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 2020-21
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.
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.
Duke English
Dr Jeremy Begbie, Ph.D.
Duke Divinity
Bill Fick
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Joshua Gibson
Arts of the Moving Image
Ranjana Khanna, Ph.D.
Franklin Humanities Institute
Martin A. Brooke
Duke Electrical and Computer Engineering
Torry Bend
Theater Studies
Amy Unell
Duke Arts
Duke Entertainment, Media & Arts Network
Christopher Roby
Student Affairs
Ali Shumar
Student Affairs
Neil Prose
Duke Global Health Institute
Angela Greenwald
University Development
Katy Clune
Duke Arts
Rubenstein Arts Center
Jenn Chambers
Duke Alumni Association
Sheila Dillon, Ph.D.
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Eric Ferreri
News & Communications
Bobby Asher
Duke Performances
Chandra Guinn
Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture
Wesley Hogan
Center for Documentary Studies
Luke A Powery
Duke Divinity
Amanda Hughes
Duke Divinity
Thomas Rankin
Duke MFA|EDA
Sam Miglarese
Office of Duke and Community Affairs
Purnima Shah, Ph.D.
Duke Program
Trevor Schoonmaker
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Gennifer Weisenfeld, Ph.D.
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Dean of Humanities
Neil McWilliam
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Acting Dean of Humanities
Jonathan Bagg
Duke Music
Colin Tierney
University Development
Courtney Liu
MFA in Dance
Jessica LaLonde
Engineering
Lee Sorensen
Duke Libraries