Stories about the arts across Duke, including news announcements, profiles on students, faculty, and visiting artists, special features, and more!

Applications are now open for Arts+, a summer experiential learning initiative offered by Duke Arts. This multifaceted program offers opportunities for Duke undergraduate students to gain practical experience in the professional arts world.
Stay connected with the arts across Duke’s campus, and don’t miss your next great arts experience!
How can we reimagine and repurpose what we already have? This is the question multidisciplinary artist and Duke Arts Create instructor Amelia Shull asks us in our new video and article series, The Art of Renewal, written and published by our Duke Arts Green Devil interns Jenna Arafeh and Yuchen Chen.
We recently interviewed Chania Wilson, one of our Duke Arts Create Instructors! In this Q&A, Chania shares her art practices, inspirations, and experiences with Duke Arts Create!
We interviewed Becca Ibarra, one of our Duke Arts Create Instructors! In this Q&A, Becca shares her art practices, inspirations, and experiences with Duke Arts Create!
We recently interviewed Robby Poore, one of our Duke Arts Create Instructors! In this Q&A, Robby shares his art practices, inspirations, and experiences with Duke Arts Create!
Maria Geary is a Durham, NC-based mixed media and fiber artist with a passion for visual journaling. She creates bold and expressive art and her work is influenced by her spirituality, journaling practice, and social issues.
We recently interviewed Hyewon Grigoni, one of our Duke Arts Create Instructors! In this Q&A, Hyewon shares her art practices, inspirations, and experiences with Duke Arts Create!
From the Benenson Award, I received funding to write a 50-page work of historical fiction and collection of poems centering displacement, silence/volume, and disappearance in postwar Hong Kong.
This summer I had the privilege of receiving the Benenson Award in the Arts, which allowed me to immerse myself in the New York City dance community for three months.
How someone does one thing is how they do everything. Or so I believe, when I spend time with Ms. Jereann.
This past summer, I had the opportunity to combine language learning with music during my Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) program in Morocco.
This past summer, I had the incredible opportunity to attend LAMDA’s (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) 4-week Shakespeare Summer School, supported by the Benenson Award of the Arts.
I attended Prague Shakespeare Company’s 6-week Summer Shakespeare Intensive, an annual event that gathers dozens of students and faculty from across the globe in historic Prague.
For my Benenson project, I set out to explore the comic-making process and to push myself toward longer-form, story-based illustration.
I received funding to create Echoes of Atlantis: A Myth Reimagined in Santorini, a short experimental documentary exploring how the myth of Atlantis continues to shape cultural memory, identity, and our anxieties about collapse in the modern world.
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