Header Photo: The Revival Community Sing; Photo by Rob Underhill “I can’t be free until you are free, and you can’t be free until I am free, and that’s why ...

Music, and especially the spirituals, is an important part of Duke Chapel Dean Luke Powery’s preaching, scholarship, and Christian faith.

As John V. Brown prepares to close his chapter as Vice Provost for the Arts at Duke on June 30, colleagues, students, and community partners alike are reflecting with gratitude on his visionary leadership—and the joy, passion, and generosity he brought to every part of his work.

This Spring semester, Duke English Professors JP Gritton and Mesha Maren, in conjunction with Duke Arts and the Writers Collective, hosted a series of writer's workshops featuring local writers who provided insight on how to work through elements of one's writing.

When British actor, director, and playwright Tim Crouch arrived at Duke, he wasn’t just an exciting visitor—he was at the top of a wish list from theater studies faculty. As ...

Through November 7, Duke Chapel is hosting a large ofrenda commissioned by Duke Arts, featuring calaveras (painted skulls) by artists with the Inter-Latin American Artist Collective.

Trinity and Pratt students use Creative Arts Grants to fund creative projects that supplement independent study or regular coursework. To celebrate the opening of the 2024-2025 Creative Arts Grants, our new Duke Arts Fellow, Maya Ghanem, spoke with two of last year’s grantees: Ruby Wang (T’ 24), who created a multimedia collage, and Cate Knothe (T’ 24), who wrote, shot, and edited a short film.

When Theatre Raleigh’s Bull Durham: A New Musical opened in Reynolds Industries Theatre this Friday, with its elaborate set and starry cast, it reminded long-time local theater fans of a ...

In October 2023, Duke Arts wrapped-up “Building Bridges: Muslims in America” with a weekend commemorating the life and legacy of the late Yusuf Salim. The five-year initiative was developed with support from the Doris Duke Foundation and aimed to combat Islamophobia and showcase the diversity within the Muslim community and included residencies of Muslim artists in Durham Public schools, performances, and community events at Duke and in Durham.

The Duke Arts team is excited to share holiday cheer through the magic of music. From lively jazz-infused rhythms, celtic charm, and timeless tunes, we've shared our favorite holiday albums to capture the warmth of the festive season.

Tom Rankin, Director of Duke's MFA program in Experimental and Documentary Arts, remembers Full Frame Documentary Film Festival founder and filmmaker Nancy Buirski.

Eco-artist, disability culture activist, Duke 2022-2023 artist-in-residence Marina Tsaplina developed Soil and Spirit, a project including a variety of community events, lab visits, movement workshops, and engineering and puppetry classes gathering people with diverse lineages to transform the disconnected relationship with the living world.

Seven advanced chamber music students were selected to visit the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in a pilot run of the new Duke Arts Exchange Program.

How a day spent monitoring polling stations in Fayetteville, NC, in 2016 became a documentary essay on the precarious state of the cornerstone democratic principle of “one person, one vote.”