FREE Walking Art Tours Highlight September Newport Gallery Night

Newport Galleries Night 2018 is underway and the season is in high gear at our member galleries, museums and cultural institutions with August Newport Gallery Night on Thursday, September 13th from 4:00 pm until 8:00 pm.

Our popular FREE Summer Guided Walking Art Tours continue for September Newport Gallery Night. And these short, “Armistice” by Judith Kinzel, digital art.informational tours will run hourly as follows:  meeting at 4:00 pm at Thames Glass, 5:00 pm at Spring Bull Gallery, 6:00 pm at Art on Spring and 7:00 pm at Arnold Art Gallery.  Tours, which will last about 30-45 minutes, will include information about all of the participating galleries, museums and cultural institutions in each area as well as any other interesting art related stories. The tours will run on Newport Gallery Nights from May through October.

There are exciting new shows at many of the 28 member galleries, museums and cultural institutions including:  Atelier, Spring Bull Gallery, DeBlois Gallery, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, andCory Silken Photography.

If you’re hungry after all these exhibitions, step into one of the 7 restaurants that collaborate with Newport Gallery Organization by providing discounts and specials for Newport Gallery Night visitors! Be sure to ask for a restaurant coupon and a parking voucher at any of the galleries.Free parking will be available for the night at the Gateway Visitors Center with a parking voucher and uptown at the Newport Art Museum.

For more information about Newport Gallery Night, our Free Guided Walking Tours and the Newport Gallery Organization, visit http://www.newportgalleries.org.

FREE Walking Art Tours Highlight August Newport Gallery Night

Newport Galleries Night 2018 is underway and the season is in high gear at our member galleries, museums and cultural institutions with August Newport Gallery Night on Thursday, August 9th from 4:00 pm until 8:00 pm.

Our popular FREE Summer Guided Walking Art Tours continue for August Newport Gallery Night. And theseSummer Wind by Mark Fernandez short, informational tours will run hourly as follows:  meeting at 4:00 pm at Thames Glass, 5:00 pm at Spring Bull Gallery, 6:00 pm at Art on Spring and 7:00 pm at Arnold Art Gallery.  Tours, which will last about 30-45 minutes, will include information about all of the participating galleries, museums and cultural institutions in each area as well as any other interesting art related stories. The tours will run on Newport Gallery Nights from May through October.

There are exciting new shows at many of the 28 member galleries, museums and cultural institutions including:  Atelier, Spring Bull Gallery, DeBlois Gallery, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, and Cory Silken Photography.

If you’re hungry after all these exhibitions, step into one of the 6 restaurants that collaborate with Newport Gallery Organization by providing discounts and specials for Newport Gallery Night visitors! Be sure to ask for a voucher at any of the galleries.  Free parking will be available for the night at the Discover Newport Visitors Center and uptown at the Newport Art Museum.  Pick up a parking sticker at any of the participating galleries to validate parking at the Discover Newport lot.

For more information about Newport Gallery Night, our Free Guided Walking Tours and the Newport Gallery Organization, visit http://www.newportgalleries.org.

FREE Walking Art Tours on July Newport Gallery Night

Newport Gallery Night 2018 is underway and the season is kicking into high gear at our member galleries, museums and cultural institutions with July Newport Gallery Night on Thursday, July 12 from 4:00 pm until 8:00 pm.

Our popular FREE Summer Guided Walking Art Tours continue for July Newport Gallery Night. The four Walking Art Tours on Newport Gallery Nightseparate free, short information tours will run hourly as follows: meeting inside at 4:00 pm at Thames Glass, 5:00 pm at Spring Bull Gallery, 6:00 pm at Art on Spring and 7:00 pm at Arnold Art. Tours, which will last about 30-45 minutes, will include information about all of the participating galleries, museums and cultural institutions in each area as well as any other interesting art related stories. The tours run on Newport Gallery Nights from May through October.

After visiting any of the participating galleries, museums, and cultural institutions, make a night of it by picking up a restaurant discount coupon and stopping by one of the 6 participating restaurants for a special! Free parking is available at the Gateway Visitors Center and uptown at the Newport Art Museum.

