Visual Art at Brown University

A suggested order for the 39 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate VISA coursework.

• VISA 1310Painting Iopens 1 course (1 directly)
• VISA 1250Art of the Bookopens 1 course (0.5 directly)
• VISA 1510Black and White Photographyopens 1 course (0.5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate VISA work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 39 VISA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 22 more VISA courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in VISA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at VISA 1530

  1. VISA 0100Studio Foundation
  2. VISA 1250Art of the Book
  3. VISA 1530Digital Photo Bookbinding

• 3 courses deep, ending at VISA 1800A

  1. VISA 0100Studio Foundation
  2. VISA 1310Painting I
  3. VISA 1800AAccessorizing Painting: The Exalted Surface

• 2 courses deep, ending at VISA 1720

  1. VISA 0120Foundation Media: Sound and Image
  2. VISA 1720Physical Computing

Grade medians

Teaching in Spring 2027

Instructors on VISA sections in Spring 2027, from the registrar's schedule.

• Becci Davis
• Daniel Stupar
• Ed Osborn
• Georgia Rhodes
• Heather Bhandari
• Helina Metaferia
• J. Cohen
• Jeane Cohen
• Joanna Booth
• Katie Commodore
• Leah Beeferman
• Leigh Tarentino
• Nicholas Carter
• Paul Myoda
• RaMell Ross
• Sara Inacio
• Theresa Ganz
• Winnie Gier

Brown professor board

Clubs & organizations

Groups the university lists under this department.

• fashion@brown
• Providence Original Photography, Brown
• Visual Art Appreciation

All Brown organizations

Clubs students here join

Department events

Visual Art does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Brown campus feed.