Carrie Mae Weems: Varying Shades of Brown
September 18-December 3, 2023 (Concluded)
VISUAL ART | MULITMEDIA | MUSIC
A Campus Art Activation
Carrie Mae Weems: Varying Shades of Brown
September 18-December 3, 2023 (Concluded)
VISUAL ART | MULITMEDIA | MUSIC
A Campus Art Activation
An Artistic Innovators Residency
Across the 2023 fall semester, Carrie Mae Weems and Brown Arts Institute invite artists, thinkers, and waymakers to engage in an array of conversations, performances, and gatherings, including one of Weems’s large-scale convenings. Members of the Brown and Providence communities, and beyond, are encouraged to join these ongoing dialogues and debates around the career-spanning themes of her work.
Brown Arts’ IGNITE Series uplifts the spirit of artistic collaboration across Brown, Providence, the Rhode Island region, and beyond. Ignite your creative curiosity through this multi-year series of programs, activations, interventions, and investigations.
Exhibitions and Activations
About the Artist
Carrie Mae Weems, inaugural Agnes Gund Professor of the Practice of Arts and Social Justice at Brown University (Spring 2023), is a conceptual artist who unpacks and confronts constructions of race and femininity in the pursuit of new models to live by. Grounded in the specificity of her lived experience as a Black woman but universal in its explorations of family relationships, cultural identity, power structures, and social hierarchy, her artistic practice is primarily photographic but also incorporates text, fabric, audio, installation, and video. Through image and text, film, performance, and her many convenings with individuals across a multitude of disciplines, Weems has created a complex body of art that investigates family relationships, gender roles, racism, and the consequences of power. Weems has received a multitude of awards, grants, and fellowships including the MacArthur Award and the National Endowment of the Arts, among many others. She is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery and is currently the Artist in Residence at Syracuse University. She lives in Syracuse, New York with her husband Jeffrey Hoone who directed Light Work for almost four decades.
What / Where / When / How
Date:
November 9 - December 3, 2023
Location:
The Lindemann Performing Arts Center
144 Angell St, Providence, RI
Hours:
Daily: 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Thursdays: 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
*Recommended last entry is 45 minutes before closing.
Date:
September 18 - December 3, 2023
Location:
Cohen Gallery
The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell St, Providence, RI
Hours:
Daily: 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Thursdays: 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Date:
September 18 - December 3, 2023
Location:
David Winton Bell Gallery
Albert and Vera List Art Center
64 College St, Providence, RI
Hours:
Daily: 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Thursdays: 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Closed on the following dates: October 9 for Indigenous People's Day, November 22-24 for the Thanksgiving Holiday
Date:
September 18 - December 3, 2023
Location:
Albert and Vera List Art Center Lobby
64 College St, Providence, RI
Hours:
Daily: 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Thursdays: 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Dates/Hours:
November 10: 12pm-10pm
November 11: 10am-10pm
Locations:
The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell St, Providence, RI
The Lindemann Performing Arts Center
144 Angell St, Providence, RI
And other locations on Brown’s campus
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Varying Shades of Brown received generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Hearthland Foundation, and Jeffrey F. Hines '83 MD '86 and Sivan Hines '84 MD '87.