| Celebrity
Guided Tours + Events
The tours start from One Regency Plaza at 5:30 and
leave every half hour until 7.
five tours offered each
Gallery Night : Hop on an Art Bus at the
Regency to visit contemporary art, emerging artists, artisan shops,
international art, traditional/historic, or educational galleries.
Enjoy a private
two-hour guided tour for FREE. The first bus leaves One Regency Plaza at
5:30, two leave at 6:00, one at 6:30, and one at 7:00.
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.
Walking tours (unless noted otherwise)
start from Regency Place at
6 pm and 6:30 pm and last about an hour. Tour will include
stops at various galleries.
A typical Gallery Night tour might include a conversation with
RISD president John Maeda or Channel 12
anchorwoman Karen Adams. Speak with Newport artist
Robert Kalaidjian about the artists exhibiting at the Providence
Art Club. Sip coffee with John Tessitore, Executive Editor
of the Carnegie Council, New York City, on your way from
one Wickenden Street gallery to the next. And if the latest trends
in art mystify you, spend an evening with artist Nuam Panovsky
talking about the social and political content of today's
contemporary art. Whether you like traditional art on the wall or
prefer a more contemporary interpretation, Gallery Night Celebrity
Tours will expand your art horizons.
All in all, the Celebrity Tours are a lively and stimulating alternative
to choosing your own route. Sculptor Kenn Speiser
takes you on a mid-summer walk downtown, challenging you
to see the artistry, accidental and intentional, vibrating in the
urban landscape. Visit with Trinity Rep's artistic director
Curt Columbus or managing director of Rites and
Reason theatre, Karen Allen Baxter as they bring the dramatist's
perspective to the distinctive artistic offerings of the city's
best galleries. Listen to historian Nancy Austin
as she shares her perspective on the past, present and future of
the visual arts in Providence.
Join us each and every Gallery Night for thoughtful original guides
and innovative exhibits. It's fun, it's inspiring and it's free! |
November
17
Celebrity Guide: Frank Toti,
playwright, director, and actor will be leading our very
special annual shopping tour.
Frank has an MA in History from Catholic University and an MFA
in Theatre Performance and Society from Rhode Island College. He
is a dramaturg, playwright, director and actor.
He has recently written and produced three plays written from oral
history gathered in the community focused on the Homeless Community,
Women Survivors of the Holocaust and the Rhode Island's older LGBTQ
community. Frank teaches Western Civilization, World History,
Art History, and Theatre History at RIC, JWU and RWU.
Before Toti’s successful career in the theater, he was a
retail whiz and the perfect choice to lead an art
shopping tour!
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