Artist@Work: Building the Artistic Innovators Collective

This artistic process course introduces students to the work, activities, and creative activity of Brown Arts Institute’s Artistic Innovators Collective (AIC), a fluid group of around forty artists from across the globe who regularly engage with Brown in a variety of ways: to push the boundaries of discipline, to teach, to work, to experiment, to safely fail and take risks, to undertake rigorous and long-term exchange with our campus and surrounding communities. For this course, BAI Artistic Director Avery Willis Hoffman invites Visiting Professor of the Practice Emil J. Kang (Mellon Foundation) to help shape and structure the AIC, in conversation and collaboration with the artists themselves. Students in this course will directly engage with AIC artists to discover their specific professional and artistic needs, track projects in progress and future dreaming, and begin to build programmatic structures.