Sculpture

Sculpey

Sculpey
Taught by Sean Graham

September 3, 2025

If you are new to polymer clay, you came to the right place! Clay allows us to express our imaginations through our hands — and the medium that allows the most possibilities is polymer-baked clay.

nora chipaumire: Dambudzo

nora chipaumire: Dambudzo

October 2, 2025 - October 4, 2025

Dambudzo is a live anti-genre work by acclaimed choreographer nora chipaumire, combining sound, painting, sculpture and performance to confront colonial legacies.

Sculpey

Sculpey
Taught by Sean Graham

April 21, 2025

If you are new to polymer clay, you came to the right place! Clay allows us to express our imaginations through our hands — and the medium that allows the most possibilities is polymer-baked clay.

A Fall From Grace

A Fall From Grace is a multimedia project by Zaire McPhearson, MFA EDA '20, that tells the story of single Black women and their children involved in a cult from the mid-1970s through the early 2000s.

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The Rubix

The Rubix is a temporary experimental structure created for visual and installation art research. Faculty in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies are exploring the question: What is public art and how is it made? Future projects in and on this structure will attempt to answer this question.

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Layers of Dreamscapes

Layers of Dreamscapes reimagines how we can be immersed in a piece of art by adding a new physical dimension to one of the most popular and oldest subjects of paintings: the landscape.

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Social Practice Lab

The Franklin Humanities Institute's Social Practice Lab is supporting Create, Innovate, Act!, a Spring 2018 course taught in the Ruby by Pedro Lasch.

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Cornered

"Cornered" is an art installation using video projections to express the hopes and hardships of African migrants.

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Biscuit Station

Bill Thelen's installation for the Ruby's grand opening will expand—quite literally!—on his memento of the Biscuit King, an old Durham landmark.

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