6:00 pm Trolley or Mini Coach Art Tour! with Gallery Night Providence

We will leave at 6:00 pm from the The Graduate at 11 Dorrance Street in Providence, and finish our tour at that same location around 8:00 pm. This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Danielle Wolfrum. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:

AS220 Project Space presents Scrappy, an exhibition by Linsey Wallace that incorporates sculpture, installation, performance and video to explore class disparity, connectivity and ecology. The artist’s use of personal storytelling and somatic gestures seeks to activate the liminal space between physicality, impression, collective memory and imagination.

AS220 Reading Room presents Peonies by Roger Williams — a series of acrylic paintings and sculptures that explore moments of softness and vulnerability.

The Avenue Concept presents A Season of Ripples: A Public Art Infusion — a group exhibition showcasing over 50 Rhode Island-based artists, opening on October 16 at the TAC Paintbar Gallery. The Ripples Project included the painting of 50 utility boxes and five large-scale murals throughout Providence between 2024 and 2025. The exhibit showcases all RIPPLES art pieces as part of our project-end celebration.

E.M. Bannister Gallery presents In Bannister’s Footsteps: A Contemporary Journey, a continuation of a series of community projects initiated by The Bannister Community Art Project (BCAP). Since 2021, BCAP has worked to engage with communities and foster cross-cultural relationships and conversations. This exhibition highlights five contemporary artists, Shawndavid Berry, Doug Cowan, Darrel Perkins, Ponnapa Prakkamakul, and Michael Talbot, whose work reimagines and celebrates the life and legacy of prominent nineteenth-century Providence artist (and the gallery’s namesake) Edward Mitchell Bannister.

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 spots are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask for a donation (minimum of $1) when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time. Your donations help keep Gallery Night going!

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:

• 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 or WaterFire Arts Center 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be inside with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!
• We do have a limited number of seats on the tour! If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.
• Tours occasionally run late depending on traffic. 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!

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