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Gathering | November 1—2, 2024
Exhibition | November 1—17, 2024
PERFORMANCE | EXHIBITION | COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
A two-day gathering of artists and earth workers engaging with death and burial through performance, installation, and storytelling.
Exhibition | November 1—17, 2024
PERFORMANCE | EXHIBITION | COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
A two-day gathering of artists and earth workers engaging with death and burial through performance, installation, and storytelling.
November 1 — 16, 2024
EXHIBITION | MULTIMEDIA
A student exhibition featuring a 60-foot vertical silk cyanotype, along with smaller cyanotypes, community event photos, and a video on the 1960s Lunar Orbiter Missions.
EXHIBITION | MULTIMEDIA
A student exhibition featuring a 60-foot vertical silk cyanotype, along with smaller cyanotypes, community event photos, and a video on the 1960s Lunar Orbiter Missions.
Nov. 11 & 22
WORKSHOP | ARM-KNITTING
Two arm knitting workshops facilitated by non-expert and artist Jim Drain.
WORKSHOP | ARM-KNITTING
Two arm knitting workshops facilitated by non-expert and artist Jim Drain.
September 19 - December 8, 2024
Bursting with color, texture, and organic form, the intensely personal work of Franklin Williams (b.1940 in Ogden, UT; lives and works in Petaluma, CA) sustains a tension between figuration and abstraction.
Bursting with color, texture, and organic form, the intensely personal work of Franklin Williams (b.1940 in Ogden, UT; lives and works in Petaluma, CA) sustains a tension between figuration and abstraction.
April 6-November 17, 2024
VISUAL ART
Appreciate Brown’s distinguished public art collection with a student-curated tour. 40-minute guided walking tours will explore 6 works of art. All tours are outdoors, rain or shine.
VISUAL ART
Appreciate Brown’s distinguished public art collection with a student-curated tour. 40-minute guided walking tours will explore 6 works of art. All tours are outdoors, rain or shine.
December 5 — 7, 2024
PERFORMANCE | SYMPOSIUM
A three-day symposium that will investigate how and why duration has been an important aesthetic mode for performance, visual, and media artists.
PERFORMANCE | SYMPOSIUM
A three-day symposium that will investigate how and why duration has been an important aesthetic mode for performance, visual, and media artists.
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Student Voices in The Arts
What does it mean to be a part of the Arts at Brown? It means teaching, creating, collaborating, performing, working, experimenting, and much more.
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Recent News
The Brown Daily Herald
Director of ‘Power of the Dream’ discusses collective action amid upcoming elections
Brown’s Pandemic Center hosted a screening and discussion with the film’s director.
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An open-to-the-public festival, from Oct. 24 to 27, will highlight Brown’s Lindemann Performing Arts Center as a premier site for orchestral music performance, experimentation and recording.
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A creative collaboration between the Brown Arts Institute and Pleasant View Elementary School, “PantherArt” featured more than 400 young artists, offering a joyful highlight in Brown’s IGNITE series this fall.
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Current Highlights
Today at Brown
BAI Names New Faculty Director
Brown University Provost Francis J. Doyle III announces the appointment of Sydney Skybetter as Brown Arts Instistute's next Faculty Director.
The Lindemann pushes the boundaries of innovation in performance space to inspire new forms of art-making and artistic collaboration. Learn more about the five radically different configurations for the Main Hall plus the three rehearsal level spaces that also double as performance venues.
The Ronald O. Perelman Arts District highlights the prominence of arts teaching, scholarship and performance at Brown.
About Brown Arts
Interdisciplinary Arts Research, Practice, and Scholarship
Brown Arts represents the fueling of the arts ecosystem on campus, in the surrounding community, nationally and globally by nurturing new voices, new work and new audiences. We believe that the arts are integral to life at Brown, and beyond, serving as a resource and inspiration for creative exploration, innovation and expression for all.
Brown Arts Institute Hours
Normal operating hours: Monday — Friday: 9 AM — 5 PM
Building Hours:
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Monday — Friday: 8:30 AM — 10 PM
Saturday: 12 PM — 6 PM
Sunday: 12 PM — 8 PM
Closed on University holidays
The Lindemann Performing Arts Center
Monday — Friday: 8:30 AM — 10:30 PM
Saturday: 12 PM — 6 PM
Sunday: 12 PM — 8 PM
Closed on University holidays
Contact Us
Brown Arts Institute
Mailing Address:
Brown University
Campus Box 1987
Providence, RI 02912
Physical Address:
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell Street
Providence, RI 02906
Phone:
401-863-1934
Email:
artsinstitute@brown.edu