Please join us for the opening reception of the 40th Annual Juried Student Exhibition. Students from across campus submitted work for this exhibition curated by David Antonio Cruz and Akiko Ichikawa. The exhibition is on view from Feb 26 - Mar 20, 2020.

There will be no Lab Monitor Hours and no Equipment Checkout Hours during the Long Winter Weekend. Normal hours will resume on Wed. Feb 19.

PROVIDENCE - Shakti, Hinduism's divine feminine, is a sensual, fertile, maternal, and fierce energy. Wendy Edwards manifests Shakti in paintings and pastels. They're perfect mediums for it - sumptuous, touchable, potentially incandescent. Edwards's show "Luscious," at Brown University's David Winton Bell Gallery, features more than 50 works made since she began teaching at Brown in 1980.

Claire Pentecost investigates the boundary between nature and artificiality, with a focus on food, agriculture, bio-engineering and anthropogenic climate change

Open lab hours give students enrolled in VA courses the chance to work in the studio outside of class time.

Check out the "Semester Overview" poster for a full listing of courses offered in the Department of Visual Art this semester. You can also stop by the front office in room 222 for a printout. Or check out course offerings online here. This poster also highlights upcoming VA events, Visiting Artist Lectures, Equipment Checkout hours, and Lab Monitor start dates and hours.

This interdisciplinary course explores theoretical and practical ways that art can engage community. Methods for social interventions, collaboration, and the notion of art as activism will be investigated. Part studio and part seminar, this course examines our role in society as cultural producers

The Department of Visual Art office will be closed from Mon. Dec. 22 - Fri. Jan 3. The office will resume normal hours on Mon. Jan 6.

The final night for Open Studio Hours is Wednesday, December 11. Studios will not reopen until the Spring semester.

All studios are closed for Thanksgiving Recess from Sun. Nov 24 through Sun. Dec 1. Regular Studio Monitor Hours will resume Mon. Dec 2 at 8:30pm.

All studios will be closed from Sun. Nov 24 through Sun. Dec 1. Regular Studio Monitor Hours will resume Mon. Dec 2.

Nature of Interpretation is a studio art course with a seminar component. We will consider science and scientific images as conceptual frameworks for making and looking at art images.

Brown Visual Art Honors class of 2020 group exhibition by Jose Garcia, Brian (Jeong Woo) Kim, John Lhota, Isabela Lovelace, Madeline Mahoney, Sophia Meng, Eve O’Shea, Gus Reed, Claire Schlaikjer, Caitlin Takeda, Miranda Van-Boswell, and Miranda Villanueva.

Artist and filmmaker Carla B. Guttmann is a native of Montréal, Canada. She graduated from Brown University (BA, Phi Beta Kappa) in 1993 and received her Master of Fine Arts in Media Design in 2010 from the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany.

Please join us for the Department of Visual Art DIAP (Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan) Committee Town Hall with student committee members Sabrina Arezo, Caitlin Takeda, and Miranda Villanueva. This is a time for students to bring up suggestions, thoughts, and concerns on the topic of diversity and inclusion within the Department of Visual Art.

The Rhode Island State House art collection contains dozens of works, by many renowned painters, but with a somewhat limited subject matter focused on powerful men in dark suits. For a broader aesthetic, descend the marble stairs to the dimly lit basement where lobbyists and bureaucrats prowl on General Assembly nights and a new contemporary art exhibition is brightening the hallways.

Tickets for the upcoming Carla Guttman Artist Talk will be released on Wed. Oct 23 at 8am. The lecture will take place on Wed. Nov 6 at 5pm in the List Art Building. Register here once available.

Brendan Fernandes (b. 1979, Nairobi, Kenya) is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Currently based out of Chicago, Brendan’s projects address issues of race, queer culture, migration, protest and other forms of collective movement.

Please join us at ICERM to enjoy this third in a series of five panel discussions on Math + Art. These discussions feature participants in ICERM’s Illustrating Mathematics Fall 2019 program, artists, and RISD faculty. The panels focus on the different ways in which artists and mathematicians approach mathematical concepts. We expect a dynamic conversation that will spark continued dialogue and future collaborations.

