Calendar & Celebrity Guides
Celebrity Guided Tours offer the public a chance to mix and mingle with people who care deeply about art. Guides run the gamut from the curators and academics who shape opinions about art to the artists whose life's work is giving form to their passion. Take a tour and follow in the footsteps of someone who thinks a lot about art and enhance your personal point of view.

May 15

Next 2008 Event:

Join us for a very special May Gallery Night in which Daisy Nuovo, from El Planeta Newspaper and her co-worker and art lover, Luis Velez will lead a bilingual (Spanish/English) tour of Providence art spots. Nancy Whipple Grinnell, Curator of the Newport Art Museum and Art Association will also lead a tour of galleries.

Born in Quito, Ecuador, Daisy Novoa is an executive at HNP Media, publisher of El Planeta Newspaper - the largest Hispanic Newspaper of New England. Daisy has a long standing interest in the arts, nurtured by her education in South Korea and her world travel. She has visited many countries in Asia, Europe, North, Central and South America and Africa and has spent time exploring different cultures and forms of artistic expression. One of her goals at her work is to be a liaison between the artistic community of Rhode Island and the Hispanic public at large.

Luis Velez, editor of El Planeta, was a judge in Columbia before he came to the United States in the 1970’s. Velez’s interest in the arts has prompted him to begin organizing the city’s Latin artists. He is the author of a book on the Hispanic history of Boston and he is planning a similar work on Providence.

Nancy Whipple Grinnell is Curator of the Newport Art Museum and Art Association in Rhode Island, where she organizes both historical and contemporary exhibitions. She holds a BA in art history, an MLS in library science and recently received her MA in American Civilization/Museum Studies from Brown University. She has worked as a museum curator for fifteen years and was the co-curator for the traveling exhibition Envisioning New England, Treasures from Community Art Museums as well as the author of one of the catalogue essays. Grinnell has also organized exhibitions for dozens of the region' s living artists and written critically of their work.

2008

May15
June 19
July 17
August 21
September 18
October16
November 20

NEW THIS YEAR:
Special theme evenings.
Lectures, demonstrations and guided tours on specific themes including:

Furniture & Design
Folk Art
Photography
Contemporary Painting
Modern and Historic Architecture
Art Glass
Recycling

In addition, Gallery Night presents a unique evening of instruction and tips on how to Design Your Home with Art. As always, we end the season in November with our one-of-a-kind art shopping tour.

Walking tours (unless noted otherwise) start from Citizen's Plaza at 6 pm and 6:30 pm and last about an hour. Tour will include stops at various galleries.