Joan Brigham (born January 31, 1935) is an American artist, art historian and former fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Since 1971, she has been on the teaching faculty at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts as a professor of Visual and Media Arts.
[4] From 1975 to 1995, she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Centerbeam was the result of an equal collaboration between CAVS Fellows from the fields of art, engineering, and science.
"[9] In 1978, a second version of Centerbeam was displayed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.[10] In 1984, Joan Brigham installed the Tanner Fountain on the campus of Harvard University in collaboration with Peter Walker and the SWA Group.