
Stories on the arts across Duke, including news announcements, profiles on student and faculty artists, special features, and guest entries by Duke students.
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Deborah F. Rutter, the former president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., has been appointed vice provost for the arts at Duke, announced Provost Alec D. Gallimore.
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!
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.
I took part in Puppet in Prague’s Marionette Carving + Performance workshop, an intense 22-day program that ran from August 8 to August 30 in the Czech Republic.
I received funding towards my honors thesis project, titled Maunakea and TMT: The Meeting Point of Scientific Exploration, Tourism, & U.S. Imperialism, that I am completing as part of my Program II (Environmental Humanities & Multimedia).
I received the Benenson Award to support Survivors Anchoring Art Narrative Garden (SAANG春风吹), a healing justice project for survivors of gender based violence and cyberbullying.