Newport, RI – Newport Art Museum’s Art After Dark, which recently received the 2017 Editor’s Pick Award for Best Artsy Social Event by Rhode Island Monthly Magazine, is back on Thursday, December 14 from 5 – 9 pm. Each Art After Dark has unique programming for the whole family. This event joins the ranks of the many events and educational programs the Museum currently offers in its galleries at 76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport. And the best news: Admission is free or by donation! So, reacquaint yourself with the Newport Art Museum. Details are available at www.newportartmuseum.org.
Art After Dark this month will launch the opening of the Faculty & Student Holiday Arts & Crafts Sale featuring a wide variety of beautiful and original work by the artists and craftspeople from our own Coleman Center for Creative Studies! Join us for the best holiday shopping in the Ilgenfritz Gallery, while being serenaded by the lively Golden Bantam String Band. The sale will continue Friday and Saturday from 10 am – 4 pm, but first dibs will be on Thursday. Find the perfect handmade, special something. Maybe you need a teacher gift, stocking stuffer, stunning gift for a dear one, hostess gift or a treat for yourself. The Museum’s accomplished artist instructors and students have created just the thing for you!
Newport Photography Guild Award Winners Gallery Talk will take place at 5:30 pm in the Studio Gallery. Join us for an engaging conversation with the award winning photographers currently on view in the annual Newport Photo Guild exhibition. Patty Weiss, Jack Renner, Debbie Filkins, Jane Marie Viti, John Repoza will share their vision, choice of subject matter, and processes during an informal talk in the gallery.
Test your wits with interactive Gallery Games and Brain Teasers concocted by our 2017-2018 cohort of Museum Studies (MuSE) students! They’ll challenge your art trivia knowledge with entertaining and playfully competitive games in the galleries.
Take a breather from the hustle and bustle in our NEW Create Space, which will be stocked with materials for guests to read a poem, and leave a poem.
The Museum Shop is decked out for the holidays with ornaments, jewelry, ceramics, gifts for the wee ones, accessories for the ladies, art prints and fine art, and more! Remember: members save 10% on all items in the Shop.
Art After Dark is free for Members, $10 suggested donation for non-member.
Light refreshments and cash bar.
