Visual Art

Concentration Requirements

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Concentration Requirements

Students must file their concentration declaration by the end of their 5th semester. Once a student's concentration is declared, they are paired with a regular VA faculty member who will be their Concentration Advisor.

You can declare your concentration online via Brown's advising website, ASK.

You may be eligible to substitute select RISD courses in studio art or art history courses for some of your concentration requirements. 

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A total of 11 courses are required for the VA concentration.

These are the VA Concentration requirements if you declared your concentration after the Fall '24 semester. For students who declared prior to the Fall '24 semester, see VA Concentration requirements here.

 

Category I: Analog 2D

  • VISA0100 - Studio Foundation
  • VISA0160 - Painting Foundation

Category II: Digital & 4D

  • VISA0120 - Foundation Media
  • VISA0140 - Photography Foundation
  • VISA0150 - Digital 2D Foundation

Category III: Spatial & 3D

  • VISA0130 - Sculpture Foundation
  • VISA0170 - Spatial Dynamics

Five additional upper level studio courses are required. Only one ISP or GISP can be counted towards the concentration. A minimum of three upper studio courses must be taken within the Brown Visual Art Department. Including the Foundation courses,
a total of six studio are required to be taken within the department.

Three HIAA courses in Art History are required. One course on 20th and/or 21st century art, one on non-Western practice, and one HIAA seminar. HIAA courses in Architectural Practice cannot be counted towards the Art History requirement.

See HIAA course offerings

Non-credit bearing project usually presented during the 7th or 8th semester.