If you are enrolled in a VISA course which supplies a course kit (materials to complete coursework), you can pick up your art supply kits from the Brown Bookstore beginning Wednesday, May 26th through Friday, June 18th. If you do not pick up your department-supplied kits during this window, you may be asked to purchase the items out-of-pocket to complete coursework.

If you are enrolled in a VISA course which supplies a course kit (materials to complete coursework), you can pick up your art supply kits from the Brown Bookstore beginning Wednesday, May 26th through Friday, June 25th. If you do not pick up your department-supplied kits during this window, you may be asked to purchase the items out-of-pocket to complete coursework.

Please join us for a virtual celebration for the Class of 2021 Senior Visual Art Concentrators! This celebration for the Class of '21 Visual Art Concentrators will feature special performances by VA alumni, a toast from Leslie Bostrom, and a message from the Ann Belsky Moranis Award recipient Ceyhun Firat '21. Seniors will receive a Zoom link directly from the Department.

Fall '21 Leave Request
Currently enrolled students who are expected to enroll this Fall '21 but would rather be on a personal leave should file a leave request in the ASK portal (under "Student Petitions") by May 1, 2021; speaking with an academic advising dean is part of the process.

Pottery has proven to be a critical archaeological resource due to its widespread use and accessibility throughout time. Sometimes archaeologists find whole pots during their excavations, but more often than not they encounter broken pieces called sherds. This exhibit looks at archaeologists’ experiences with sherds and what these seemingly insignificant pieces of pottery can tell us about the past. Curated by Jinette Jimenez ’21 for the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.

The Department of Visual Art is currently hiring students in the role of Studio Safety Monitor for the Summer 2021 semester. This is an in-person, onsite position. Positions are available in the following studios: Painting Studio and Darkroom. Apply via Workday. (Log on to Workday, use the search term "Find Student Jobs" and look for the listing "Dept. of Visual Art | Studio Safety Monitor (Onsite)".

The Department of Visual Art welcomes Junior VISA Concentrators to apply to the Honors Program for the 2021-2022 academic year. The details of the program are outlined on our website here. Once you are ready to apply, follow this link to the application (sign in with your Brown username and password). If you have any questions, please meet with your advisor, or contact Olanda Estrada or Leslie Bostrom.

Vanessa German is a visual and performance artist based in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewood. Homewood is the community that is the driving force behind German’s powerful performance work, and whose cast-off relics form the language of her copiously embellished sculptures. As a citizen artist, German explores the power of art and love as a transformative force in the dynamic cultural ecosystem of communities and neighborhoods. She is the founder of Love Front Porch and the ARThouse, a community arts initiative for the children of Homewood.

The Department of Visual Art is looking to our student body to elect two VA Concentrators to join Sylvia Atwood '22 as DUGs for the 2021-2022 academic year. VA DUGs are chosen each year to help students connect with one another, with faculty, and with alumni. VA DUGs participate in concentration fairs, provide a unique perspective to inquiries from prospective students, organize the open studio and other social events (online and in-person), and assist with an annual juried student art exhibition.

This year's panelists are Dara Kwayera Imani Bayer ’08, Sofie Ramos ’13, Scott Snibbe ’91, and Kah Yangni ’14. The discussion and Q&A will be moderated by Heather Bhandari ’97. A registration link to the event will be sent directly to all currently enrolled VISA students.

If you are enrolled in a VISA course which supplies a course kit (materials to complete coursework), Monday, March 1 is the last day you can pick items up from the Brown Bookstore.

he Department of Visual Art welcomes Junior VISA Concentrators to apply to the Honors Program for the 2021-2022 academic year. The details of the program are outlined on our website here. Once you are ready to apply, follow this link to the application (sign in with your Brown username and password). The deadline to apply for '22 Honors is Thursday, April 1 at 5pm. If you have any questions, please meet with your advisor, or contact Olanda Estrada or Leslie Bostrom.

There will be no Studio Monitor Hours during the Long Weekend. Normal monitor hours will resume on Wed. Feb 17. During this break, students enrolled in hybrid courses who have swipe access may still enter the building and designated studios with their ID. Certain equipment and machinery will be off limits when there is not a monitor present. All students must leave the building by 11pm daily.

Equipment Checkout will be closed for the Spring 2021 semester except for students in select courses. Only students currently enrolled in VISA0120, VISA1510, VISA1800C, VISA1900 and certain ISP students will be able to check out designated equipment beginning February 8. Equipment Checkout will be held Mondays and Wednesdays from 4-6pm by appointment only.

Firelei Báez casts diasporic histories into an imaginative realm, re-working visual references drawn from the past to explore new possibilities for the future. With a goal to reclaim power, Báez overlays figuration, symbolic imagery, and abstract gesture onto large-scale reproductions of found maps and documents. She populates these historically-loaded representations of space with change-making creatures—whose hybrid forms incorporate folkloric and literary references, textile pattern, plantlife, and wide-ranging emblems of healing and resistance—to present fictional alternative universes. The artist will be in conversation with Leticia Alvarado, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and American Studies at Brown University. In partnership with Brown Arts Initiative.

Studio Monitor hours give students enrolled in VISA courses the opportunity to work in our studios outside of class time.

Welcome back to another semester at Brown! Please pay attention to all signs in the building- we have worked out social distancing and traffic patterns in the List Art Building to keep you safe and yet still have some person-to-person class and critique time for our hybrid courses.

Be advised that the Department of Visual Art staff will be working remotely until Fri. Dec 18. VA Staff will not be available during Brown's Staff Winter Break from Dec 19-Jan 3. VA Staff will resume virtual availability on Mon. Jan 4.

We are excited to announce the artists that will be joining us virutally in the spring to talk about their work:

If you missed any of our Fall 2020 Virtual Artist Talk or you'd just like to experience them again, you can watch them online!

The Brown Arts Initiative is thrilled to welcome Avery Willis Hoffman as the inaugural artistic director of the BAI! 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.

Card access to the List Art Building will be removed for all students after Tuesday, November 24th. Students should not come to the building during Thanksgiving recess, remote reading period, or remote exam period.

Individual awards are available to VA Concentrators to support the purchase of supplies or materials for 3D/Sculpture, installation, or performance projects. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis for the 2020-21 academic year

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.