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.