Designing with the Climate in Mind
From Duke Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Stories about the arts across Duke, including news announcements, profiles on students, faculty, and visiting artists, special features, and more!
In the summer of 2025, Antonio Marrujo ’27 immersed himself in New York City’s dance scene with funding support from the Benenson Award. Receiving training from numerous studios and learning from a host of choreographers and mentors, he expanded his technique across genres and gained a deeper understanding of the professional dance world.
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When Durham-based artist and Duke Arts Create Instructor Becca Ibarra makes paper, she begins with what most people disregard. Paper is usually thought of as a fresh start: a blank page of endless possibilities. But, in Becca Ibarra’s practice, paper marks a comeback of sorts.
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!
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.
How someone does one thing is how they do everything. Or so I believe, when I spend time with Ms. Jereann.
This past summer, I had the opportunity to combine language learning with music during my Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) program in Morocco.
This past summer, I had the incredible opportunity to attend LAMDA’s (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) 4-week Shakespeare Summer School, supported by the Benenson Award of the Arts.
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.
I received funding to create Echoes of Atlantis: A Myth Reimagined in Santorini, a short experimental documentary exploring how the myth of Atlantis continues to shape cultural memory, identity, and our anxieties about collapse in the modern world.
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