Jeffrey Broms (‘27) is originally from the Chicago area and studies physics and music at Duke University. With a background in classical performance, Jeffrey plays principal double bass in the ...

Kristin Clotfelter co-directs Studio C Projects (SCP), a collective investigating intersections of movement, design and performance; is Associate Artistic Director of Barriskill Dance Theater School, and teaches dance at Duke ...

Nicole Thomas, professionally known as “Pinky”, is a distinguished multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, educator, ethnographer, and cultural ambassador, with foundational roots in St. Louis, MO. She began her formal dance training ...

Deborah F. Rutter is an internationally respected arts executive with over nearly five decades of leadership at premier cultural institutions. From 2014 to 2025, she served as the first female ...

Pamela Mischen is professor of environmental studies and Chief Sustainability Officer at Binghamton University. She has a BS in international agriculture and rural development from Cornell University, and an MS ...

Meg Stein, MFA (she/they) is an interdisciplinary visual artist, primarily working in sculpture and social practice. She has exhibited her work nationally at VICTORI + MO, Garis & Hahn, the Nasher ...

Stacey L. Kirby is a Durham–based interdisciplinary artist known for her socially engaged performance installations that explore themes of identity, community, and civil rights. With a background in printmaking and ...

Kenrick Ashland Jobe was born in summit, New Jersey. Kenrick was raised by Martin and Diana Jobe in South Orange New Jersey, both of which are Guyanese immigrants. Kenrick moved ...

As an environmental field scientist and artist, Rebecca Cox explores the environmental implications of the artmaking process. How do materials and methods become a part of a piece’s meaning? How ...

Being born and raised in North Carolina, I’ve always felt attached to the flora and fauna that flourish in this state! It wasn’t until I started teaching myself the names ...

Sarah Ann Austin, b.Flint, MI. BFA University of Michigan and MFA University of Alabama. Sarah has taught at various universities and colleges before leaving academia and now working in her ...

emily liptow (she/they) is multi-disciplinary artist, creative producer, facilitator, and community organizer from the watershed of Lake Erie. Working with movement, voice, and textiles, they create experiences – in the ...

M. Randal O’Wain is an essayist and fiction writer from Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of Meander Belt: family, loss, and coming of age in the working-class south (Nebraska, ...

Stormie Daie is a black non-binary femme southerner from Durham, NC. Daie has worked a decade in drag as an entertainer, emcee and show producer. Daie strives to provide joy ...

Johann Montozzi-Wood (facilitator) is an assistant professor of the practice of theater studies at Duke University. He holds a Master in Arts in Theatre Studies from the University of Central ...

Dale Wolf is a mime, an impressionistic doodler, a gardener, birdwatcher, Tranz Masculine human and care taker of a small parcel of the planet in Durham, NC. There, I grow ...

Kamara Thomas is a songspeller, multidisciplinary storyteller and ritualist based in Durham, NC. She uses her musical “storyworks” as containers for community-based artmaking in pursuit of surprising and disruptive storytelling forms and ...

Grace Nichols (they/them) is a prismatic performance artist and writer. They can be seen at various venues around The Triangle performing standup, sketch, and drag. In 2022 they were selected as ...

Monet Noelle Marshall (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, director, and cultural strategist whose work spans performance, film, audio, and social practice. She uses arts and culture interventions to create ...

Jesse Huddleston (he/she/they/we) comes from a family of artists, educators, and public servants, all from North Carolina, where he has lived since 2006. As a Black genderqueer artist and practitioner ...

Naomi Dix is one of the Triangle’s most dynamic, versatile, boundary pushing Drag artist. She was born into the Drag world March of 2014, making her debut as a House ...

Originally from Venice, California, Cris loves the beach, art, and the unusual. They attended UC Santa Cruz, living in the beautiful Redwood forest and its spirit of place. Now in ...

Born in Durham NC, the apex of the center of the universe (and the American South) JoRose is a shiny, diasporic, queer professional actor whose passion for storytelling transcends conventional ...

Dorothy James is a Brooklyn based puppeteer, educator, and maker of tiny things. She has puppeteered for Basil Twist, Wakka Wakka, Nick Lehane, Radio City, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, BBC, Amazon, ...

Andy Manjuck is… an artist living in Brooklyn, NY a co-creator of puppet shows a company member of the award-winning Wakka Wakka Productions a collaborator on work from artists like ...

The Gender Gallery is an interdisciplinary documentary theatre project that explores the expansiveness of gender through creativity, community, and performance. We facilitate creative community workshops, devised performances, and pop-up gallery experiences ...

Born and raised in the town of Coronel Fabriciano in southeastern Brazil, Tigresa developed an interest in Capoeira at a young age and began studying in 1986. She obtained her Professora ...

Cynthia Weiner has had a long career writing and teaching fiction. Her short stories have been published in Ploughshares, The Sun, and Epiphany, and her story “Boyfriends” was awarded a ...

Aaron Kutnick is a new media artist, filmmaker, and educator based in Durham, NC. His interactive work is a practice in digital taxidermy, breathing a sense of urgency and presence ...

Aya Shabu is a courageous storyteller and collaborator who uses site-specific performance, art, and ritual to remember African American ancestors and preserve neighborhoods. The Creator and Conductor of Whistle Stop ...

