Brown Arts Institute

Interdisciplinary Arts Research, Practice, and Scholarship

Brown Arts Institute catalyzes the pursuit of audacious interdisciplinary creative research and practice. We do this by offering unparalleled resources, cutting-edge spaces, and exceptional expertise to students, scholars, and artists.

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Program Highlights

PRIZMA Arts & Research Residency

Your favorite artists' favorite artists.
An artistic residency program that fully integrates into the pedagogical, research, and production ecosystems of Brown University.

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The Ruckus Sessions

ONGOING VISIONARY CONVERSATIONS
Debate club meets house party! Live, candid conversations with artists, researchers, and cultural leaders examining the rapidly evolving landscape of contemporary culture.

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Liminal Luminance

EXHIBITION | ALUMNI
August 17 – October 4, 2026
An exhibition celebrating new media practices that blur the boundaries between physical sculpture and digital reality.

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Building Books with Dayanita Singh

October 1–December 20, 2026
EXHIBITION
An exhibition extending from a course centered on Dayanita Singh, exploring the book as an evolving artistic form through photography, publishing, and display.

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Public Art Tours

VISUAL ART
Public Art Tours enable the University to share its significant cultural assets with the wider public and underscore the value of public art within the Brown community.

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Featured Videos

A whimsical painting of a giraffe wearing large yellow glasses in the foreground and a zebra wearing green glasses in the background of a savanna landscape. — Creative Horizons Mural Project⁠ at the Hasbro Children's Hospital Pediatric Eye Clinic

A person getting their head 3-D imaged. — Introducing Creative Arts and Technology Spaces (CATS) — the destination for scholars and creatives at Brown who want to turn their theory into practice!

Eiden Spilker Standing on the the Main Green — A solo exhibition by Eiden Spilker '24, made with wood from a historic Elm that once lived on the Main Green.

Two students work on a project in the Brown Design Workshop. — The Blind Urban Subject is an interactive public art installation that seeks to inspire mutual understanding of the blind and visually impaired in urban life, created by Brown University undergraduates Daniel Solomon '26, Rishika Kartik '26, Chloe Chow '26, and Zoe Goldemberg '27 (Brown|RISD Dual Degree).

Four or five people holding a blue cyanotype cloth. — 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.

A student looking in a black background with light coming over his shoulder. — 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

News From Brown Arts

Liminal Luminance Illuminates Alumni Artists

September 23, 2026

This fall, two Brown alumni return to campus to present Liminal Luminance, an exhibition culminating twenty-one years of collaborative making. For one of the alum, it's also a homecoming to a program he helped build.

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Theresa Ganz Appointed Associate Director of Brown Arts Institute

September 18, 2026

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The Logic Behind "The Logic of Illogic"

September 16, 2026

Jeanette Andrews began her PRIZMA Arts & Research Residency at the Brown Arts Institute in the spring. This fall, her experience as an illusionist is informing "The Logic of Illogic", a convening of scholars investigating the nature of reality and belief.

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