Talks

Your corner of the world

Listen in as Brown Faculty and Staff talk with their colleagues, collaborators, and community about how they are weathering this moment from their own corners of the world.

May 23 1:00 pm

Bell Curator Kate Kraczon and Gabrielle Giattino of Bureau Gallery discuss how small to midsize galleries function in the arts ecosystem, how they nurture emerging artists, and how the COVID-19 crisis is affecting them in New York City and beyond.

Your Corner of the World:  Rebecca Schneider and Emilio Rojas

Rebecca Schneider (Professor, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies) in conversation with multidisciplinary artist Emilio Rojas. Schneider and Rojas will share their practice and close the conversation with a discussion about what it means to be an artist creating work during the time of COVID-19.

Your Corner of the World:  Enza García Arreazain and Adalber Salas Hernández

Enza García Arreaza is a short fiction writer and poet, who is currently a Fellow with the International Writers Project at Brown University. Adalber Salas Hernández is a poet, essayist and translator. Adalber is current a PhD Candidate, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, NYU. This event was conducted in Spanish, with subtitles available.

Your Corner of the World: What is Normal and Why Would We Want to Return to It?

Emeritus Professor of the Practice Andrew Schneider returns virtually to Brown for a discussion about what it means to be an artist in the age of COVID-19 with Raja Feather Kelley, Lars Jan, Rachel Chavkin, and Kamal Sinclair.

Your Corner of the World: Michelle Millar Fisher and Kate Kraczon

Michelle Millar Fisher, curator of contemporary decorative arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and co-founder of Art + Museum Transparency, and Kate Kraczon, curator at the David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, discuss how the COVID-19 crisis is affecting the museum field, and offer strategies on how we can move forward.⁠ ⁠

Your Corner of the World: Kirsten Johnson and Thalia Field

Kirsten Johnson ’87, in conversation with Faculty Director, Thalia Field.  Johnson is an accomplished cinematographer, whose directorial debut, Cameraperson, premiered at Sundance in 2016. Her most recent work, Dick Johnson is Dead, is a poignant, yet humorous portrayal of the filmmaker and her father confronting the end of life.

Your Corner of the World: Leslie Bostrom and Jo-Ann Conklin

Leslie Bostrom (Professor of Visual Art) and Jo-Ann Conklin, (Director, Bell Gallery) talked about their shared love of birding, and what they’re seeing outside their windows while sheltering in place.

 past panels and conversations

Activating Deconstructions in Dance & Performance

Interdisciplinary performance makers Sara Jimenez and Zavé Martohardjono will discuss their embodied approaches to invisible histories, dis/orientation, and deconstructing political and historical narratives, as well as address how their artistic practices are evolving in response to the current global health pandemic. Presented by Prof. J Dellecave, Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies.

Black Lavender 2020: Black Southern Gay Men Speak
A Conversation with E. Patrick Johnson and Lisa Biggs

The Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre invite you to participate in a special Black Lavender Experience. From Friday, April 10th through Thursday, April 16th, the event dove into the archive to present performances, keynotes, and conversations for reflection today. For additional content from the 2020 festival, click here.

Luscious: Paintings and Drawings By Wendy Edwards

Wendy Edwards in conversation with Ruth Fine, November 15, 2019 at the List Art Building, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Taylor Mac in Residence: Panel Discussion

This panel discussion, held Sept 15, 2019 at Brown University’s Granoff Center features Mac in conversation with theater arts and performance studies scholars David Román, Sean F. Edgecomb and Kareem Khubchandani.

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