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 Council for the Arts is appointed by the Provost and chaired by the Vice Provost for the Arts.
Council for the Arts Membership for 2021-22
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 dukearts@duke.edu.
John V. Brown, Jr., J.D.
Vice Provost for the Arts
Director of the Jazz Program
Professor of the Practice of Music
Robert Mitchell, Ph.D.
English
Dr Jeremy Begbie, Ph.D.
Divinity
Bill Fick
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Joshua Gibson
Cinematic Arts
Ranjana Khanna, Ph.D.
Franklin Humanities Institute
Martin A. Brooke
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Darren Gobert
Theater Studies
Leslie Heusted
Student Affairs
Ali Shumar
Student Affairs
Neil Prose
Duke Global Health Institute
Angela Greenwald
University Development
Jenn Chambers
Alumni Association
Paul Jaskot
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Eric Ferreri
News & Communications
Dawna Jones
Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture
Luke A Powery
Divinity
Amanda Hughes
Divinity
Thomas Rankin
MFA|EDA
Sam Miglarese
Office of Duke and Community Affairs
Andrea Woods Valdés
Duke Dance Program
Trevor Schoonmaker
Nasher Museum of Art
William Johnson
Classical Studies
Dean of Humanities
Jonathan Bagg
Music
Colin Tierney
University Development
Courtney Liu
Dance
Jessica LaLonde
Engineering
Lee Sorensen
Libraries