Celebrity Guided Tours

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. This summer, 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!

March 18:

CELEBRITY TOUR + THEME:
This month's celebrity tour guide, Karen Adams is an award-winning anchor at Eyewitness News now celebrating over twenty years with WPRI-TV and Fox Providence. [Karen's Celebrity Tour starts from One Regency Plaza at 5:30 pm.]

Her broadcast career began in radio news, but she quickly moved into television news. Her extensive background in television includes reporting, anchoring and management as a news director at television stations in Missouri, Maryland and North Carolina.

She received an honorary doctorate from New England Tech and was bestowed a doctor of humane letters degree.
During her years in broadcasting, Karen has won many awards for her work including the coveted boston.emmyonline.org/ for individual achievement in anchoring for all of New England. She also has another Emmy as part of an Overall Team Effort on coverage of a Breaking News Story. She’s had numerous Emmy nominations and is the recipient of many Associated Press
awards for outstanding reporting and feature stories.

Call us at 401 490-2042 for more info.

The Wickenden Loop Hosts the Wickenden Loop Raffle! Sign up for our monthly raffle when you visit one of the galleries or museum on this route during Gallery Night. Increase your chances by visiting all four of our Wickenden spots!  

This month, our raffle prize is woodblock print by historic Rhode Island artist Edna Martin!! We will draw the winner the Friday after Gallery Night. All prizes are from the Wickenden neighborhood.

Dates for 2010

March 18

April 15

May 20

June 17

July 15

August 19

September 16

October 21

NOVEMBER 18