It’s 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 busses; celebrity guides and it’s all free!!!!

WHEN: The Third Thursday, July 19th, from 5-9pm

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

Bert Gallery Program: 6.30pm
Fine Art Digital Printmakers, a talk by Susan Fader of Ditto Editions

at Bert Gallery starting at 6.30pm

Artists, art collectors and dealers will not want to miss an informative lecture by Susan Fader, co-owner of Ditto Editions, one of the country’s leaders in Fine Art Digital Printing, located in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

In her talk, Susan will unravel the mysteries surrounding the fine art digital print process, explaining that it is more than scanning an image, color correcting and printing on a digital printer. She will demonstrate how recent technological advances will impact the understanding and positioning of digital prints not only as a reproduction method but also as a way that many artists create new work.

The program is in conjunction with the Bert Gallery exhibit “What is original art? Is it a giclee?”
· On view July 10 - August 24, 2007
· At Bert Gallery, located along the Providence waterfront at Corliss Landing, 540 South Water Street, in Providence, Rhode Island
· Open Gallery Nights: July 19 & August 16
· Gallery Hours are Tuesday - Friday from 11-5pm, Saturdays 12-4pm or by appointment.
· Exhibits are free and open to the public.

GALLERY NIGHT HIGHLIGHTS: Honky Tonk Portraits of Country Music 1972-1981: Photographs by Henry Horenstein at the RISD Museum of Art; Paintings by Kathrine Lovell at the Bank RI Gallery; What is Original Art? Is it a Gicleé - a new exhibit at the Bert Gallery; Innovative Natives: New Works by American Indian jewelry designers and goldsmiths Melanie Kirk-Lente and Michael Lente (Isleta Pueblo at the Gallery at 17 Peck: and Origins, an exhibit featuring innovative individual and collective window installations by URI Art Professors Bob Dilworth, Aldridge Hansberry, Brian O’Malley, Kim Salerno, Zoey Stites, and Blue Wade viewed through the URI Providence Campus Windows on Union and Washington Streets.

CLOSED in July: Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College, Bell Gallery at Brown, Reilly and Hunt Cavanaugh Galleries at Providence College and The Chazan Gallery at Wheeler.
Celebrity Guides:

Cherry Arnold produced and directed the award-winning feature documentary, “BUDDY, The Rise and Fall of America’s most Notorious Mayor.” In 2005 Cherry launched Big Orange Films, a Rhode Island-based video production company specializing in documentary, educational and commercial films. Before returning to her hometown of Providence, RI, Cherry lived in New York City where she did marketing, business development and project producing for companies such as Barnes&Noble.com, Sony and the Warner Music Group. At the start of the Internet boom, Cherry helped launch and expand the New York WELL, an offshoot of the venerable San Francisco-based online community. Previously, Cherry’s company, Cherry Arnold and Associates, produced advertising work for commercial photographers and directors in New York City and Philadelphia, PA.

Richard Benefield is Deputy Director of the Harvard University Art Museums. Previous positions include assistant director of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and administrator of the David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University. He is an accomplished musician and continues to perform occasionally as a concert organist, championing the work of contemporary composers. He is an avid collector of contemporary art, especially collecting the works of artists he knows personally. We are excited to have lured Benefield, who contributed so much to the arts scene in Providence, back home to help us appreciate the growth of the city’s arts district.

Wendy Edwards, a professor of art at Brown University, was educated in New Mexico and Philadelphia. She exhibits her work internationally as well as in Providence RI. Her artwork reflects an interest in pattern, decoration and repetition.

Peter Goldberg is a Providence-based freelance photographer specializing in editorial and commercial photography. Known for his non-obtrusive shooting style and for his ability to capture people in a comfortable and natural way, Peter shoots regularly for Rhode Island Monthly Magazine, The Clarendon Group, The Gamm Theatre, Brown University, Bryant University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Saint Joseph Hospital. From 2000 to 2002 Peter worked for Providence Mayor, Buddy Cianci, as the City Photographer. Peter’s photographs have been exhibited a number of galleries including The Rhode Island Foundation, AS220, Hera Gallery and The Providence Art Club. Peter graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1988.

Wm McKenzie Woodward
We are thrilled to have Mack Woodward, a native Texan, as a celebrity guide this month. Woodward has worked since 1976 as architectural historian for the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission He lectures extensively on both urban and rural topics throughout southern New England, and his audiences have included Providence Preservation Society, Society of Architectural Historians, Victorian Society in America, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His work has been nationally recognized with awards from the American Association for State and Local History and the Society of Architectural Historians. This promises to be a fun tour, for Woodward combines an intimate knowledge of Providence architecture with a robust enthusiasm for art and design.
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 the right again to park FREE in the parking lot of Citizen’s Plaza. It is the Metro Park lot with the booth at the entrance. Parking is available free as space allows.

PHONE: 401-490-2042

WEBSITE: www.gallerynight.info

We hope to see you there!
Gallery Night Providence
www.gallerynight.info
401-490-2042