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.

Brown Arts Institute empowers students to be the creative visionaries of tomorrow, cultivating the artistic practice and agency to navigate complexity and shape the futures we need.

Courageous Creativity 
Art making is a courageous act. We embrace experimental processes and outcomes, exploring new ideas and practices. 

Expansive Collaboration
Our work is interdependent, interdisciplinary, and relational. We seek a plurality of ideas and work together across difference. 

Compassion 
Kindness sustains collective work. We nurture environments built on mutual respect and extend grace to one another and ourselves. 

Accountability 
Building trust requires commitment to one another and to equitable processes. We strive to provide clarity in decision making and to share critical information in a timely manner.

Continual Learning 
Creative endeavors need novel approaches. We view our work as an opportunity to learn from one another and to expand our collective knowledge.

Brown Arts Institute (BAI) is a university-wide research enterprise and catalyst for the arts at Brown. It works to ensure that every Brown student has meaningful access to the arts; to foster partnerships across the arts, humanities, and STEM; and to bring phenomenal artists to campus through public programming and research. BAI's charge is to see that Brown's arts facilities, including The Lindemann Performing Arts Center, the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, and the David Winton Bell Gallery, all part of the Perelman Arts District, are fully enlivened by our students, staff, and faculty alongside regional and global creative communities.