Nathan Borradaile Wright’s thesis Miscellaneous Earth is a multichannel video installation exploring our spatial and technological dissociation from the landscape of collective memory.
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Using augmented and virtual reality, animation, and mining archival footage from Black media, Ivy Nicole-Jonét's thesis Ode (Owed) to Black Womxn creates an Afrofuturistic world centered on an immersive, documentary experience that celebrates Black womxn.
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Morgan Biele '23 shares a piece she wrote for Duke Medical Ethics Journal, an undergraduate-led publication that features students' voices in blogs and articles that center ethics in dialogue with medicine. “I’m extremely passionate about how art depicts health and well-being, and in turn how health and well-being inform art,” Biele shares.
This year, in collaboration with the Office for the Vice Provost of the Arts, Bass Connections is seeking projects that display the range of ways in which different forms of art intersect with how we understand, convey, and engage with complex societal challenges.
Three Duke alumnae share how they split their time at Duke between rigorous science courses and a steadfast passion for dance. “When I got to college, it wasn’t really a question of whether or not I would continue to dance as I pursued a career in medicine,” Gabby Cooper '20 said. “It was how I could make both of them work.”
A Bass Connections team has created an art installation on view in the lobby of the Rubenstein Arts Center. “This project is emblematic of the integrative and synthetic thinking that society needs to tackle the wicked challenges of climate change and sea level,” says Betsy Albright, assistant professor at the Nicholas School.
Sujal Manohar is a senior neuroscience and visual arts double major whose senior Graduate with Distinction project in Visual Arts, Reflect: Mental Health Experiences at Duke, focuses on mental health experiences at Duke. She shares this work with us as part of our "Art and Artists are Essential" collection and invitation.
Christian Boada is a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University, and "the vizual scientist" on Instagram shares artwork as part of our "Art and Artists are Essential" collection and invitation.
A sculpture made by Susan Hynes '19 inspired by an Entomology course travels from the Rubenstein Arts Center to Durham's Museum of Life + Science.
A new exhibition blending art and science opens at Duke Libraries later this week and features the work of Dave and Jane Richardson.
Pratt's New Building Art Committee is now in a phase of actively seeking to identify and purchase or commission works for the new building. Artists who might be a fit are invited to submit a brief survey by Dec 6, 2019.
The inaugural Duke STEAM Forum was designed to give visibility and voice to those who are passionate about STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics) at Duke.
In this interview with artist Cameron Oglesby (T ‘21), we learn how this environmental science major from Midlothian, Virginia, uses art to communicate her passion about environmental awareness and action. “I think that art has real potential to connect people,” says Cameron.
In graphic medicine, comics act as a creative space to explore what are often deeply felt and complicated dynamics between patients, providers, disease and health systems.
Two engineering students and the manager of the Duke Costume Shop share their unique collaboration to build a prosthetic device.
As a young man, Sönke Johnsen was an avid photographer who drew and painted, danced like crazy, and did some writing and set design on the side. Then he found that his true artistic calling—biology.
Development of a tactile and responsive instrument for live performance by graduate students in Duke's Computational Media, Arts, and Culture program.
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Organized by Duke graduate students in the life sciences, “The Art of a Scientist” will be on view in the Rubenstein Arts Center's gallery between June 1 and August 10, 2018.