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.

We may not be in the List Art Building at this time, but we are still here for you!

Interdisciplinary artist Helina Metaferia's debut solo exhibition in Boston is a showstopper. Running at Northeastern's 360 Gallery through April, 5, "Against a Sharp White Background" features a selection of work highlighting Metaferia's primary artistic objective: asserting the black body into sites of systematic oppression and owning those spaces as a person of color.

VA Junior Concentrators, please join Department Chair Leslie Bostrom, VA faculty, and staff for the Junior Class Lunch. We will discuss what to expect from your senior year, how to apply for Honors, submitting work for the Rising Seniors summer exhibition, and academic advising.

We are so thankful for the outpouring of support we have received in honor of Wendy Edwards, Professor of Visual Art, who will retire from Brown this semester after forty years of dedicated service. A passionate supporter of arts education and an inspiring figure on College Hill, Professor Edwards will be greatly missed.

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