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Three historic copies of the Declaration of Independence will anchor a year of exhibitions, performances, and public programs exploring democracy, identity, and belonging through We the People: A Duke & Durham Initiative. Together, these programs create space to reflect on the nation’s evolving identity through art, scholarship, and civic dialogue. How can the arts help people engage thoughtfully with the complexities of the past and present?
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Our Art of Renewal article and video series spotlights how Duke Arts Create instructors incorporate sustainability into their creative practice and offers ideas for incorporating reuse and other sustainable approaches into everyday art-making.
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!
Tristian Griffin’s The Black Palimpsest is a choreographic and sonic offering that moves through Durham’s sacred landscapes, centering the Stagville Historic Site, once among the South’s largest plantations.
Johanna Kepler’s weaving Dreams is an interdisciplinary performance that blends dance, spoken word, visual art, sound, and projection to explore how memory, identity, and ancestral connection surface through embodied and intuitive practices.
Asili Johnson’s Stand N Your Purpose explores how artists discover, claim, and embody the value of their work across individual, communal, and ancestral dimensions.
I was one of six directors to study at the National Theater Institute in their summer Theatermakers intensive.
I attended Prague Shakespeare Company’s 6-week Summer Shakespeare Intensive, an annual event that gathers dozens of students and faculty from across the globe in historic Prague.
For my Benenson project, I set out to explore the comic-making process and to push myself toward longer-form, story-based illustration.
From the Benenson Award, I received funding to write a 50-page work of historical fiction and collection of poems centering displacement, silence/volume, and disappearance in postwar Hong Kong.
This summer I had the privilege of receiving the Benenson Award in the Arts, which allowed me to immerse myself in the New York City dance community for three months.
Congratulations to Duke alumni Ryan White (Trinity ’07) and Teddy Schwarzman (Duke Law ’06) on their Oscar nominations! Congratulations to two Duke alumni who have earned Oscar nominations for 2026: …
We recently caught up with Duke alum Charlie McSpadden T’10, producer of the 2024 romantic comedy A Nice Indian Boy. The film, produced with Levantine Films and starring Karan Soni …
When the Tony Awards ceremony highlighted the year’s best work in the theater on Sunday, a Duke alumna walked away with one of the most prestigious awards.
Niu is a film and music video director based in Los Angeles. Her work addresses motifs of freedom, mythology and the Asian diaspora in the United States. She worked as an assistant editor and post-production coordinator on A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once. Duke Arts and Forever Duke recently caught up with Niu to learn about her work. Read our Q&A below!
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