Providence College Galleries

Welcome back students and faculty! We look forward to another fantastic year at Providence College. The galleries are currently closed for installation and will open September 4th.

Upcoming Exhibitions

EXPAND
September 4, 2024–January 18, 2025
Reilly Gallery, Smith Center for the Arts

Contour: Selections from the Collection
September 4, 2024–March 1, 2025
Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery

Coming soon...

EXPAND: Hillerbrand+Magsamen+Lynn

On view starting Sept 4 at
Reilly Gallery, Smith Center for the Arts

Save the Date! Oct 10, 5pm - 7pm to meet the artists, Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen.

Providence College Galleries is pleased to present EXPAND, a new collaboration between the artistic team Hillerbrand+Magsamen and playwright Kirk Lynn. Mary and Stephan have explored the relationship between their home, family histories, and daily life for over two decades. Their diverse creative practice-photography, time-based media, sculpture, and performance-celebrates the transformative power and beauty inherent in the everyday.

Image credit: Hillerbrand+Magsamen, “Expand Series,” 2024. Al-Enhanced Composite of Home Scans

©Hillerbrand+Magsamen 2024

Getting artwork framed for the upcoming exhibition at Adjective framing!

Summer is here! ☀️ Summer hours are now in effect 5/20-9/1: Monday-Friday 11am-4pm.

5/22-8/22: For Reilly Gallery access during construction please review the instructions on our website under “Visit”

https://pcgalleries.providence.edu/visit/

Coming soon to the Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery!

Best in Show features selections of works by the graduating studio art majors to showcase their accomplishments and celebrate this class’s breadth of creativity and talent. The students focus for a full academic year to create a cohesive body of work, culminating in thesis exhibitions at Providence College Galleries. Each thesis reflects the artist’s engagement in experimentation with materials and techniques as well as in-depth cultural inquiry, resulting in distinct visual languages and artworks.

Graduating seniors, Eliot Cronin, Brenden Greene, Victoria Holowinsky and Diane Polanco of the Art & Art History Department at Providence College showcased exquisite work at the Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery this month.

Coming soon to the Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery!

2024 Studio Art Thesis Exhibitions 2: What Was, What Is, What Will Be.

May 1 2024-May 12, 2024
Opening Reception May 1, 5-7 PM
Hunt Cavanagh Gallery

Graduating seniors, Liam Back, Hilary Nestor, Daniel Strydom and Angelina Tanzi of the Art & Art History Department at Providence College conceptualize and complete capstone projects to fulfill the requirements of their major.

Coming soon to the Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery!

2024 Studio Art Thesis Exhibitions 1: Expressions
April 10, 2024–April 20, 2024
Hunt Cavanagh Gallery

Graduating seniors of the Art & Art History Department at Providence College conceptualize and complete capstone projects to fulfill the requirements of their major.

Paloma Dobski, one of our student assistants is filling out condition reports on objects in Siena Art Storage.

Regularly checking the condition of our collection artwork ensures that we notice any changes over time which helps preserve pieces for the future.

Just 2 days left to view our current exhibitions!
New Ground: Selections from Wingate Studio Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery and Cammie Staros: Unearthing the Sky - Reilly Gallery, Smith Center for the Arts

Gallery Hours
Monday–Saturday 11:00am–6:00pm

Toby Sisson: Hindsight, 2022

Navigating the canvas of time: the chaos of 2020, the lessons of 2021, the growth of 2022, and the hope fainted into 2023. A visual journey through the years.

Read more about Toby Sisson and her work https://pcgalleries.providence.edu/pal/toby-sisson-hindsight/

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Visit https://pcgalleries.providence.edu/pal/cammie-staros-unearthing-the-sky/ to read this exhibition review by Michael Zhang.

From PAL Providence Arts and Letters - Art historian Michael Zhang deftly contextualizes Staros’ work in overlapping art historical legacies and considers the open questions posed by the sculptures, both ancient and modern.

