WHEN: Thurs, Sept 16, 5-9 pm!

WHAT: Gallery Night Providence's 14th Season. Join us for a fun-filled cultural extravaganza. Twenty-one galleries, museums, and historic sites; convenient parking lots; live music; refreshments; art buses; celebrity guides and it's all FREE! Special Info center event for this month: ART DEMO BY CONSTANCE ALLEN AT THE REGENCY: Peace Mobiles : paper and mixed media.

NEW THIS SEASON:
Hop on an Art Bus at the Regency for one of five tours offered each Gallery Night organized around specific themes.

TOUR Themes/times/Celebrity Guides:
5:30 pm Bicycle tour led by New Urban Arts director Jason Yoon
5:30 pm  Contemporary/International Gallery Tour led by painter Nilton Cardenas
6 pm University Tour led by writer and jewelry designer Martina Windels
6 pm Emerging/Contemporary Tour led by Firehouse no.13 director Anna Shea
6:30 pm  Historic/Traditional Gallery Tour led by photographer Richard Benjamin
7 pm Artisan, Folk, and Craft Gallery Tour

See below for details. Please Note: these new guided tours replace the continuous bus loops of past seasons.

CELEBRITY GUIDED TOURS: Enjoy a private two-hour guided tour for FREE. The tours start from One Regency Plaza and visit approximately 4 galleries each and run about 2 hours in length.

This month’s celebrities are photographer Richard Benjamin, artist Nilton Cardenas, Firehouse no. 13 director Anna Shea, and writer/jewelry designer Martina Windels.  Art Historian Nancy Austin leads a special tour from the Providence Athenaeum. [more]

The Providence Athenaeum recently rediscovered a five-foot wide photograph of the Coliseum in Rome attributed to the early architectural photographer, Tommaso Cuccioni (d.1864). Cuccioni was especially noted for his exceptional large-format photographs and exhibited these at an early and important 1859 exhibition of art photography in Paris, held alongside the official Salon. This very contemporary photograph was sent from Italy to the Providence Athenaeum in 1860 by Benefit Street expatriate Albert Jenkins Jones (1821-1887), and was displayed for many years hanging in the main gallery of the Athenaeum. It was rediscovered in remote storage in May 2010 by Archivist Catherine Wodehouse.

This colossal early photograph will be on view from September 1-23, 2010 in the Providence Athenaeum’s Philbrick Rare Book Room as the centerpiece of the exhibition, “The Rhode Island Art Association & the Ecology of Culture in Pre-Civil War RI”, guest curated by Nancy Austin. Rediscovering Jones’s 1860 gift allows us to look again at the dawn of the art world in Providence during those fervent seven years before the Civil War.

Please join Celebrity Guide Nancy Austin on Gallery Night September 16th at the Providence Athenaeum from 5-7pm. Please note that around 6:30 she will discuss the exhibition and then at 7pm lead a group on a one hour walking tour where she will be presenting her latest discoveries about the dawn of the art world in Providence.

For more information, please see www.AustinAlchemy.com/coliseum and www.providenceathenaeum.org

Closed SEPTEMBER Gallery Night : Bert Gallery

NEW 2010 Galleries : AIAri, Bannister Gallery

Galleries by name :
- AIAri
- BankRI Gallery
- Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College
- Bell Gallery at Brown University
- Belleau Gallery
- Bert Gallery at Corliss Landing
- Chabot Fine Art Gallery
- The Chazan Gallery at Wheeler
- Copacetic Rudely Elegant Jewelry
- LAUNCH Gallery
- Gallery 17 Peck
- Gallery Z
- John Brown House of the Rhode Island Historical Society
- Krause Gallery at Moses Brown
- LAUNCH at Gail Cahalan Gallery
- Peaceable Kingdom
- Providence Art Club
- Picture This Gallery (downtown)
- Providence Art Club
- Providence College Galleries
- The RISD Museum of Art
- Royal Gallery
- URI Feinstein Providence Campus Gallery

