The arts thrive at Duke. Academic programs, critically acclaimed organizations and visiting artists create connections between campus, the Durham community, and international thinkers, makers, and performers.
The Vice Provost for the Arts is charged with transforming the arts at Duke. This office works with academic, student and community arts programs to embed art into the mainstream Duke experience.
learn moreArtists within and around the Duke University community remind us of the full spectrum of our creative power and our resilience as we navigate this new environment. We invite you to explore or contribute to the “Arts & Artists Are Essential” collection of voices, opportunities, and offerings, or you can subscribe to receive weekly updates.
Duke dance professor Sarah Wilbur resists easy optimism as she and her students ponder an evolving “COVIDaesthetic” that craves lost proximity, activates technology and virtual sites of performance, and aligns art with public health.
For graduate composition student James Budinich, a recent long-distance collaboration with dancer Gabrielle Lamb has useful lessons for our post-COVID reality.
Nasher Museum-affiliated artist Dario Robleto reflects on his early years as an artist, when social distancing came naturally to him and he nurtured a “precarious balance… between introversion and community.”
While flattening the curve, Durham-based singer and guitarist Jake Xerxes Fussell is leaning into his naturally sporadic creative process and finding joy in deep listening and tiny birds.
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