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.