Providence College Galleries send you love and best wishes this Valentine’s Day! ❤️

Artwork by Heather McPherson, Associate Professor of Studio Art at Providence College and member of PCG’s inaugural Faculty Advisory Committee.

Due to the impending snow storm Providence College Galleries will be closed Tuesday, February 13th.

Have you been thinking about keeping fish but haven’t had the funds or time to research what would be needed? PCG has got you covered! We are looking to donate an aquarium tank with fish and plants from our recent exhibition.
Here’s what is included:

Tank
-29-gallon fish tank (32.25 IN L X 14.25 IN W X 20.63 IN H)
-a submersible preset heater and thermometer
-a hood with an LED light
-a QuietFlow Power Filter and filter cartridge

Fish
-4 Yellow Guppies
-2 Minnows
-2 Red-tailed Tetras
-2 Serpae Tetras
-2 Incan Gold Snails
-2 Nerite Snails

Plants
-1 Lily (live plant)
-2 tall live plants
-1 medium plant
-2 short live plants

This is your chance to bring the calming effects of observing life in an aquarium to your home or office. All you would need to supply is soil, water conditioner, fish food and any rocks or decor you choose!

This is a First come first serve offer
Respond by FEBRUARY 23rd

PCG was excited to host Professor Virginia Thomas’s Visual Communication class in Art storage to visually analyze artwork in Siena Art Storage.

Vivian Greven

My HomeCourt, in partnership with Providence College Galleries and Providence Parks Department, is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $30,000!

This grant will support our 2024-2025 project at James Ahern Park in Providence, featuring an original mural to be designed by internationally renowned artist Trenton Doyle Hancock.

“The NEA is delighted to announce this grant to My HomeCourt, which is helping contribute to the strength and well-being of the arts sector and local community,” said National Endowment for the Arts Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. “We are pleased to be able to support this community and help create an environment where all people have the opportunity to live artful lives.”
Big thanks to our partners at Providence Parks Department and PC Galleries and to the PC Art and Art History Department for ongoing support!

“New Ground: Selections from Wingate Studio” continues in our Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery.

Pictured:
Josephine Halvorson, Fire, 2019
Five plate aquatint etching with dry point, soft ground, spit bite and sugar lift on white Somerset Satin paper

On slide two you will find an essay written about the piece by Providence College student Ava Robataille ‘26.

Are you an artist who has feelings about taxes? Does documenting and declaring expenses and income confuse you? Do you have questions about how to pay yourself, pay for materials, and pay collaborators from a grant award? Are you concerned you’re not doing things right, or are you throwing your hands up and just straight avoiding dealing with them?

This workshop with Amy Smith is for you! Bring your questions, bring your failures and successes, and come hang out in our Zoom room 6-8pm!

AMY SMITH: https://amyelainesmith.com/economic-justice/
Link in bio to register!
**if you can’t make the zoom, please register anyways and you will have access to the recording for 3 months**

Visit PCG! Normal gallery hours resume this week.
Monday-Saturday 11:00am-6:00pm

Cammie Staros: Unearthing the Sky is on view until March 2,
2024
Reilly Gallery, Smith Center for the Arts

New Ground: Selections from Wingate Studio on view until
March 2, 2024
Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery

A wonderful examination of our current exhibition "Cammie Staros: Unearthing the Sky" from Cate McQuaid in the The Boston Globe this week.

‘Unearthing the Sky’ unearths big questions at Providence College Galleries - The Boston Globe Cammie Staros’s show gallops through time and examines traditional museum display methods through a critical, contemporary lens.

Our partner organization has launched a new grant program in collaboration with

Indigenous and/or African Heritage teaching artists based in Providence, RI who lost income during the pandemic are eligible for grants ranging from $1000 to $8000.

Be sure to attend an upcoming TAG info session if you'd like to know more! All of the Info session dates can be found through the link in our bio.

This Teaching Artist Grant is brought to you by Interlace, AS220, and the Providence Department of Arts, Culture, and Tourism.