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Walk around town for April Newport Gallery Night

Enjoy the Spring weather by walking around town to see the latest exhibitions as the ever popular FREE guided walking art tours return for April Newport Gallery Night (weather permitting) on Thursday, April 12th, 2018 from 4:00 – 8:00 pm featuring participating member galleries, museums and cultural institutions including five new galleries.  There will be four separate walking tours meeting at 4:00 pm at Thames Glass, 5:00 pm at Spring Bull Gallery, 6:00 pm at Art on Spring and 7:00 pm at Arnold Art Gallery.

Andrea S. Keogh Art and Design, a new gallery at 59 Bellevue Avenue, is featuring the exhibit “Seeing Black and RedRed” from April 1st until June 1st. Each of the works are from different periods, however, the unifying theme of the collection is the color red, including fiery red pieces like Donald Sultan’s two prints, Red and Black and Black and Red. The way he uses the plane and experiments with lithography creates a work of art that is simultaneously representational and abstract.

Newport Art Museum will be hosting “Art After Dark” on gallery night. The gallery talk consists of domestic affairs: “Domesticity, Identity, and the Home” with Francine Weiss, Senior Curator. It will also include an education event, featuring presentations from six teaching artists.

Roger King Fine Arts on Spring Street offers a diverse array of paintings by 19th and 20th century artists including African-American art, cityscapes, figurative and genre, landscape, marine and coastal scenes, still life, and modernist art. Beautiful new additions of summer scenes include Charles Woodbury’s Ocean View near Perkins Cove, Oqunquit Maine from 1911 and Mabel May Woodward’s Young Boy String Fishing. 

Newport Contemporary Fine Arts, located at Goddard Row, Brick Marketplace, will be hosting an opening for their spring exhibition on April Newport Gallery Night at 7:00pm. Featured artists will be Jessica Dean Rosner – Ink on Paper, Meredith Morten – Ceramics, and Peter Cohen – Sculptures.

If you’re hungry after all these exhibitions, step into one of the 6 restaurants that collaborate with Newport Gallery Organization by providing discounts and specials for Newport Gallery Night visitors! Free parking will be available for the night at the Gateway Visitors Center and uptown at the Newport Art Museum.

For more information about Newport Gallery Night, our Free Guided Walking Tours and the Newport Gallery Organization, visit http://www.newportgalleries.org.

Start your Spring Adventures with March Newport Gallery Night

Start off your Spring by getting out to see the latest exhibitions around town. The Newport Gallery Organization is hosting Newport Gallery Night on March 8th, 2018 from 5:00 – 8:00 pm at participating member galleries, museums and cultural institutions. If you’re feeling festive for St. Patrick’s Day, you’ll definitely want to check out Spring Bull Gallery’s upcoming exhibit “Irish Eyes:  An Artistic Celebration of Irish Heritage” opening on March 3 from 5:oo pm – 7:00 pm.  This celebration of Irish heritage with landscapes, quaint cottages, castles, and all the hues of lush vegetation in Ireland continues through to April 3.

There are a number of exciting exhibits commencing the start of Spring. DeBlois Gallery is showcasing their 2018 kickoff open show “Anything Goes” on Saturday March 3, 2018 with a reception from 5:00pm – 7:00pm. The exhibit runs from March 3 to March 25, 2018. “Art After Dark” at the Newport Art Museum is another popular event on Newport Gallery Night. On Bellevue Avenue, Atelier Gallery is continuing their revolving exhibition featuring residents artists and friends “Hearths & Hideaways” until March 25th.

The Newport Art Museum “Art After Dark” features artful programs, talks, film screenings, gallery games, music and drinks. This month also features the opening reception for the Youth Art Month exhibition in the Coleman Center from 4:00 – 6:00pm. This show opens on Saturday, March 8, 2018 with a reception from 5:00pm – 9:00pm, and takes place on the second Thursday of each month. “Anything Goes” at DeBlois Gallery showcases playwright and satirist Noel Coward. He aims for the funnybone, with the craziness, and excesses of the 30’s. DeBlois opted to find the same impulses in our own era for the open show theme: “Anything Goes.” To find out how the community- near and far- have developed this idea in many mediums. The show runs until on March 25.

If you’re hungry after all these exhibitions, step into one of the 6 restaurants that collaborate with Newport Gallery Organization by providing discounts and specials for Newport Gallery Night visitors! Free parking will be available for the night at the Gateway Visitors Center and uptown at the Newport Art Museum.

For more information about Newport Gallery Night and Newport Gallery Organization, visit http://www.newportgalleries.org.