards the warmer hues - red, orange, pink - but my new collection is with a lot of blues and greens. Whatever the color, I tend to go for a lot of saturation. I would say one of my favorite patterns is the "Peony" pattern. It's graphic and soft in style, bold, and colorful. 

More about Sara Ladds Design:

Sara Ladds Design was launched in early 2015 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island. The collections combine a particular style of bold pattern and vibrant color with attention to proportion and balance. Sara Ladds Design uses eco-friendly printing methods, including water-based pigment ink, regional production and sustainably sourced materials and all fabrics are produced in the USA. 

More about Sara Ladds:

Sara Ladds grew up in New York City where fashion, art, architecture, and culture influenced her sense of style and design. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design, Sara spent many years as an award-winning graphic designer. She was owner of Bachleitner Design and in 2005 she became the art director at Brown University. In 2012 she moved out of Providence to the beautiful coastal town of Little Compton where she began to rethink her life’s work and decided to fulfill a long-time dream of being a textile designer. Thus Sara Ladds Design was born and one need not look far to see how Sara’s years as a graphic designer has strongly influenced her textiles. Her attention to detail and color are complemented by bold, graphic patterns and her work offers a strong and refreshing addition to the world of residential textiles. 

April 18 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 Bradly VanDerStad and will be via trolley or mini coach. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

  • David Winton Bell Gallery. The Bell Gallery at Brown University presents a comprehensive survey exhibition of artist Barbara T. Smith. An innovator within the performance art movement of the late 1960s, Smith has long produced work that explores the self, sexuality, gender roles, physical and spiritual sustenance, love, life, and death. Assembling an expansive range of artwork and performance-related ephemera, the exhibition will survey Smith’s bold experimentation. 

  • RI Center for Photographic Arts. “George DeWolfe & Friends Lasting Landscapes - Lasting Influences” is the second in a series of exhibitions providing an updated look at landscape photography in the 21st century. This show gathers a collection of photographers that were influenced by DeWolfe and his contemplative approach to making photographs of the landscape.

  • WaterFire Arts Center. The month-long exhibition “ART is Everywhere: Art Inc., A Rhode Island PBS Exhibition” brings the essence of Rhode Island PBS’ short-video series ART inc. from the screen to the gallery. Some of the series' episodes will be played in the gallery as part of the exhibition as well as artwork and objects from about 7-10 artists/creatives featured in the film series. Delving into the heart of human expression, the series illuminates the transformative power of art—from its ability to soothe and inspire to its role as a catalyst for societal change.

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!