New Creative Arts Center's First "Performance" is Underway
The latest in a series of transformative changes to the University's campus is underway at 154 Angell Street, adjacent to the Brown Office Building. There, the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for Creative Arts - designed by internationally-renowned architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro - is presently under construction.
The center's dramatic design will encourage the conversations, partnerships, and teamwork that will propel Brown to the forefront of artistic research, performance, and production. When completed, the 35,000-square-foot facility will feature a 200-seat recital hall and 35mm screening facility, three flexible production spaces, a recording studio, multimedia lab, technical shop, and a physical media lab for production and research in sensors, robotics, and physical computing. Individual project studios, an art gallery, "smart" classrooms, and "living rooms" designed as breakout spaces for students and faculty will also be incorporated. Additionally, an outdoor amphitheater will be wired for sound and video, allowing outdoor performances, film screenings and installations. And, almost in the nature of "performance art," the construction can be followed via live webcam.
Alumni and parents—led by Martin J. Granoff LHD '06 hon., P'93, a member of the Corporation—have already raised funds for the full project amount, including an endowment for the building's ongoing operating and maintenance.
"The Creative Arts Center will be phenomenal for Brown," said Granoff. "It will bring together the best and brightest students, taught by an extraordinary faculty, and give them a unique architectural environment designed for collaboration, experimentation and excellence in all of the arts."
Richard Fishman, professor of visual art and director of the Creative Arts Center at Brown, agrees: "The Creative Arts Center will transform the way the arts interact across disciplines and advance innovative approaches to teaching, research, and production."
To learn more about the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for Creative Arts and other capital projects, visit the Building Brown website.
