Join us this month! We will leave at 5:00 pm from the Graduate Hotel, and finish our tour at that same location around 7:00 pm. The tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Barbara Zdravesky and will visit the following locations and exhibits:
AS220 Aborn Gallery presents GO ‘HEAD, FIX YOU A PLATE, an exhibition that brings together works by Jazzmen Lee-Johnson, Becci Davis, Jordan Seaberry, and Dominique Sindayiganza. Through prints, paintings, textiles, furniture, animations, and installation, these artists transform AS220’s Aborn Gallery and evoke Black matriarchal home spaces where families gather to party, resist, mourn, organize, and seek respite.
AS220 Main Gallery presents I deserved a better goodbye, an exhibition by John Bhogal. John Bhogal’s creations show the capacity to overcome, to heal and to thrive. Although, today John Bhogal still lives under the pressure of everyday reality, he continues to tattoo and inspire others to self express, finding the light within darkness through paintings.
Rhode Island State Archives presents A Good for the Public: Public Social Welfare in Rhode Island, an exhibition examining the history of State-run institutions and the experiences of those who utilized them. Artifacts and records from these facilities, including physical objects from The Public Archaeology Lab, will accompany the exhibition.
The Avenue Concept presents, This is Us: A Taste of Culture featuring the work of artist, educator, activist, and community leader, Sara Monteiro–SimplySara. Sara’s art celebrates her African/Cape Verdean and African-American heritage through storytelling, while also engaging in important discussions about “race, identity, and purpose.”
134 Collaborative presents Exquisite Corpse, an exhibition of metal works by Calvin Hubbard and David Karoff. Both artists were inspired by the Surrealist practice of creating “Exquisite Corpses,” an exercise in which artists would each take a turn contributing an isolated design on a section of paper to create a fantastical image. Karoff and Hubbard’s metal sculptures, on display in the Black Box Theater, draw from this collaborative, process-oriented, approach to artmaking while also using the material to explore themes of “industrial production, environment, weight, and decay.”
Please note that the AS220 Main and Aborn Galleries are in the same building, and are within a few blocks of the Project Space/Reading Room!
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.