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Graduating Program II major, with a self-designed course of study spanning Neuroscience, Dance, and Nutrition, Michela Arietti has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize.
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For Alex Glenn, what begins as creative curiosity in thrift stores expands into a practice rooted in transformation, sustainability, and self-expression, where each stitch extends the life and identity of a garment. This article is a continuation of our Art of Renewal series that spotlights how Duke Arts Create educators 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.
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.
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