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.

The maximum occupancy for the spray booth on the 5th floor of the List Art Building in one (1) person. If someone is using the spray booth, please wait outside the door, at least six (6) feet from the entrance. If you are unsure if someone is inside, please knock several times- it is very loud inside and the person may not hear you the first time.

Equipment Checkout and Studio Monitor Hours will be suspended on Monday, Oct 12 for Indigenous Peoples' Day. Monitor Hours will resume on Tues. Oct 13.

Are you waiting on a kits for your class and still under quite period? If so, mail services is working with students to request mail/packages that contain critical items that students need urgently such as medications, medical devices, necessary legal documentation, or similarly essential items. Please fill out the Quiet Period Critical Mail/Package Request Form.

Senior VA Concentrators! Please join Dept. of Visual Art chair Leslie Bostrom, faculty, and staff for Chat & Check In- a virtual luncheon to talk about your capstone exhibition, graduation requirements, and new policies and procedures in the department. You will receive a Zoom link from the department.

Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the United States border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War

Janine Antoni is a visual artist who was born in Freeport, Bahamas in 1964. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is known for her unusual processes. Her body is both her tool for making and the source from which her meaning arises. Antoni’s early work transformed materials like chocolate and soap and used everyday activities like bathing, eating, and sleeping as sculptural processes.

Right now we are not sure whether we will be in-person this semester or not, but we certainly hope so! To that end 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.

The artist Ayana Evans has been making grueling, yet nuanced performances using her own body to help audiences understand what black women often face. In Times Square, emptied by the pandemic, the artist Ayana Evans wears her signature catsuit.

A Beautiful Struggle: Black Feminist Futurism is an interdisciplinary contemporary art exhibition that explores the integration of Black feminist and Afrofuturist ideas. Afrofuturism is a creative and cultural genre that examines perspectives of the African diaspora based in a communal reimagining of the past - as well as envisioned futures - while considering themes of identity, escapism, magical realism, and technology.

This is the final issue for the Spring '20 semester. The LIST List will resume in the fall.

Please help us welcome the 2020-2021 DUGs Sylvia Atwood '22, Rebecca Ho ‘21, and Tèo Obiaya '21. These students are elected each year to help their peers connect with one another, with faculty, and with alumni. VA DUGs participate in concentration fairs, give guided tours of our facilities to prospective students, and help organize concentrator events throughout the year.

The University will host Virtual Degree Conferral Ceremonies for those who have earned their Brown degrees on Sunday, May 24, 2020, at 1 p.m. Visit the Virtual Degree Ceremony website here for additional information.

Congratulations, RaMell! RaMell Ross is one of seven faculty members in the Brown community to receive an award that recognizes exceptional scholarship. Read more about it here.

Brown Arts Initiative is pleased to introduce Your Corner of the World, a series of conversations and interviews.

Brown Arts Initiative is pleased to launch BAI at Home, a new website offering online events, collaborative arts projects you can get involved with, resources for artists, live concerts, interviews from the broader arts community, and more.