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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 moreIn thanks for your support of the arts at Duke, we share last year's stories and milestones. "During the pandemic, the world—like Duke—has changed. Yet our arts community has never been more resilient—nor more vital."—Vincent E. Price, President, Duke University
Before the pandemic shut everything down, visiting artist John Felix Arnold III was working with students to create a conceptual portrait of Durham—his hometown—in the Ruby.
Duke Professor Rebecca Stein and 15 students in her Human Rights on Camera class visited the Nasher Museum to experience the outdoor art installation "RESIST COVID / TAKE 6!" by artist Carrie Mae Weems.
The leaders of Duke's student-run record label, Small Town Records, learned how to innovate, adapt to digital platforms, and create new music opportunities during a pandemic summer.
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.”
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