Brown Arts Institute

As Brown’s creative and intellectual home for all art forms, the Brown Arts Institute is advancing artistic experimentation, meaningful research, and community partnerships.

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Cultivating Creative Inquiry and Artistic Innovation 

The arts are fundamental to the Brown experience. Artistic practice is a catalyst for learning and a means to understand vital questions facing humanity. They provide our campus community with opportunities to braid theory, practice, and research to produce thought-provoking works on a wide range of topics.

The Brown Arts Institute (BAI) is central to the wider Brown arts ecosystem. Since its launch in 2021, the BAI has solidified Brown as the destination of choice for student artists, researchers, and working professionals who want to combine rigorous modes of inquiry with cutting-edge, interdisciplinary practice. 

“ The arts are an inspiring research endeavor in and of themselves as well as a collaborative means of supporting work in other disciplines. The goal of the Brown Arts Institute is to ensure that every student gets meaningful exposure to the arts by the time they graduate, and has the opportunity to actively engage in arts research and practice. ”

Sydney Skybetter Director, Brown Arts Institute; Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies

This is a time of tremendous growth for the arts at Brown. The opening of The Lindemann Performing Arts Center and the expansion of the Brown Arts Institute are making possible wholly new student and faculty contributions to the arts. The BAI is enabling campus-wide engagement with the most challenging topics of our time, and prepares students to creatively engage in the careers of their choosing.

Critical investments will broaden the institute’s capacity to advance artistic experimentation, meaningful research, and community partnerships, building on the University’s exceptional legacy of creativity:

  • Director's Funds to provide flexible support for BAI programming, such as visiting artist collaborations, student training and performances, exhibition support, curriculum development, and research initiatives
  • SPRINT/BrownConnect funds to support students embarking on internships and research opportunities in the arts
  • Public art and exhibition funding to preserve and expand Brown’s permanent collections at the David Winton Bell Gallery and its artistic installations across campus

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For information about specific giving opportunities, contact:

Sarah Santos
Director of Development, Academic Initiatives
+1 (401) 863-1894
sarah_santos@brown.edu

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