Ten shows to check out this October, arranged by opening date.
pictured: Topher Gent at Coastal Contemporary Gallery
OPENING
On Protest, Art, and Activism
Ja’Tovia Gary, Theaster Gates, Josephine Meckseper and Dread Scott
Cohen Gallery at Granoff Center for the Arts
154 Angell Street, Providence
October 1 – October 28 (part 1) / November 1 – December 19 (part 2)
Reception and public conversation Friday, November 2 (5:30pm)
pictured: Ja’Tovia Gary, An Ecstatic Experience (2015)
Brandon Ballengée: Ti-tânes and Other Myths of the Anthropocene
Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Providence
October 4 – 26
opening reception Thursday October 4 (5-8pm)
Phantom Limb Company: Jessica Grindstaff and Erik Sanko
with Sculpture by Susan Clinard
October 3 – October 28
Dedee Shattuck Gallery
1 Partners Lane, Westport
opening reception Saturday, October 6 (5-7pm)
Lumen Essence – New Work by Allison Paschke & Alyn Carlson
Candita Clayton Gallery
999 Main Street (Unit 105), Pawtucket
October 12 –
Opening reception Friday, October 12 (6-8pm)
Monica Shinn: We Wonder What Saved Us, What For?
Skye Gallery
381 Broadway, Providence
October 17 –
Opening reception Wednesday, October 17 (6-9pm)
Projective Planes: Conny Goelz Schmitt and Topher Gent
Coastal Contemporary Gallery
491 Thames Street, Newport
Opening reception Friday, October 19 (5-8pm)
pictured: Conny Goelz Schmitt, Harder Question (2018)
New England Sculptors Association
October 18 – November 18
IMAGO Foundation for the Arts
36 Market Street, Warren
Opening reception October 19 (6pm)
ONGOING
Where To Draw The Line
OneWay Gallery
140 Boon Street, Narragansett
now – October 14
Pascale Marthine Tayou: Remember Bimbia
now – October 28
Redwood Library & Athenaeum
50 Bellevue Avenue, Newport
Our Voice/Our Choice
now – November 30
Emily Boucher, Uli Brahmst, Jocelyn Foye, Viera Levitt, Susan Matthews, Barbara Pagh, Sarah Swift, Mara Trachtenberg, Wendy Wahl, Abigail Wamboldt, and The Woman Project
Warren Alpert Medical School
122 Richmond Street, Providence