About Us

A forum for experimental collaboration between artists and scholars

The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry is dedicated to removing barriers that separate intellectual and artistic exploration. Through support, programming, publications, and other outlets, we provide a space for reimagining the relationship between these two modes of creativity, investigation, and expression.

NEWS and UPCOMING

Out Now! Portable Gray 16: costumes and Collapse

Guest edited by Leah Feldman, our spring 2026 edition explores the continued life of the wearable art, as at once a record of the past—imprinted by the presence of the body—as it fashions forms of survival in its stitches, patterns, and silhouettes, generating armor to shelter fabulous possibilities for future-becoming. Featuring contributions by: Alia Ali, Uta Bekaia, Rikki Byrd, Nick Cave, Stephnie Cristello, Rachel Dedman, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Hoda El Shakry, Leah Feldman, Jonathan Flatley, Theaster Gates, Omar Kholeif, Dato Koridze, Catriona MacLeod, Matt Morris, Tim Nicholson, Duane Powell, Dieter Roelstraete, Slavs and Tatars, and Kris Trujillo. The issue also features our latest reviews in PGR by: Isaac Bjorke, Annette LePique, Nicky Ni, Pia Singh, Regina Victor, Erik Wenzel, and Ellen Wiese.

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Events

From our ongoing programs to special happenings, the Gray Center offers a panoply of virtual and in-person discussions, performances, screenings, get-togethers, and more throughout the year.

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Fellowships

Designed to foster intensive and experimental collaborations between artists and scholars, fellowships at the Gray Center are open to individuals at any stage of professional development in their fields, from emerging leaders to recognized figures.

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Portable Gray

An interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the weirdness found at the intersection of the arts and scholarship, Portable Gray features essays, interviews, poetry, musical compositions, and non-traditional academic research.

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Programs

Sidebar

The Gray Center welcomes the public for an ongoing conversation series with invited artists and scholars featuring food, drink, and meaningful engagement in a workshop setting.

Gray Sound

Artists and the community engage in performance and discussion to explore the boundaries of sound.