Sanford Biggers’ work is an interplay of narrative, perspective and history that speaks to current social, political and economic happenings while also examining the contexts that bore them. His diverse practice positions him as a collaborator with the past through explorations of often overlooked cultural and political narratives from American history

Few filmmakers build on the intimacy of the gaze like RaMell Ross, who is part of the new wave of artists working with the documentary form to reveal the inner logic of relationships through careful observation and aesthetic innovation.

The Department of Visual Art welcomes our newest staff member David Riley, who will now serve as the Sculpture Safety Assistant in the List Art Building. David is an artist and designer living in Providence, RI. David is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where he studied in the Department of Furniture Design.

Studio Monitor hours give students enrolled in VA courses the chance to work in the studio outside of class time. Studio Monitor hours are as follows:

Welcome back from the Summer break! The Department of Visual Art has an exciting year coming up, full of interesting visiting artist lectures and programs.

Please donate your surplus and unused art supplies in the designated bins in the List Art studios, or drop them off in the main office (room 222).

Our department will continue its work on the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP) in the 2019-2020 academic year.

The Department of Visual Art is looking for applications from qualified students to work in the labs/studios for the Fall 2019 semester.

We invite all currently enrolled VISA students to participate in Open Studios. This is a yearly event where we welcome the public into our studios and classrooms to showcase the artwork being made by students taking classes in the VA department.

The Department of Visual Art is looking to our student body to nominate two VA Concentrators to join Caitlin Takeda '20 as DUGs for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Want to make the BDW a more intuitive and accessible maker space? We're looking for feedback to help us improve the layout, machinery, and overall experience of the space.

The Department of Visual Art is looking to our student body to nominate two VA Concentrators to join Caitlin Takeda '20 as DUGs for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Studio Monitors Hours will be closed during Spring Break from Thurs. March 21 - Sun. March 31. Studio Monitor hours will resume on Mon. April 1.

Equipment Checkout will be closed during Spring Break from Mon. March 25 -Fri. March 29. Equipment Checkout hours will resume on Mon. April 1 at 1pm. If you need to borrow equipment over Spring Break.

Open ended narratives; mix media exploration and a special attention to the display of the physical object drive the new work of the Providence based painter and Department of Visual Art Professor Leslie Bostrom.

Junior VA Concentrators are invited to have lunch with the department Chair, Leslie Bostrom, as well as other VA faculty and staff to discuss applying for honors, what to expect from your senior year, and how to apply for the “Rising Senior” summer exhibition.

During the Long Winter Weekend from Sat. Feb 16 through Tues. Feb 19 there will be no Studio Monitor Hours and no Equipment Checkout hours in the List Art Building. Hours will resume on Wed. Feb 20.

If you had artwork accepted into the 39th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, please bring your work by the Granoff Center between 12pm-5pm. Artwork must be ready to install.

Please join the Department of Visual Art for a casual afternoon including lunch, card-making, flower-giving, and music-listening. Stop by and make a card and help us spread the love. Open to all.

Richard Fishman will be exhibiting new sculpture and hybrid drawings at Galerie Jean Brolly in Paris. This work, along with two earlier pieces, continues his preoccupation with life threatening, catastrophic events, both natural and man-made.

The submission process for the 39th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition is now open until Friday, February 1.

The submission process for the 39th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition is now open until January 27, 2019.

The Department of Visual Art office will be closed from Mon. Dec 24 through Tues. Jan 1 for staff winter break. The office will reopen on Wed. Jan 2.

Please donate your surplus and unused art supplies in the designated bins in the List Art studios, or drop them off in the main office (room 222).

Monumental Drawing is an immersive studio art course exploring expansive, experimental approaches to drawing.

The Department of Visual Art is looking for applications from qualified students to work in the labs/studios for the Spring 2019 semester.

Equipment Checkout will be closed from Monday, November 19 through Friday, November 23. It will reopen on Monday, November 26 at 1pm.

The submission process for the 39th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition opens on Monday, November 12.

Freeman’s talk will focus on her 2018 New York solo exhibition “Unsung”, portraits of little known Americans who bring to light current socio-political issues.

This year our department will be continuing the work of DIAP (Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan).

Jonathan Allmaier lives in New York, where his work is represented by James Fuentes. His work has been discussed in The New Yorker, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Hyperallergic, TimeOut New York, New American Paintings, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine, and other publications