Timely

• Undergraduates: please note these March 1 deadlines: 1. proposing an Independent Concentration; declaring a personal leave for the Summer 2021 term for semester 01 students;  and 3. selecting the departmental ceremony in which they wish to obtain their diplomas. 

• HIAA alumna, Divya Rao Heffley (PhD ’10) will present a talk on March 11 at noon entitled “Civically Engaged Public Art in Pittsburgh: People, Place, History, Memory," co-sponsored by the department and the Center for Public Humanities. Heffley is Associate Director at the Office of Public Art in Pittsburgh.
• Spring is in the air (but so is COVID), so why not go outdoors to explore public art at Brown? Visit Brown's public art web page to browse through the works of art that have been sited on Brown’s campus, and consider taking a walk (with a mask on) to find the pieces that are currently up! 

Happenings

• Mar. 1 @ 4 pm: The CSREA will host a conversation with Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra about their Sundance award-winning film The Infiltrators, which tells the true story of Latinx activists who purposefully land themselves in ICE detention centers so that they can stop deportations. Please register to attend and receive access to the film. 
• Mar. 4 @ noon: Tune into “Aligning Your Work and Your Values,” a panel discussion about operationalizing antiracism in cultural heritage institutions, presented by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities.
• Mar. 4 @ 5:30 pm:  The Boston Museum of Fine Arts presents "How Museums Work: Exhibitions," Panelists include Eben Haines, artist and co-founder of Shelter in Place Gallery, MFA intern and Bunker Hill Community College student, Adriona King who will share her perspective on museum exhibitions through a remote internship at the MFA, and Kyla Hygysician, MFA exhibition designer.
• Mar. 4 @ 6:30 pm: The next installment of the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) Arts & Performance Series will explore resistance art with interdisciplinary artists Sheida Soleimani and Kamee Abrahamian. Register at: http://tinyurl.com/SWANASheida-Kamee. 
• Mar. 4 @ 7 pm: FirstWorks will host a panel featuring members of the Rhode Island cultural community, including the creators of the multimedia performance CARTOGRAPHY and BAI director Avery Willis Hoffman, that examines how the arts represent migration and immigrant narratives. Registration required. 
• Mar. 5 @ 6 pm: Magic Lantern Cinema will present a three-channel screening of A Marvelous Entanglement, Isaac Julian’s filmic homage to the Italian-Brazilian architect, Lina Bo Bardi. The event will also feature a series of short videos by interdisciplinary artist Fields Harrington. Registration required. 
• Mar. 12 @ 1 pm: The Department of Visual Art will hold its annual Alumni Panel. Dara Bayer ’08, Sofie Ramos ’13, Scott Snibbe ’91, and Kah Yangni ’14 will talk about how their journeys as visual and performance artists, educators, and curators have changed since graduating from Brown. 
• Mar. 30 @ 6 pm: Purchase your tickets now for the Providence After School Alliance's (PASA) “Radical Reimagining,” a conversation between acclaimed actors Ethan Hawke and Trinity Rep's Joe Wilson Jr. about youth arts education. Proceeds from ticket purchases will fund after-school programs for Providence youth.

Opportunities for Undergraduates  

• The submission deadline to the 2021 AZ Awards has been extended to Mar. 1. The A+ Award for Student Work category will award a $5,000 cash prize to the winner and publish the work of all finalists. 
• Theories in Action provides graduating seniors the opportunity to showcase the research, leadership activities, artistic productions, and other meaningful endeavors undertaken during their time at Brown. Applications due by March 7.
• Apply to be a staff writer, artist, editor, or web designer for Catalyst Journal, Brown’s science-inspired literary arts publication. No writing experience required! Applications are due March 7 and questions can be directed to catalyst.brown@gmail.com. 
• Asterisk* Journal of Art, run by Yale undergraduate students, is looking for essays and creative works that challenge dominant narratives in art. Submission guidelines and previous issues are available. Deadline is March 10.
• Applications to the Royce Fellowship, via UFunds, are due on Mar. 15. The program awards $4,000 to each undergraduate fellow as they carry out independent engaged research projects. The Swearer Center offers a workshop on March 4 at noon to help with the application process

Opportunities for Graduate Students 

• Apply by Mar. 1 for a Fellowship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The museum has several opportunities available for current graduate students as well as postdocs.
• The New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians is accepting applications until March 1 for the John Coolidge Research Fellowship and the Retting Fellowship.
• Alderville First Nation Scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson will facilitate a workshop on March 5 at noon, about Indigenous land-based pedagogies, with a special focus on gender, for graduate students, faculty, staff, and other RI educators. Registration required.
• Submit by March 5 to the Harvard-Yale-Brown Conference in Book History taking place May 5. They invite papers on any aspect of the History of the Book. See complete submission guidelines for more information.
• The Graduate Student Council has three funds open for application on a rolling basis until the end of the semester. Internal event funding will award up to $400, recognized group funding will award up to $500, and student-led initiative funding will award up to $250. Direct questions to gsc-funding@brown.edu. 
• Apply by Mar. 15 for the United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship, designed to support research and publications on the history, art, architecture, or landscape of the U.S. Capitol and related buildings. Graduate students and scholars may apply for periods ranging from one to twelve months. Applications should be e-mailed in PDF format to Dr. Michele Cohen, Curator and Architect of the Capitol at mcohen@aoc.gov. Visit www.uschs.org for more information.

How do we "read pictures?"

HIAA graduate student Kuan-Hung Liu co-curated an exhibition Text, Paratext, and Images with RISD alum Kimia Rahnavardi that runs through June 19, 2021 at the RISD Museum.

Kuan-Hung writes, "the exhibition focuses on the relationship between text and images, and how paratext could influence the way we read pictures. The sections in the exhibition are organized based on the processes used from the creation to the circulation and interpretation of the objects, as well as their materials. Besides their rich paratext and context, these images are also open for new interpretations and connections."