Gallery Night Providence, June

Visitors are invited to June’s Gallery Night on Thursday, June 15, 2023.

On the third Thursday of the month (March – November), Gallery Night Providence (GNP) curates multiple timed trolley and mini coach tours organized with partner galleries. All are welcome to explore the galleries on their own too, GNP Galleries, or see what GNP has put together for monthly suggestions to ‘Make Your Own Tour‘.

This month, Thursday, June 15, two of Gallery Night Providence’s trolley tours will leave the WFAC, one at 5:00 p.m. and one at 6:30 p.m. The 6:30 pm tour will be a bilingual art tour in English and Spanish visiting family-friendly art spaces. This tour is made possible by a grant from the Rhode Island Foundation. Free parking is available in the WaterFire Arts Center parking lot and attached ALCO parking lots.

The 5:00 pm art tour will visit three art spaces, The Gallery at Sprout CoWorking presenting the annual members show for South Coast Artists and 50 Sims with The Steel Yard presenting “A Legacy of Collecting,” an exhibition and first-ever sale from the private collection of Dr. Joseph A. Chazan, before returning to the WaterFire Arts Center gallery to experience “If These Walls Could Talk” in the gallery, a group exhibition by the 2022-2023 WaterFire Accelerate Artist Cohort: Denzel Amoah, Justin DeGraide, Savaree “Sav” Hazard-Chaney, Hannah Nahas, Rhue Nobre, and Elijah Trice. Reserve a spot for this 5:00 pm tour leaving from the WFAC.

The 6:30 pm bilingual art tour, in English and Spanish, will visit four family-friendly art spaces. Buena Gráfica Social Studio a communication studio that creates inclusive strategies that make our community stronger, LUMUKU at Innovation District Park with “A Breath of Fresh Air”, a collection of giant, friendly cartoons all having fun in District Park, BIG NAZO LAB’s “Space Transformation Station” Mill-Rocket Studio, before returning to the WaterFire Arts Center gallery to experience “If These Walls Could Talk” in the gallery, a group exhibition by the 2022-2023 WaterFire Accelerate Artist Cohort: Denzel Amoah, Justin DeGraide, Savaree “Sav” Hazard-Chaney, Hannah Nahas, Rhue Nobre, and Elijah Trice. Reserve a spot for this 5:00 pm tour leaving from the WFAC.

El recorrido de las 6:30 será un recorrido bilingüe guiado y GRATUITO a lo largo de espacios de arte de Providence, en inglés y español. El recorrido es apto para familias y estará dirigido por Shannon Hadfield, con Irene Yibirin como traductora y guía invitada. Este recorrido es posible gracias a una subvención de la Fundación Rhode Island. El recorrido se inicia y concluye en el Centro de Artes WaterFire, y hará las siguientes paradas: Parque de Innovación, con “Un Soplo de Aire Fresco” de LUMUKU. Esta es una colección de dibujos animados gigantes y amigables que se divierten en District Park. Buena Gráfica es un estudio de diseño de comunicación enfocado en crear estrategias que buscan fortalecer nuestra comunidad. Mill-Rocket Studio de la “Estación de transformación espacial” BIG NAZO LAB, donde podrías conocer a algunos extraterrestres teatrales. WaterFire Arts Center presenta “Si estas paredes hablaran”, una exposición grupal de un mes de duración de la Cohorte de Artistas WaterFire Accelerate 2022-2023. La exposición es una muestra de arte de medios mixtos que muestra una colección de cautivadoras obras basadas en el arte de contar historias. Cada pieza explora el poder de las narrativas visuales e invita a los espectadores a aventurarse en un viaje a través de la imaginación de los artistas.

Visit gallerynight.org to learn more on all their available trolley & mini coach tours, on the third Thursday of each month, including reserving your spot ahead of time on the timed tours.

On view in the WFAC gallery —from Thursday, June 1 through Sunday, July 9, 2023— is “If These Walls Could Talk”, a month-long group exhibition by the 2022-2023 WaterFire Accelerate Artist Cohort: Denzel Amoah, Justin DeGraide, Savaree “Sav” Hazard-Chaney, Hannah Nahas, Rhue Nobre, and Elijah Trice. The exhibition is a mixed media art show that showcases a collection of captivating artworks based on the art of storytelling. Each piece explores the power of visual narratives and invites viewers to embark on a journey through the artist’s imagination. Learn more about the exhibition, here: waterfire.org/ifthesewallscouldtalk.

The WaterFire Arts Center store + gallery hours are Wednesday – Sunday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., and open late every Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.