Third Thursday

Night-time fun at the RISD Museum. Come check out what we're all about—watch demos, experiment with art-making materials, hear from students about their work, and learn to look at art and design in a new way. Not your average Thursday evening.
Free!
The Third Thursday of the month is also Providence's Gallery Night! Join free tours of numerous galleries across the city, including the Museum. Learn more here.
June schedule:
6-8 pm: Hands-on Art
Inspired by works on view, create art in the galleries with the guidance of artist-educator Margaret Owen.
6:30 pm and 7:15 pm: Ways of Looking
This guided, introductory session invites curious viewers to learn new approaches to viewing selected works of art or design.
6 pm: Assembly – Walk the (pink) Elephant
Walk the (pink) Elephant is a work-in-progress exploration of absence, crafting a ritual of reckoning and regeneration in the face of cataclysmic loss. It memorializes and opens ground in the wake of the decimation of multiple generations of (often queer) artists of color by HIV/AIDS and the consequent erasure of their creative legacies, their living, loving and dying. WT(p)E employs Denizen Arts:' dynamic collaborative approach, steeped in the liberational ritual practices of the African diaspora as points of creative reference and departure.
Denizen Arts: is a collaborative creative project conceived in 2016 by dance/performance artist yon Tande and theatre/movement artist Jude Sandy. DA:'s work is informed and inspired by African diaspora cultural and art-making traditions. DA: seeks to be a locus and resource for the creation of new works and for renewed discourses on historic and contemporary complexities of the human experience.