5:30 pm Trolley or Mini Coach Art Tour! with Gallery Night Providence

Spend the last Gallery Night of the season with us! We will leave at 5:30 pm from the Graduate Hotel, and return to the Graduate around 7:30 pm. This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Rex M. Blumenthal and will visit the following locations and exhibits:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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?
• 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.

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.

Reserving Multiple Tickets? Eventbrite requires you to make a separate reservation for each ticket. Each time you put in an order, it's only for one ticket (even if you choose to donate more than $1). For example, tickets for 3 people would be 3 separate orders, each with a $1 donation.

Accessibility notes:

• Anahid Ypres Art Studio and RI Center for Photographic Arts are not wheelchair accessable :(
• 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 on our website) 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.

We have other guided tours the same night! Go to our Eventbrite Organizer Page and scroll down, the other tours will be listed under "Upcoming Events."

You can also discover more about Gallery Night Providence on our website.

And before you go...

We are a non-profit organization, and we depend on the generosity of individuals and businesses in the community to continue to present Gallery Night as a FREE event!

If you want to support us, you can donate at this link. Donate at least $10, mention it at check in on Gallery Night, and we'll offer you a Gallery Night tote bag as a token of our appreciation. Every little bit helps us invest in the creative community here in Providence and show people some of the incredible art that Providence has to offer!

THANK YOU!

Host or Publisher Gallery Night Providence