Each academic year, the University of Rhode Island hosts one visiting artist through its Distinguished Visiting Artist Program. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the program is open to artists working in a variety of media including the visuals arts, performance, theatre, music, and film, along with curators, critics and art historians.

The goal of this program is to:

• support projects that will contribute to the aesthetic life of the University and broader community
• provide students and faculty with opportunities to participate in critical discourse with artists of national and international recognition, and develop meaningful and ongoing collaborations with them
• build the University’s reputation as a place where the arts are vibrant, diverse, and integral to intellectual and creative development of faculty and students

Past Artist Events

March 20, 2019
Data as Art, Laurie Frick

October 23, 2018
Erzuli Dahomey, Goddess of Love
Jean-René Lemoine

November 4, 2017
Rob Neill and the NY Neo-Futurists, The Infinite Wrench

February 25, 2017
Concert – Music of Japan

February 28, 2017
Public Lecture – Memories of the Sun Goddess “Himiko”

October 4, 2015
Mumbai Masala
Dhanashree Pandit-Rai