Student Life

Whether or not you seek a degree in the performing or visual arts, there are many opportunities at Brown to satisfy your inner auteur. Here are just a few of your options.

For theater there is Brownbrokers, which presents a full-scale student-written and student-directed musical each fall, and PW (Production Workshop), another student-run group that just might be willing to produce that brilliant show you’ve got stuffed away in your desk.

Musicians can join up with the Brown University Orchestra, Chorus, or Marching Band. But you might try to expand your musical vocabulary with the Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble, Old Time String Band, or the Ghanaian Drumming Ensemble.

A wide range of dance opportunities are available through the Department of Theater, Speech and Dance and through independently run student groups. From the Brown Dance Ensemble to New Works, World Traditions to Fusion, there is a vast array of opportunities for advanced, intermediate and beginning dancers alike.

The Photo Lab and Multimedia Lab are available through the Visual Arts Department for developing photos and then manipulating them.

The Rhode Island School of Design

Brown also collaborates with its neighbor on College Hill, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).  The two schools recently started the Brown/RISD Project, a five-year, combined program which provides a bachelor’s degree from each school.  Brown students who are not enrolled in this program can still take up to four classes at RISD, can access the RISD Library and RISD Museum of Art, and can take a wide variety of art classes through Brown’s Visual Art Department.

And, as you might expect, it’s always fun to see what happens when Ivy League kids meet up with art school kid. Here are a couple examples of recent collaborative projects between Brown and RISD students:

Departments

Theatre, Speech, and Dance
Visual Art
Music

Galleries

David Winton Bell Gallery
Sarah Doyle Gallery
Haffenreffer Museum
RISD Museum of Art