
Felony & Fiction
Learn how to fictionalize true crime. Choose from selection of cases in the handout (or bring your own) and begin to craft your original, fictional piece.
Duke Arts Create is a series of free hands-on arts workshops designed to help all Duke students including undergraduates, graduates, and professionals (including health professionals), faculty, and staff develop a variety of creative skills in the visual arts, dance and movement, creative writing and more. While most of our workshops are exclusive to the Duke community, each month includes a few open community workshops that are free and open to the general public – no Duke affiliation required!
Explore our workshops below.
Most workshops are held in the Duke Arts Annex, the Rubenstein Arts Center or the Trent Semans Center and are typically held weeknights from 6-8 p.m.
Registration for workshops opens every Friday morning at 9 a.m. for the following week’s events. Sign up in advance to guarantee your spot. If you miss your chance to reserve, stop by – we always reserve space for walk-ins and waitlist registers and will do our best to accommodate you.
Questions? Email DukeCreate@duke.edu.
Learn how to fictionalize true crime. Choose from selection of cases in the handout (or bring your own) and begin to craft your original, fictional piece.
Explore the craft of decorating fabric using a needle and thread. Practice creating imagery using colorful thread- students will learn tips and techniques to achieve traditional embroidery styles.
Join The Gender Gallery for a night of centering love and care for each other by writing love letters to gender expansiveness, the transgender community, to a specific person or yourself.
In this workshop, you will learn the basics of bookbinding to create your own journal to take home.
Visible mending is an ornamental approach to repairing an item. Rather than trying to mask the area where the item was damaged, the goal is to highlight these imperfections in a creative, eye-catching way.
Whether you’re new to a practice of quietude or a long-time practitioner, this workshop will allow us to access simple, effective techniques that expose the truth of our experiences. Here we will sit and chat and practice the ancient ways of settling our minds in their natural state of gentle, peaceful luminosity.
This two-hour workshop will cover the basics of screen printing: putting images on screens (making a stencil), ink mixing, and how to effectively use a squeegee.
Make a tiny critter, cat toy, or portrait using colored wool and specialized needles.
Turn an object sourced from the Scrap Exchange into a puppet.
Take a much needed break for some deep relaxation. Open to all levels, this 90-minute Restorative Yoga workshop is about deep rest through supported poses, guided breathwork, and stillness.
Learn to make paper from recycled materials like junk mail! In this zero-waste workshop, we’ll use a blended pulp to create sheets of paper using the dip method with a mold and deckle.
Modern fusion for beg/intermediate movers – modern with africanist elements intertwined: polyrhythm, polycentrism, and overall african/jazz influence.
In this workshop, participants will explore the beauty of the plants, bugs, and surroundings of the Duke Campus Farm, and learn to document their observations in words and sketches.
Visible mending is an ornamental approach to repairing an item. Rather than trying to mask the area where the item was damaged, the goal is to highlight these imperfections in a creative, eye-catching way.
Make a tiny critter, cat toy, or portrait using colored wool and specialized needles.
Learn how to fictionalize true crime. Choose from selection of cases in the handout (or bring your own) and begin to craft your original, fictional piece.
Join The Gender Gallery for a night of centering love and care for each other by writing love letters to gender expansiveness, the transgender community, to a specific person or yourself.
Whether you’re new to a practice of quietude or a long-time practitioner, this workshop will allow us to access simple, effective techniques that expose the truth of our experiences. Here we will sit and chat and practice the ancient ways of settling our minds in their natural state of gentle, peaceful luminosity.
Turn an object sourced from the Scrap Exchange into a puppet.
Take a much needed break for some deep relaxation. Open to all levels, this 90-minute Restorative Yoga workshop is about deep rest through supported poses, guided breathwork, and stillness.
Learn to make paper from recycled materials like junk mail! In this zero-waste workshop, we’ll use a blended pulp to create sheets of paper using the dip method with a mold and deckle.
Modern fusion for beg/intermediate movers – modern with africanist elements intertwined: polyrhythm, polycentrism, and overall african/jazz influence.
In this workshop, participants will explore the beauty of the plants, bugs, and surroundings of the Duke Campus Farm, and learn to document their observations in words and sketches.
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