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How can we reimagine and repurpose what we already have? This is the question multidisciplinary artist and Duke Arts Create instructor Amelia Shull asks us in our new video and article series, The Art of Renewal, written and published by our Duke Arts Green Devil interns Jenna Arafeh and Yuchen Chen.
We recently interviewed Chania Wilson, one of our Duke Arts Create Instructors! In this Q&A, Chania shares her art practices, inspirations, and experiences with Duke Arts Create!
We interviewed Becca Ibarra, one of our Duke Arts Create Instructors! In this Q&A, Becca shares her art practices, inspirations, and experiences with Duke Arts Create!
We recently interviewed Robby Poore, one of our Duke Arts Create Instructors! In this Q&A, Robby shares his art practices, inspirations, and experiences with Duke Arts Create!
Maria Geary is a Durham, NC-based mixed media and fiber artist with a passion for visual journaling. She creates bold and expressive art and her work is influenced by her spirituality, journaling practice, and social issues.
We recently interviewed Hyewon Grigoni, one of our Duke Arts Create Instructors! In this Q&A, Hyewon shares her art practices, inspirations, and experiences with Duke Arts Create!
This summer, I wrote, directed, and produced my short film “Hard Break” – a dystopian sci-fi drama set in a world where heartbreak has become weaponized.
This past summer, I used Benenson Award funding to attend the Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS), where I studied violin in the Orchestra/Instrumental Program from June to August 2025.
I was one of six directors to study at the National Theater Institute in their summer Theatermakers intensive.
In her collaborative MFA thesis project, There is a ladder: Reckoning the Contemporary Black Woman Perspective in Post/Modern Dance, Chania worked out identity, vulnerability, anger, physical exertion, and play to embody what she refers to as liberatory archival practices that preserve, innovate, and integrate a Black choreographic voice into an offering that expands fixed notions of Black womanhood.
Indigo’s MFA thesis aimed to experiment with this compositional methodology in the context of their own art-making practice through the composition of an opera: “And you ghosts rise blue.”
Sadé M. Jones is a choreographer, a social psychologist, an alchemist, and in her own words “a healer”. She approaches her work with a rare and profoundly embodied wisdom—one that doesn’t simply interpret theory, but breathes it into being.
emily liptow’s MFA thesis, Thresholding, is an immersive performance and community practice featuring an intergenerational ensemble working with movement and song inspired by Threshold Singing.
Natalia’s MFA Thesis, titled “welding borderlands | soldando las tierras fronterizas,” invites us to witness how our body can be a potent site where individual, familial, and communal experiences and memories can be evoked, accessed, and materialized.
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