Art shows and art events in Providence, RI tonight and this week

Open Hack Night - November 2026 at Mill Forge Makerspace in Norwood, Massachusetts.

Shape your own vessel on the pottery wheel, then fire and glaze it.

Make a fun craft after school at the Jamaica Plain branch library.

A Framed Resin Art Workshop: create a colorful, one-of-a-kind piece with resin and shells.

A look at Don't Tell Me How It Ends, a book by Adrienne Thurman.

Opening of 17 interactive data visualization artworks at the VISAP exhibition, with a keynote by Richard The on the theme Amplification.

Opening and keynote for the IEEE VIS Arts Program exhibition at MIT, with keynote speaker Richard The, alongside 17 interactive data visualization artworks.

In-person drawing and painting classes from Polins Atelier with guided instruction.

A beginner-friendly, solder-only stained glass workshop at Priam Vineyards: make feathers on driftwood, with the twine, driftwood and hooks included.

A beginning Tarot class for artists and creatives covering Tarot history, basic symbolism and the meaning of all 78 cards.

Fall Watercolor Series with Artist Mary Ellen Dwyer: a beginner/intermediate six-class series in the Visitor's Center Education Room, learning watercolor basics through demonstrations.

A photography exhibition exploring the beauty and resilience of the natural world, presented by the Newport Photo Guild.

The ValleyCAST Art Cart Workshop: make air dry clay pinch pots in this monthly FREE art workshop. All abilities welcome.

The Cato-Vernon Freedom Library at Vernon House: a kaleidoscopic response to the life of Private Cato Vernon, an African heritage Revolutionary War soldier and carpenter who lived in the house.

A guided tour of Mechanics Hall, with a live demonstration of the 1864 Hook Organ by Principal Organist Peter Krasinski.

Shadows and Light, an exhibition of over 150 works of Belgian symbolist art from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, collected by Charles Hack, with artists like Fernand Khnopff and Léon Spilliaert. Arranged in ten movements.

A call for art for America, Beautiful, and..., a juried exhibition at Highfield Hall & Gardens for America's Semi-quincentennial, exploring how America is lived, remembered, questioned and reimagined.

Stop In For a Spell: DIY Broom Decorating at The Good Witch of Salem in Massachusetts.

Helen Popinchalk, Bee Vision in Beverly.

An art exhibition at the Newport Art Museum pairing 19th- and 20th-century dolls and toys with contemporary artworks to explore how childhood play and imagination shape adult identity.

A focused look at Sheila Isham's abstract painting across more than six decades at the Newport Art Museum, shaped by the Washington Color School and her years living abroad from Berlin to New Delhi.

A national juried art exhibition interrogating deviance as a concept, celebrating its disruptive power through painting, drawing, and mixed media. Curated by Salve Regina advanced art history students and their professors.

Casual ride, about 20 miles round trip, on the paved Bruce Freeman trail to the train station and back. A little elevation at the bridges. Water breaks at Nara park and Hearts Pond both ways, and a bakery lunch stop on the way back. Any bike is fine.

Museum Enrichment Series for All (M.E.S.A.) at Lynn Museum and Arts Center in Massachusetts.

Curator Sheila Gallagher leads a conversation and walkthrough of the Exercises in Empathy exhibition, considering empathy as a human capacity that can be deepened through artistic experience.

A guided doodle class where you draw intricate, self-guided designs that may help with relaxation and mental clarity. $20.

Abstraction in Action Art Workshop at The Pryde Community Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

Decorated Christmas trees fill the museum building for the Festival of Trees, along with raffle items donated by local families and businesses.

Exhibition of 17 interactive data visualization artworks at MIT's Metropolitan Storage Warehouse, with an opening and keynote. This year's theme is Amplification.

Exhibition of 17 interactive data visualization artworks from the IEEE VIS Arts Program, on the theme Amplification, at MIT through November 13. The opening and keynote are on the 11th.

belongings: calling lynn home Exhibition at Lynn Museum and Arts Center in Massachusetts.

Industry & Craft: People At Work In Lynn Exhibition at Lynn Museum and Arts Center in Massachusetts.

Raíces de Amor, an exhibition of artists exploring family histories, migration and diaspora, cultural traditions, chosen family, queer kinship, resilience and memory.

Watercolor Workshop | Autumn Among the Birches in Lynn.

A cake decorating class for a fall spiced vanilla cake with brown butter cream cheese buttercream.