GALLERY NIGHT PROVIDENCE IN AUGUST!

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, August 16, 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.

AUGUST CELEBRITY GUIDES: Channel 12 News Anchor and art lover Karen Adams (5:30 p.m. Wickenden/Wayland); Congressman Jim Langevin (6 p.m. Gallery Z and downtown); and artist Kenn Speiser (6:15 p.m. East Side).

KAREN ADAMS is an award-winning anchor at WPRI/Eyewitness News. She began her broadcasting career in radio, but quickly moved into television news working as a reporter, anchor and news director for television stations in Missouri, Maryland and North Carolina. Karen is well known for her generous work in the arts community and the Rhode Island community at large.

JIM LANGEVIN: Recognized as a national and party leader on homeland security, health care and stem cell research, Congressman Jim Langevin has dedicated his many years of public service at the federal and state levels to the hard-working citizens of Rhode Island.

Born April 22, 1964, Langevin is the first quadriplegic to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. At the age of 16, Langevin was injured while working with the Warwick Police Department in the Boy Scout Explorer program. A gun accidentally discharged and a bullet struck Langevin, leaving him paralyzed. The tremendous outpouring of support from his community inspired Langevin to give something back and enter public service.

Langevin resides in Warwick, Rhode Island, and serves on a number of boards, including PARI Independent Living, Tech Access, The Rhode Island Shelter, the Hope Alzheimer’s Center and the Big Brothers of RI. Langevin is also a member of the Knights of Columbus, Lions Club and Save the Bay. He graduated from Rhode Island College and earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

KENN SPEISER is a sculptor with an international reputation whose interests range from public sculpture to the varied designs that line “security envelopes.” A common theme is the color and pattern that encapsulate us in the post-modern world. As an artist whose work features aluminum, asphalt and circuit boards he is an ideal guide through the urban landscape.

NEW EXHIBITIONS: Paintings by Sung Mee Lee at BankRI: Paintings by Deborah Scales at the Chapel Gallery; Preview of Santa Fe Indian Market at the Gallery at 17 Peck; Paintings by Areg Elibekian at Gallery Z; and Treasures collected on trips to Mexico and Guatemala: masks, textiles, and jewelry at Peaceable Kingdom.

HIGHLIGHTS: Honky Tonk Portraits of Country Music 1972-1981: Photographs by Henry Horenstein at the RISD Museum of Art; What is Original Art? Is it a Gicleé - a new exhibit at the Bert Gallery: 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 August: Bannister Gallery; Bell Gallery: Providence College Reilly and Hunt Cavanagh Galleries; and The Chazan Gallery at Wheeler

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