Two dozen Brown community members and Providence-area residents recently had the rare chance to perform in “What Problem?,” directed and choreographed by Bill T. Jones, at the VETS Auditorium.
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A podcast series featuring conversations with arts luminaries, hosted by performing artist Helga Davis. Guests include Glenn Ligon, Claudia Rankine, Carrie Mae Weems, Arthur Jafa, and Tricia Rose, among others.
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FirstWorks and Brown Arts Institute co-present ambitious artist residency exploring the themes two-time Tony winner’s newest performance “What Problem?”
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Called “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” the exhibition features paintings, sculptures and other works by prisoners, loved ones and advocates.
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Groundbreaking residency with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company features local community members, spoken text, and sound score in capstone performance of “What Problem?” on November 4, 2022
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BAI Announces 2022 Dornstein Grant Winners
Nina Fletcher, Kate Hao, Rai Mckinley Terry, MC Vigilante, and Florence Wallis are this year's recipients of The David Dornstein ’85 Artist Grant that will help fund their respective creative projects.
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At Brown, innovative course explores ‘responsible robotics’
By merging themes in dance and computer science, the course Choreorobotics 0101 is teaching the next generation of engineers how to create technology that minimizes harm and makes a positive impact on society.
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Brown names The Lindemann Performing Arts Center
The name for the center, set to open in 2023, honors Brown Corporation member Frayda Lindemann and her late husband, George Lindemann Sr., a longtime University supporter, business executive and art collector.
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Kleinman, who currently serves as provost at Rhode Island School of Design, will lead the development and implementation of academic programs within Brown University’s Arts Institute.
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BAI Announces Re-Examining Conservation
The Brown Arts Institute and Creature Conserve are pleased to present Re-Examining Conservation: Questions at the Intersection of the Arts & Sciences, an exhibition and symposium inviting viewers to consider what successful conservation looks like.
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The Brown Arts Institute has partnered with Creature Conserve, a Rhode Island nonprofit, to host an exhibition and symposium focused on wildlife conservation and human-animal relationships.
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Created by Maōri artist Lisa Reihana, the video installation “In Pursuit of Venus [infected]” adds nuance and Indigenous perspective to the first encounters between South Pacific islanders and European seafarers.
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The Brown Arts Institute’s free and open-to-the-public Songwriting Workshop provides a welcoming space for musicians from all walks of life to perform for one another and receive feedback on songs in progress.
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BAI Hosts Intercollegiate Tour of Uprooting Medea
The Brown Arts Institute launches an "Interrogating the Classics Series" with Uprooting Medea, a new exploration of Euripides’ Medea by the all-global majority U.K.-based Khameleon Productions.
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BAI Announces New Hires
The Brown Arts Institute announces two new key hires in transition from Initiative to Institute.
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Brown Daily Herald
Rites and Reason pioneers, 51 year later
University, Providence community reflect on theatre’s 51 year legacy
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Paul Myoda, co-designer of the installation that lights up New York City skies every year on Sept. 11 and now a Brown associate professor of visual art, vividly remembers the day the piece debuted nearly 20 years ago.
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“Arrows of Desire” features the work of two local artists who bonded over a shared love of nature and the poet William Blake during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Leaders at the Brown Arts Institute, which transitioned from the Brown Arts Initiative in July, are planning for a return to in-person performances, exhibitions, film screenings and more.
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Local artists work with Providence students to showcase school safety, inclusivity campaign
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The Brown Arts Institute (BAI) announced today that grants totaling $10,000 were awarded to five Rhode Island-resident practicing artists in support of project development.
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A collaboration between the Brown Arts Initiative, Providence Student Union, and artists Erik DeLuca, Jazzmen Lee-Johnson, and Umi Hsu highlights the Student Bill of Rights, which aims to secure a safe, healthy, and engaging school environment for all students.
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Jo Stewart and Victoria Xu are inaugural recipients of The David Dornstein ’85 Artist Grant to help fund their respective projects.
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The Brown Arts Initiative teamed up with members of the student organization Brown Esports and a local artist-producer to create a virtual concert venue replete with whimsical details.
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The annual staff art exhibition, curated by the Brown Arts Initiative, is an eye-opening reminder that Brown’s employees are as innovative, thoughtful and bold in their free time as they are at work.
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The interactive performance featured actors throughout the world, engaged in political commentary
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Brown Arts Initiative debuts David Dornstein ’85 Grant
New BAI grant allows graduating student artists to apply for up to $25,000
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The grant provides $50,000 annually to graduating seniors and graduate students who will be eligible for awards of up to $25,000 to aid exceptional creative experiences and research opportunities that might not be available elsewhere on campus.
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To celebrate the topping-off of its future hub for performing arts scholarship, University leaders joined construction workers and key project partners for a live-streamed virtual ceremony complete with on-site drone footage.
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Director of ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’ shares trials and triumphs of filmmaking career
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BAI student grants help realize creative visions like ‘Face the Data’
Greenberg ’21 collaborates with technologists on the formation of a digital portrait using day-to-day data usage
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As artistic director, Hoffman will curate arts programming, including work by students, faculty and external artists and organizations, building the visibility and quality of arts programming at the University.
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Protest posters distributed on the streets this summer culminate in an exhibition displaying artists’ call to action
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Students grapple with surveillance and resistance in BAI’s new interdisciplinary workshop
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The three-year series enters year one and addresses the issues of artistic connections and corrections to historical records and archives, and constructing personae as strategies of artistic, authorial, and performative creation.
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BAI Awards Protest Art Micro Grants
The Brown Arts Initiative (BAI) has awarded 16 grants of $300 each to student and community artists to help create protest work in response to the current systemic racial injustice protests.
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A new virtual arts hub, BAI at Home, details live-streamed concerts, online exhibitions and creative challenges for students, faculty, staff and members of the greater community.
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Community grants to support Rhode Island artists during pandemic
The Brown Arts Initiative’s Community Development Grants will fund the creation of new art for the 2020-21 season and help to support local artists who have been impacted by the pandemic.
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This spring, events presented by the Brown Arts Initiative and other campus arts entities give students and curious community members the chance to see how creators in every field execute their ideas.
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Thalia Field, the Brown Arts Initiative’s new faculty director and a professor of creative writing at the University, discussed her vision for the future of the arts at Brown.
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Edouard Duval-Carrié and the Art of Embedded Histories on view October 29 – December 13, 2019, accompanied by public programs
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Bell Gallery joins the Brown Arts Initiative to broaden cross-disciplinary programming, engagement and experimentation
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As part of a broader Brown Arts Initiative series on protest, art and activism, the exhibition includes photos and films documenting the Civil Rights Movement, the Texas prison system and undocumented workers from Mexico.
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University celebrates Brown Arts Initiative’s launch
With aspirations to be the primary destination for students who want to integrate the arts into a complete liberal arts education, Brown formally launched an effort to create new opportunities and collaborations for students, scholars, artists and community members.
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