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April 5-November 16, 2025
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.
EXHIBITION
April 23 – June 13, 2025
Mounted in conjunction with Leslie Bostrom’s retirement from the Department of Visual Art at Brown University, the exhibition Wild Stories commemorates the artist’s thirty-six-year tenure.
April 23 – June 13, 2025
Mounted in conjunction with Leslie Bostrom’s retirement from the Department of Visual Art at Brown University, the exhibition Wild Stories commemorates the artist’s thirty-six-year tenure.
February 20–June 1, 2025
EXHIBITION | THE BELL
An immersive video and archipelagic sculptural installation, Creuzet's exhibition extends his focus on water as a site of both historical and contemporary traumas and emancipatory futures.
EXHIBITION | THE BELL
An immersive video and archipelagic sculptural installation, Creuzet's exhibition extends his focus on water as a site of both historical and contemporary traumas and emancipatory futures.
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Blue Moon: Lunar Orbiter Silk Cyanotype — Gathered on Pembroke Field at Brown University by an open invitation, 30 Brown University community members assisted in creating a large-scale silk cyanotype. Using the sun’s ultraviolet rays to print pictures of the Moon from archival film, and conceived and curated by artist Logan Tullai ('25), this exhibition displayed photos from Lunar Orbiter 2.
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Introducing Creative Arts and Technology Spaces (CATS) — Learn about the Creative Arts and Technologies Spaces—the destination for scholars and creatives at Brown who want to turn their theory into practice!
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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
Brown University students performed an array of works during the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies’ annual spring dance showcase.
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The new student-led Chinese music ensemble, founded in Fall 2024, made its debut with a spring concert that showcased the group’s rich repertoire of traditional and contemporary medleys.
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Boston Art Review
Julien Creuzet Brings the Sounds of the Atlantic to Brown’s Bell Gallery
Tracing tides of displacement and survival, Creuzet floods the gallery with sound, movement, and sculpture, an embodied meditation on colonial legacies and diasporic presence in this immersive adaptation of his Venice Biennale installation.
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Current Highlights
BAI’s Online Space Booking System is now open for campus event planners!
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