Join us this month! We will leave at 5:15 pm from the Graduate Hotel, and return to the Graduate around 7:15 pm. This is a walking tour, so make sure you wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather! The tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Rex Blumenthal and will visit the following locations and exhibits:
The Gallery at City Hall presents Cerca de la Cerca — a two-part community art project with students from the Mary Fogarty School, an elementary school in South Providence that is currently awaiting the construction of a new building. Tape Artists Michael Townsend and Leah Smith worked with 5th graders to create life-sized self-portraits out of tape and install those self-portraits along the fence around the construction site for what will become their new school building in the fall of 2026.
David Winton Bell Gallery presents ojo|-|ólǫ́, a solo exhibition by Diné (Navajo) artist Eric-Paul Riege. Riege’s work, a combination of textile, sculpture, sound, video, and performance, is infused with traditional Diné practices and history. Through this multisensory experience, Riege incites difficult, but important conversations about Indigenous art and sovereignty and the role institutions play in collecting and disseminating Indigenous art and culture.
RISD Museum presents The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea. Through historical and contemporary textiles and images, this installation investigates the complex history of Parsi gara embroideries, which richly combine Indian, Persian, Chinese, and European influences.
And there will be lots of beautiful public art to enjoy along the way!
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 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.