Council for the Arts
The Council’s charge is to:
- advise the Provost on policy and resource issues in the arts;
- to promote collaborative activity and programming among professional, academic, and student arts organizations at Duke and in the Durham community;
- to provide a forum for the exchange of information between arts organizations at Duke, to promote interdisciplinary projects in the arts, to select the recipient of the Sudler Award in the Arts, and to report annually to the Provost on the state of the arts at Duke and progress toward goals and objectives. The committee typically meets once a semester;
- and to administer the Collaboration Development Grant program.
Collaboration Development Grants are offered to faculty members who wish to collaborate on new artistic work with artists or faculty members in their own or different disciplines. Grant applications are evaluated once each semester by a subcommittee of the Council for the Arts, who propose the results to the full Council. Grants are awarded by the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts upon the Council’s recommendation.
Council for the Arts Membership for 2017-18
For more information on the Council for the Arts, contact the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts at (919) 684-0540 or email danette.clark@duke.edu.
Sarah Beckwith
Chair, Department of English
Jeremy Begbie (Spring Semester)
Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology, Divinity School
Jennifer Chambers ‘01
Director, Alumni Education, Duke Alumni Association
Sheila Dillon
Chair, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Eric Ferreri
Senior Writer, Office of News & Communications
Lydia Greene
Graduate and Professional Student Council representative
Aaron Greenwald
Executive Director, Duke Performances
Angela Greenwald
Director, Interdisciplinary Initiatives, Duke University Development Office
Chandra Guinn
Director, Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture
Wesley Hogan
Director, Center for Documentary Studies
Guo-Juin Hong
Arts of the Moving Image
Deborah Jenson
Director, Franklin Humanities Institute
Scott Lindroth
Vice Provost for the Arts & Professor of Music
Lisa McCarty
Curator, Archive of Documentary Arts, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Kelsey Graywill
duARTS President
Luke Powery
Dean of Duke Chapel & Associate Professor of the Practice of Homiletics, Duke Divinity School
Nimmi Ramanujam
Robert W. Carr, Jr., Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Thomas Rankin
Director, Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documetary Arts
Christopher Roby
Assistant Vice President, Student Affairs & Director, University Center Activities & Events
Lou Rollins
Executive Assistant, Office of Durham and Regional Affairs
Philip Rupprecht
Chair, Department of Music
Sarah Schroth
Director, Nasher Museum of Art
Purnima Shah
Director, Dance Program
Jeff Storer
Chair, Department of Theater Studies
Sharon Swanson
Program Coordinator, Health Arts Network at Duke
Gennifer Weisenfeld
Dean of the Humanities