Associate Galleries & Art Spots : Not every gallery is open on Gallery Night but you can discover these artistic wonders on your own almost every day of the year.
- Above Providence Optical Gallery
- Atrium Gallery
- BIG NAZO LAB
- The Gallery at City Hall
- Hotel Providence
- Sine Cera
- Studio Hop

Gallery Night Dates for 2010

March 18	June 17	September 16
April 15	July 15	October 21
May 20	August 19	November 18

DIRECTIONS:
From the South
* Take I-95 northbound to Exit 21 (Broadway)
* Take a right at the end of the ramp onto Broadway
* Bear a right onto Empire Street
* Take the second right at light onto Washington Street
* Take a right on to Greene Street and take a left into the second parking lot on the left (for One Regency Plaza)
* Concierge will direct you to designated parking

From the North
* Take I-95 southbound to Exit 21 (Atwells Avenue)
* At the third light, turn left onto Washington Street
* Take a left on to Greene Street and take a left into the second parking lot on the left (for One Regency Plaza)
* Concierge will direct you to designated parking

About Parking:
Parking is free from 5 to 9 pm on Gallery Night only. Free parking lots will be designated with Gallery Night signs. Visitors do not need to show a voucher or ticket when parking. Gallery Night Providence and lot owners are not responsible for damage, theft or injury.

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In the Galleries

GALLERY HIGHLIGHTS :
• Sustainable Design (AIAri Windows on Architecture Gallery)
• Pictures through the Lens: Photographs by Paul Davis (Bank RI)
• Faculty Art Exhibit (Bannister Gallery - RIC)
• Alison Owen: divisibility (Bell Gallery - Brown)
• Ten Most Endangered Properties Photography Exhibit (Chabot Gallery)
• Elizabeth Duffy, Carl Hasse, and Duncan Johnson (Chazan Gallery - Wheeler)
• Astrid (Gallery Z)
• Cemal Ekin (Hunt-Cavanagh)
• Alexey Klimov (Krause Gallery)
• Katie Koti (Launch)
• Peaceable Kingdom 30th Birthday Party! (Peaceable Kingdom)
•The World of Sylvia Nicolas - Painting, Sculpture, Stained Glass (Reilly Gallery - PC)
• Tristin Lowe:  Under the Influence (RISD Museum)
• Mary Jane Q. Cross: the Finger Painter of America (Royal Gallery)
• The Peace Art Project: A Month of Peace (URI)

HOW TO DO GALLERY NIGHT :
WALK
Park free at any one of the many parking lots situated conveniently throughout the city and stroll from gallery to gallery, enjoying the Providence skyline and the historic city streets. Use the brochure maps to discover the galleries, museums, art spots, and parking lots just a short walk from one another.
TAKE THE ART BUS
New this year are theme dedicated tours leaving at 5:30, 6, 6:30 and 7 pm. Tours stop at approximately 4 galleries each and run about 2 hours. Park free at our central location at One Regency Plaza located at the end of Greene (2nd parking lot on the left) in back of the Providence Public Library.
DRIVE
Stop at our information center at One Regency Plaza and learn about the evening's exhibitions. Choose the exhibits that interest you the most and drive directly to the parking lot nearest the gallery of your choice.
BIKE
Art Bike Tours are new for 2010. Looking for an affordable alternative to driving? Ride your bike to Regency Place and meet up with other avid art bike fans. Art Bike Tours will be available in the summer months.
ACCESSIBLE BUS TOURS
Accessible bus tours will be offered on each Gallery Night from June through September. The tours run from 5:30 -7:30 pm. Space is limited and reservations are required. To reserve a space, please call 401 490-2042.
CELEBRITY GUIDED TOURS
Celebrity Guided Tours offer the public a chance to mix and mingle with people who care deeply about art. Celebrities Guides run the gamut from the curators and academics who shape opinions about art to the artists whose lives' 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
Walking tours are available starting from Regency Place weather permitting.