TroopTop Thursdays (TTT) return this week at the WaterFire Arts Center as part of the Gallery Night Providence trolley tours. Every third Thursday of the month, from April to August, visitors are invited to experience the current exhibit as the sun sets on the TroopTop Deck, from 5pm to 9pm, with TroopPVD providing food and …
(8.16) Art abhors a vacuum and RISD students have kept this blank pillar well-papered. But on the third Thursday of every month eighteen of the city’s hottest “art spots” open their doors for a visual arts party. (Maybe this pillar should be on the tour.) You can take a free guided Art Bus tour or …
(3.19) A new season of Gallery Night Providence kicks off tonight. Some new galleries have been added to the route, including Peter Miller Fine Art at 118 South Main Street, 2nd floor. Seen here is a piece from ‘New Perspectives and Natural Intensity’ which runs through April 11. Bill Van Siclen writes at the ProJo. …
(9.20) Providence Gallery Night continues, but September is the last month of 2012 for the bike tours. We have curator Ian Alden Russell form the Bell Gallery, and photographer Erik Gould and artist Eric Carlson as guides. Bring your helmet. If you don’t feel like pedaling to your favorite gallery, take a bus tour. Six …
The humidity should be humanly tolerable by Thursday night so head downtown for Gallery Night: 25 galleries, three busses and celebrity tour guides Bob Dilworth and Fran Gorman. Bob Dilworth received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1973 and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in …
(6.21) Find the breeze this Thursday 5pm to 9 pm on Gallery Night. Take the heat off in the air-conditioned galleries or feel the wind in your face on one of our bike tours. Either way, it’s a fun and free way to get cool and see the art our creative capital has to offer. …
(3.15) Third Thursdays — the new season of Gallery Night start tonight. Gallery Night Providence opens its 16th season with 25 galleries and museums. We have a wonderful list of guides for the season starting with photographer Stephan Brigidi and the curator for the David Winton Bell Gallery, Ian Alden Russell. Rounding out the field …
AS220‘s public access photography program will once again present the fruits of its collaboration with the Providence Public Library’s Special Collections department with a series of gallery exhibitions scheduled for 2011. Join us for our latest exhibition openings on Gallery Night, Thursday, May 19th and June 16 from 5pm to 9pm for a glimpse of …
Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day in an entirely different way. Head on over to One Regency Plaza in downtown Providence and help kick off Gallery Night Providence’s 15th season. Roving Art buses visit Providence galleries and museums. On the buses guides talk about the art on view and pass out sweet desserts from LaSalle Bakery and …
Maya Allison, curator of recently-shuttered gallery 5 Traverse, is teaming up with photographers Frank Mullin and Magaly Ponce for a silent auction and exhibition to benefit victims of the earthquakes and tsunami that have recently affected Chile, where rural areas were deeply devastated and where winter is coming. The pieces being auctioned come from a …
I reserve the right to write about something twice when it turns out to be totally awesome. I just came back from seeing this thing and it is crazy! It’s a Hummer made out of discarded lottery tickets collected by Brooklyn artists (and RISD grads) Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom. But the show lasts only …