WHAT: Gallery Night Providence’s 11th Season. Join us for a fun-filled cultural extravaganza. Nineteen galleries, museums and historic sites; eight
convenient parking lots; live music; refreshments; art buses; celebrity
guides and it’s all FREE!

WHEN: The Third Thursday, May 17, from 5 to 9 p.m.

WHERE: Meet at any one of the galleries and jump on the art bus, or park
behind Citizens Plaza and walk to the front of building. The buses depart
every twenty-five minutes or so.

HIGHLIGHTS

-Christopher Zhang (Bellini Ruggieri)

-Santa Clara Pueblo Potter Jody Naranjo (Gallery at 17 Peck)

-Monotypes/Pastels by Richard Harrington (Providence Art Club)

-Haitian Paintings (Peaceable Kingdom)

-Who Creates the Art Market - museums, auctions, curators, critics, artists, collectors or galleries? (Bert Gallery).

CLOSED in May: Providence College galleries, Sol Koffler Gallery and The
Wheeler Gallery

DIRECTIONS - From 95 North or South, take exit 22 and follow the signs for
Downtown Providence. Go straight through the traffic light; you are on
Memorial Boulevard. Take a left at the next light onto Exchange Street. Take
your next right and then right again to park FREE in the parking lot of
Citizens Plaza. It is the Metro Park lot with the booth at the entrance.
Parking is available free as space allows.

PHONE: 401 490-2042
WEB SITE: www.gallerynight.info
CELEBRITY GUIDES: East Asian Studies Scholar Dr. Roger S. Keyes; (6:30
p.m.); Director of the Providence Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism
Lynne McCormack (5:30 p.m.); dancer/choreographer Deb Meunier (6:30 p.m.)

For biographical information on the celebrity guides, click more.

Dr. Roger S. Keyes - A Visiting Scholar in East Asian Studies at Brown
University, Dr.Roger S. Keyes is a published poet and practicing artist who
has studied drawing with Connie Smith Siegel, intuition with Helen Palmer,
Buddhist meditation with Zen Master Soeng Hyang, and Native American
ceremony with Sheila Alich. The author of over one hundred books, articles,
catalogues, and other publications on Japanese prints, Dr.Keyes curated a
groundbreaking exhibition, Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan, at the
New York Public Library 2006. The community is fortunate to have a scholar
like Dr.Keyes, who can bring to light the not only the historical and
cultural aspects of Japanese prints but also the way in which the work
underscores shared human experience. Roger will share his insight and humor
in a discussion of the RISD Museum show “Feathers, Flowers, Talons and
Fangs: Power and Serenity in Japanese Nature Prints” in a tour that will
leave at 6:30 pm.

Lynne McCormack - Lynne McCormack is a leader in efforts to continue
Providence’s artistic and cultural renaissance. A 1987 RISD graduate she
worked for the Providence Parks Department Office of Cultural Affairs from
1998 to 2003 and helped to organize the Convergence International Arts
Festival as well as many other public events for the City of Providence. In
2003, Mayor Cicilline appointed her Deputy Director of the newly formed
Department of Art, Culture and Tourism. In that role, she has been
instrumental in the development of such festivals as First WorksProv and
Providence Sound Session. Her energy and enthusiasm for music and art and
the way they speak to the city’s cultural diversity is contagious and
enriches the art scene here. She became director of the department in 2006.

Deb Meunier - Deb Meunier serves as artistic director and primary
choreographer for Fusionworks Dance Company and Fusionworks Dance Academy.
Her choreography has been produced at Jacob’s Pillow, Dance Services
Network, ECA, The Mayfair Festival in PA, Artspace of New Haven, the Gowanis
Outback Series, The Field, and the 92nd Street Y of NYC. In the spring of
2001 her choreography was chosen to represent Rhode Island performing
artists in the New England Artist’s Congress and she was invited back to
present her choreography at the prestigious 92nd Street Y in NYC in the
spring of 2003. . Deb is known for her spirit of collaboration and has
worked with painters, musicians, sculptors, filmmakers and other
choreographers and dancers throughout the years. She received a MALS and the
Rulewater Prize from Wesleyan University for her work on an
interdisciplinary choreographic residency with the Rhode Island School for
the Deaf. In 2003 Deb received the Individual Achievement Award from the
Arts and Business Council of RI for her significant contributions to the
arts in Rhode Island.