Mar 21 – Jun 7, 2023
Back to School: Emerson Prison Initiative Students Reflect on Unexpected Lessons
Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street, 2nd Floor
Art at Watson
An initiative of the Watson Institute, Art at Watson illuminates the Institute's mission by enhancing social-science inquiry through the arts.
Art at Watson is proud to show works by Brown University students, faculty, alumni, and staff, as well as by artists from outside this community. If you would like your work to be considered for exhibition at the Institute, please fill out the form below.
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Apr 11 – Aug 31, 2022
Congahead: A Journey through Six Decades of Latin Percussion
An exhibition of photographs of Latin, jazz, and pop musicians taken over 60 years by Martin Cohen, founder of Latin Percussion, the world's largest hand percussion instrument company.
111 Thayer Street, second floor.
Mar 17 – May 31, 2022
Breaking Out: Immigrant Art from Confinement
An exhibition featuring greyscale pencil, crayon, and ballpoint pen drawings, handmade objects, and handwritten letters by adults of all genders who have experienced Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention.
111 Thayer Street, first floor
Mar 1, 2022
Art at Watson presents BENEATH THE POLAR SUN: Documentary Film Screening and Discussion
6:30 pm screening
8:00 pm Q&A with Professor Horvat and the filmmakers Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 1–31, 2022
Resisting Income Inequality
An international labor poster exhibition from the collection of Stephen Lewis.
111 Thayer Street, second floor
Feb 14 – Jun 4, 2022
Oct 13, 2021 – May 31, 2023
Seeing Silicon Valley
October 13, 2021 through May 31, 2023 A large-scale installation of portraits by photographer Mary Beth Meehan on the Watson Institute (111 Thayer Street) and in Stephen Robert ’62 Hall (280 Brook Street). Installation on view October 13, 2021 through May 31, 2023.
Aug 10 – Dec 17, 2021
Art at Watson presents Time Capsule
A digital exhibition of artworks created in response to the pandemic by students from Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design.
Virtual
Sep 29, 2020
Art at Watson presents This Rhode Called Art
6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Watch on Watson's YouTube Channel.
Sep 22, 2020 – Jan 31, 2021
Out of the Fray
A special focused group exhibition featuring the American flag as a symbol of critique.
Virtual
Jan 30 – May 31, 2020
Histories of Consequence: Works by Sandra Mayo
Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Oct 26, 2019
ReSeeding the City: Ethnobotany in the Urban
9:15 a.m. – 4:45 p.m. First floor, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Oct 10, 2019
Screening of the film ALBATROSS
Prior to the screening, ALBATROSS director Chris Jordan and award-winning photographer Mandy Barker will discuss plastic pollution in the world's oceans.
6 p.m. – 9 p.m. True North Classroom (101), Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Sep 9 – Dec 20, 2019
The Blink of Our Lifetimes: The Ecology of Dusk
(2019 Fall Semester) Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street, First Floor
Aug 29 – Sep 27, 2019
Jul 1 – Aug 30, 2019
Questioning the Body Politic (digital exhibit)
Weekdays, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St., First Floor
Apr 30 – Jul 15, 2019
Syrian Eyes of the World
Weekdays, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Stephen Robert '62 Hall, First Floor, 280 Brook Street
Apr 16, 2019
LatinXpression: A Conversation with the Artists
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 5 – May 3, 2019
Art at Watson presents Maré de Dentro: Race, Gender, and Life amid the Militarization of Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas
Weekdays, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Stephen Robert ’62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
2nd and 3rd floors
Feb 4 – Apr 26, 2019
LatinXpression: The Absorbing Nature of Line
Opening Reception Friday, February 8, 5-7pm
Weekdays 8:30am - 5pm Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, 111 Thayer Street, second floor
Jan 31 – Mar 22, 2019
Out of Time and Place: Recollections of the Arctic in Glass and Paper
Artist Talk Thursday, January 31, 3 p.m.
Weekdays, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Stephen Robert ’62 Hall, 280 Brook Street, First Floor
Nov 9 – Dec 13, 2018
Art at Watson presents The Displaced Language of Mesopotamia
Weekdays, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Watson Institute
Oct 26, 2018
Beyond Rum and Coca-Cola: The Radical and Creative Origins of the Steelpan
5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 1, 2018
Trapped in the Middle – Artist Talk and Opening Reception
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. 121 South Main Street, 3rd Floor, Providence, RI
Oct 1 – Dec 14, 2018
Trapped in the Middle: The Effect of Income and Health Inequality on the Middle Class in America
121 South Main Street, Providence, RI