BAI inaugural professor of the practice RaMell Ross and assistant professor of visual art at Brown University speaks to Variety critic Ben Croll on his first feature length film, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, which won a Gotham Award for best documentary in 2018. "I don’t think that there’s anything more powerful artistically, as it relates to society and civilization, than the documentary film," says Ross.

Multimedia artist Edgar Arceneaux is interviewed by Providence Journal art critic Alexander Castro about his provocative work Until, Until, Until... that questions and reconsiders historical narratives around race, presented by the Brown Arts Initiative. Read the interview here.

Boston Globe correspondent Cate McQuaid highlights concurrent exhibitions about the art of protest at Brown University. Read the article here.

Providence, RI…The Brown Arts Initiative (BAI) at Brown University today announced a dynamic roster of presenters in the upcoming Warren and Allison Kanders Lecture Series, an annual series of presentations and student interactions led by prominent contemporary artists and art-world luminaries that launched last year.

Brown University talks with Mark Seto on the occasion of his first public performance conducting the Brown University Orchestra. Read the release here.