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Senior VA Concentrators, please join VA faculty, staff, and Department Chair Ed Osborn for lunch! This is just a check-in to see how everyone is doing at the start of the new semester and to talk about your upcoming Senior Thesis Capstone Exhibition and other graduation requirements. Check your email for the invite and please RSVP!

Information about the fall/spring gallery lottery, equipment checkout, monitor hours, and the VA concentrator Welcome Back BBQ.

Artist to Know: Heather McMordie - Inside Art with Michael Rose

From the Museum of Modern Art: In this tutorial, learn how to make collage like artists Romare Bearden, Hannah Höch, and others. Artist Helina Metaferia demonstrates various techniques, including how to source imagery, cutting, composition, pasting, and finishing.

We are pleased to announce that Becci Davis has accepted the position of Lecturer in Visual Art, effective July 1st, 2022. They will join the full-time Faculty in the Department of Visual Art. Becci will be responsible for overseeing the Foundations Program, as well as teaching VISA0100 and other courses.

The summer is the perfect time to explore the rich cultural offerings of Providence and the wider region – from the RISD Museum to DIY spaces, MIT’s Poetic Justice Project and the many festivals in Massachusetts.

Studio Clean-out: All personal items and projects need to be removed by these deadlines. Students may not store items in classrooms or studio past this deadline or over the summer. *Honors students have until May 26th to clean out their studios.

Rising Seniors Show: As rising senior VA concentrators, you'll have the chance to show your work alongside other soon-to-be-seniors. The exhibition runs from June 1 - September 15.

The deadline to apply to be considered for the 2022-2023 Honors program in Visual Art is Tuesday, April 26th. The Department of Visual Art welcomes Junior Visual Art Concentrators to apply to the Honors Program for the 2022-2023 academic year.

The Studio Safety Coordinator oversees the student use of the sculpture studio, which includes: metal shop, wood shop, CNC router, and student work stations. Ensure adherence to University safety protocols and help to maintain a clean, well-organized shop environment with fully functioning equipment.

BAI (Brown Arts Institute) is excited to begin bringing artists to campus in the coming years — and they would love to introduce them to you! When artists visit, they typically arrange lunches, tours, and other small group activities to welcome them to campus and connect them with students in the Brown community.

The Department of Visual Art welcomes Junior Visual Art Concentrators to apply to the Honors Program for the 2022-2023 academic year.

There will be no Monitor Hours and no Equipment Checkout during Spring Recess. Monitor Hours and Equipment Checkout will resume on Monday, April 4

Ghost of a Dream is the collaborative project of Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom. They make work about people’s hopes and dreams out of the ephemera created trying to attain those aspirations. They began working together in 2007 shortly after getting married and this collaboration has been their full-time practice ever since.

Flexible Flyer Award-- An award for a Junior or Senior Visual Art Concentrator. Independent concentrators may apply as long as they plan a career in some aspect of art

Kambui Olujimi was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn and received his MFA from Columbia University in New York City. Olujimi’s work challenges established modes of thinking that commonly function as “inevitabilities.” This pursuit takes shape through interdisciplinary bodies of work spanning sculpture,

There will be no Monitor Hours during the Long Weekend. Normal monitor hours will resume on Wed. Feb 23.

Tauba Auerbach is an artist and publisher working in New York. A life-long student of math and physics, their work contends with structure and connectivity on the microscopic to the universal scale. Auerbach often invents tools and techniques for inducing material behaviors, building on crafts in many disciplines. The artist’s hand is recognizable in work across painting, weaving, glass sculpture, photography, video, typography and musical instrument design.

Students currently enrolled in VISA courses can check out equipment to complete their coursework. Equipment Checkout is located in room 515, and is open from 1-3pm Monday-Friday.

Open to all currently enrolled VISA students. Space is limited to 18 students. Sessions are held from 8pm-10pm on Wednesdays starting on February 23rd in room 225.

The 42nd Annual Juried Student Exhibition is held in the spring semester of each year. The exhibition dates for 2022 are March 3rd to March 23rd. Students from any concentration are encouraged to submit their work in a variety of media and will receive assistance with the installation and publicity of the exhibition

Be advised that the Department of Visual Art staff will be working remotely until the New Year. Please reach out via email with any questions or concerns that may arise between now and then.

The last night for Monitor Hours will be Wednesday, December 8th, with the exception of the Darkroom, which will end on Sunday, Dec 12th.

There will be no Monitor Hours in observance of Thanksgiving Recess from Sunday, November 21 through Sunday, November 28. Monitor Hours will resume on Monday, November 29. Students with swipe access to the building will still be able to access their studios during this time, but some of the equipment and machinery will be locked.

There will be no Equipment Checkout in observance of Thanksgiving Recess on Thursday, November 25 and Friday, November 26. Equipment Checkout will resume on Monday, November 29.

Submit your work for the 42nd Annual Juried Student Exhibition. All media accepted. All currently enrolled Brown University students eligible. Submissions close January 28, 2022. Submission website opening soon.

Centering women of color as protagonists, “Helina Metaferia: Generations” uses collage, video, and installation to explore how inherited trauma informs present-day experiences.

The Department of Visual Art is hosting a nude figure model drawing session at the List Art Building. This opportunity is open to all currently enrolled VISA students. From 8pm-10pm on every other Wednesday beginning Wed. Oct 6 until Wed. Nov 17, students will have the opportunity to join a group of peers for an evening of figure drawing. Space is limited.

José Parlá has emerged in the past decade as one of his generation’s most fervent champions of painting, working for more than twenty years to establish a style of that transforms the language of the street into a hybrid form of abstraction and urban realism.

Date by which sophomores entering their 5th semester must file their concentration declaration forms via ASK to avoid having a “No Concentration” hold placed against their Banner registration. (5:00 p.m. EDT deadline).

Monitor Hours will be closed on Monday, October 11th in observation of Indigenous Peoples' Day. Monitor Hours will be held on Sunday, October 10th (with the exception of the Book Arts Studio) and resume on Tuesday, October 12th.

María Magdalena Campos-Pons combines and crosses diverse artistic practices, including photography, painting, sculpture, film, video, and performance. Her work addresses issues of history, memory, gender, and religion; it investigates how each one of these themes informs identity formation.