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

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