                       

Did you catch us the radio this morning? Jamilee Lacy chatted with James Baumgartner on The Public's Radio 89.3FM about our current exhibition "On the Wall: Edie Fake", you can still stream their conversation here:

“On the Wall”: A gallery for contemplation and reflection at Providence College Edie Fake was first known for his work in comics and zines. Then in the mid-aughts he started creating architectural drawings of real and imagined LGBTQ spaces in Chicago featuring bright colors, crisp lines and geometric designs. Now you can see Fake’s “On The Wall,” an all-encompassing room ...

Now Reading: Providence Arts & Letters [PAL] ⁠
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Elizabeth Duffy invokes thrift, historical trace, women's work, and embodied memory in her Wearing series, transforming already-recycled rag rugs back into period-specific fashion. ⁠
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"Unraveling and reconstructing them is wildly revealing—each anonymous makers’ hand and voice are vividly present in the braiding and stitching, and the radiant patterned fabrics disrupt any notion that the past was a reserved and quaint space."⁠
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Read more about Duffy's process and relationship with her materials:
https://pcgalleries.providence.edu/pal/wearing/

Installation images from our current exhibition, "On the Wall: Edie Fake". This extraordinary, immersive space is one view in our Reilly Gallery through September 30, 2023. Plan your visit today!

https://pcgalleries.providence.edu/exhibition/on-the-wall-edie-fake/

TGIF! Enjoying some colorful libations courtesy of Edie Fake, who is presenting the 2023 installment of our annual "On the Wall" program at the end of this month. ⁠
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Opening Wednesday March 29th with a reception and artist-led tour in PCG's Reilly Gallery, Fake will present a room-sized mural and custom-designed “reflection pools” that emphasize the importance of self-knowledge and contemplation.⁠ ⁠
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Images:⁠
[1] "Love Potion", 2022, Gouache on masonite panel, 24 x 20 inches, 61 x 50.8 cm via ⁠
[2] Ferments, 2022, Gouache on masonite panel, 36 x 36 inches, 91.4 x 91.4 cm via

COMING SOON "On the Wall: Edie Fake"⁠
Opening March 29th in PCG's Reilly Gallery. ⁠
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For its annual On the Wall series, PCG presents American artist, illustrator, author, and activist Edie Fake for the artist’s first solo show in New England. With custom-designed wallpapers, geometric patterns, and mirrored vinyl, the exhibition will transform the gallery into an immersive artwork. "On the Wall: Edie Fake" is the final exhibition Jamilee Lacy will curate for PCG.⁠
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[1] Edie Fake, "Affordable Housing for Trans Elders" (detail), 2019, Art Wall at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Great article by Michael Rose on GoLocalProv today sharing the work of Jacques Bidon whose prints feature prominently in our current exhibition "Providence Prints!" on view in PCG's Reilly Gallery.

GoLocalProv | Lifestyle | Printmaker Jacques Bidon Featured in Cross Town Exhibitions - Inside Art with Michael Rose With a collegial and tight-knit art community like the one alive and well in Rhode Island, it is possible for individuals to have enormous impact on the art scene. Local printmaker Jacques Bidon is one such artist. Bidon does not only make his own work but has also been a...

It's graduation week here at and PCG would like to extend a warm congratulations to the two graduating Studio Art Majors on their wonderful thesis exhibitions! Callie Chen and Madigan Farrell both have their work in view through July 30th in PCG's Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery. ⁠
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Images:⁠
(1,2) Callie Chen⁠, "PWI", 2022⁠
(3,4) Madigan Farrell⁠, "Forgotten Lunch", 2022⁠⁠⁠⁠

We hope you can join us for the opening of "On the Wall: Sheida Soleimani" this coming Wednesday, March 30th from 5pm.

Artist Talk: 5pm
Opening Reception: 6-7pm

Reilly Gallery, Smith Center for the Arts

More info: https://pcgalleries.providence.edu/program/2839/

Opening Reception for On the Wall: Sheida Soleimani As part of PCG’s opening events for the exhibition