Brown Arts

Brown Arts

What's On

MUSIC
November 22, 2024
Star cellist Zlatomir Fung performs masterworks for cello including Benjamin Britten's Sonata for Cello and Piano and Beethoven's Sonata for Piano and Cello, Op. 69.
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Fall 2023 — Fall 2024
Upcoming: "Zurawski v Texas" on December 2
FILM | PANEL
A year-long integrated media experience that illuminates the importance of our collective health and what can be done to enhance it.
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December 5 — 7, 2024
PERFORMANCE | SYMPOSIUM
A three-day symposium that will investigate how and why duration has been an important aesthetic mode for queer and trans performance, visual, and media artists.
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December 7, 2024 | 7:00 PM
PERFORMANCE | MUSIC
Dorian Wood performs the entirety of Sinéad O'Connor's groundbreaking 1990 album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got in an intimate, emotionally raw piano-and-voice format, paying tribute to the late singer/songwriter.
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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.
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Call for Art

EXHIBITION
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, November 27, 2024
The Brown Arts Institute (BAI) is pleased to invite all staff to submit their original artwork for After Hours: Annual Staff Art Exhibition in the Atrium Gallery at Granoff Center for the Creative Arts.
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EXHIBITION
Submissions are due by January 7, 2025
All currently enrolled Brown students are invited to submit to the 45th Annual Student Exhibition. All artistic mediums are accepted.
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Featured Video

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.

Recent News

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