James May, a Ph.D. student in Brown's Music and Multimedia Composition program, presented an immersive installation inspired by his time living in New Orleans in April 2026. In a featured video, May describes the project, the ideas that animate him, and how he translated those ideas into eventually there's nowhere.

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.

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.

The exhibition showcases experimental works by two Brown alums, blurring the boundary between the digital and physical.

BAI Director Sydney Skybetter welcomes new and returning students to find their creative home at the Brown Arts Institute, and previews some of BAI's courses and programs on offer this fall.

The Brown Arts Institute announced the Prizma Arts and Research Residency last month.

A recent NYT feature spotlighted a fascinating intersection of dance and space science — with BAI’s own Sydney Skybetter at the center of it. Skybetter, BAI’s Director, professor at Brown and founder of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces, organized a weeklong "space camp" in Brooklyn that brought dancers, physicists, and planetary scientists together to explore movement in weightless environments.