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The Brown Daily Herald
Black Music Lab allows musicians, community members to explore artistry
Led by Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, the Black Music Lab hosts experimental concerts for the public.
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The Brown Daily Herald
October 6, 2025
Brown Arts Institute adds new arts education workshop to its fall offerings
The Teaching Artists Studio aims to help participants at various experience levels build community and hone their arts teaching skills.
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The Brown Daily Herald
September 25, 2025
New BAI festival set to showcase films that put ‘the CULT in culture’
The Trash Camp Super Queer What Even Are Human Bodies Vaguely Dancerly Sci-Fi Film Festival will open Oct. 1.
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The Brown Daily Herald
September 24, 2025
New Bell Gallery exhibition ‘ojo|-|ólǫ́’ honors Diné mythology, culture
The exhibition, created by artist Eric-Paul Riege, is on display until Dec. 7.
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The artist transforms Diné mythology, weaving, and metal work into something unparalleled and playful.
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The Brown Daily Herald
September 16, 2025
New exhibit highlighting role of sound in Indigenous communities opens at Cohen Gallery
“the sun has its own drum” presents the work of four Indigenous artists who explore the theme of sonic territorialism.
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News from Brown
September 15, 2025
Exhibition at Brown responds to University’s Haffenreffer Museum collection of Navajo objects
A major solo exhibition by Diné artist Eric-Paul Riege exploring the production and reproduction of Indigeneity is on view at Brown’s David Winton Bell Gallery through Dec. 7.
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The Bell Gallery at Brown University (The Bell) in Providence, R.I. and Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle present ojo|-|ólǫ́, a major institutional exhibition by Diné artist Eric-Paul Riege (b. 1994, Na’nízhoozhí [Gallup, New Mexico]). The exhibition is co-curated by Thea Quiray Tagle, Ph.D., Associate Curator at The Bell, and Nina Bozicnik, Senior Curator at the Henry Art Gallery.
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Talent and tenacity landed a member of Brown’s Class of 2025 in New York, where he is co-producing the hit play “John Proctor Is The Villain.”
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Rhode Island PBS
August 8, 2025
Polly Bessette Finds Creative Community Through Songwriting at Brown Arts Institute
The Rhode Island folk singer-songwriter embraces vulnerability, feedback, and collaboration in a workshop setting, turning solitary music-making into shared inspiration.
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News from Brown
June 26, 2025
Staff Spotlight: Blending art and technology, Leo Selvaggio helps power creativity at Brown
As the Brown Arts Institute’s senior creative technologist, Selvaggio maintains seven of the University’s artistic spaces with meticulous oversight and a tenacious pursuit of creativity.
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