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Stories on the arts across Duke, including news announcements, profiles on student and faculty artists, special features, and guest entries by Duke students.

Deborah Rutter Named Vice Provost for the Arts

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.

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Chania Wilson, MFA in Dance ’25: There is a ladder

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.

Michelle Ling ’25: Maunakea and TMT

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).