Brown Arts

PVD+ Projects

Interdisciplinary and collaborative programs created by community members in Providence and beyond

IGNITE Series PVD+ Projects

These exciting projects, catalyzed by Providence and Rhode Island-based artists, are developmed with support from Brown Arts IGNITE. Please Please join us and engage with these artists and their evolving works at Brown and beyond.

On Now/Up Next

Gathering | November 1—2, 2024
Exhibition | November 1—17, 2024
PERFORMANCE | EXHIBITION | COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
A two-day gathering of artists and earth workers engaging with death and burial through performance, installation, and storytelling.

Concluded

Installation: September 20 — October 9, 2024
Event: September 28, 2024, 12 — 2 PM
PUBLIC ART | PUBLIC HISTORY | CONVERSATION
A public artwork documenting the history of Providence’s Chinese communities and the city’s active policies of exclusion.
September 12 - October 6, 2024
INSTALLATION | ARCHIVE | MULTIMEDIA
An immersive video installation and experimental documentary piece about the Newport Navy Sex Scandal of 1919
September 7, 2024, 6:30PM
PERFORMANCE | COMPOSITION | POETRY
A multidisciplinary work that reimagines pansori, a traditional Korean musical form that combines improvisation, song, story, and gesture.
August 24, 2024, 6PM & 7PM
PERFORMANCE | TECHNOLOGY
A hybrid, devised performance piece investigating our place in a data-filled world and the possibility of more equitable futures alongside AI.