Lauren Neefe is an MFA student in Experimental and Documentary Arts. She practices at the intersection of poetry, sound, place, and the built environment, often in collaboration with performance artists, ...

Jocelyn Castro is an administrative professional with experience in higher education and law. She currently serves as Administrative Assistant to Deborah F. Rutter, Vice Provost for the Arts. Prior to ...

Ashon Crawley is Professor of Religious Studies and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He is author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University ...

Julia Gartrell is a sculptor and public artist whose work explores material culture, unusual approaches to traditional craft techniques, and Southern storytelling. She runs the Radical Repair Workshop, a traveling ...

Robby Poore is a graphic designer, musician, DJ, and screen printer based in Chapel Hill, NC. He has a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico in ...

Johanna Kepler is a choreographer, creative director, and interdisciplinary researcher whose work explores the intersections of movement, cultural memory, and sustainability in the arts. She is currently pursuing an MFA ...

I am originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, and hold a Masters of Professional Studies in Digital Photography from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. For over a ...

Laura Walkingstick (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) is a multidisciplinary artist and art therapist based in the Appalachian Mountains. Her narrative-driven work explores themes of healing, memory, and intergenerational trauma, ...

My life so far has been guided by a never-ending web of dichotomies: Born by the ocean and raised in the mountains, brought up by a computer technician and an ...

Robert Wallace has received a Writers’ Fellowship from the NC Arts Council. He has published over fifty short stories in various journals, including the Bryant Literary Review, the NC Literary ...

Freya Powell creates ensemble performances, immersive sound installations, and essay videos. Drawing on fields such as forensic anthropology, feminist and affect theory, and literature her projects make connections between the ...

Mira Shani started her studies of Yoga during her college days in the mid ’90s at UT Austin. It was there, in a Critical Thinking class that she was introduced ...

Alex is an avid birder and amateur naturalist with a background in language and culture. After graduating from Duke with an MA in East Asian Studies, Alex spent four fruitful ...

Nicole Oxendine is the founder and artistic director of Empower Dance Studio, established in 2015. With a lifelong passion for dance, Nicole envisioned a space where individuals could explore their ...

Ayodele Casel, a Doris Duke Artist in the dance category, is an award-winning and critically acclaimed tap dancer and choreographer. Born in The Bronx and raised in Puerto Rico, her ...

Raquel Salvatella de Prada is an artist and associate professor of the practice of visual arts at Duke University. She integrates experimental video and animation with different traditional art forms, ...

Lormarev Jones is a Director/Choreographer, Intimacy Director and Educator currently based in Raleigh. She received her MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College. Lormarev has served as a director and ...

Andrea E. Woods Valdés is the Chair of the Duke University Dance Program and artistic director of Souloworks/Andrea E. Woods & Dancers. A native of Philadelphia, Woods is a former ...

Adrienne Oates is a local Durham artist. She got her BFA in ceramics from Radford University. There she took a watercolor and has continued to paint and do ceramics. Many ...

Sydney Sogol is a weaver and dyer, whose mission is to create bold color and pattern interactions through original designs. She creates one-of-a-kind and limited edition pieces inspired by her ...

Dr. Allan Friedman is proud to direct both the Duke Chorale and SONAM (Singers of New and Ancient Music). He also teaches a variety of courses in the Music Department. ...

DJ is a neon artist, educator, and the owner of Hex Neon in Durham, North Carolina. She is a founding member of the Neon Makers Guild, a community dedicated to ...

Alyah Baker is a dance artist, scholar, and choreographer working at the intersection of art and embodied activism. For the past 19 years, she has worked as a freelance artist ...

Michael Klien:  As a leading voice in contemporary choreography, Michael Kliën has pioneered a 21st-century ecological approach to reimagining how humans move and exist within society ethically and sustainably. His ...

Torry Bend is a puppet artist and scenic designer, her Scenic design has been seen in New York at La Mama, Incubator Arts Project and Dixon Place. Additional design work ...

Mesha Maren is the author of the novels Sugar Run, Perpetual West, and Shae (May 2024, Algonquin Books). Her short stories and essays can be read in Tin House, The ...

JP Gritton’s novel Wyoming, a Kirkus best debut of 2019, is out with Tin House. His awards include a Cynthia Woods Mitchell fellowship, the Meringoff prize in fiction, and the ...

Gowri Savoor is a visual-teaching artist, whose practice includes sculpture, drawing and writing. Savoor is the founder of A River of Light, an organization committed to bringing art to the ...

My name is JAC M., former cotton candy girly! I identify as a queer, disabled Muslim girly who focuses on limitless Love and radical joy for the people!

Jarret has been practicing and teaching some of the many different methods of exploring quietude for over 25 years. He has studied at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro ...

In addition to her scientific pursuits, she is also an accomplished Mandala artist and an avid Calligrapher. She loves experimenting with different art mediums and techniques to create unique amalgamations.

As an art history major, Holly has always found joy in all aspects of art, not just looking at it or analyzing it, but making it as well. She has ...

Leticia Alvarez is a Mexican artist; she studied Art at the University of Monterrey (UDEM), and participated on numerous exhibitions. Leticia got a Master degree in Education through Art, from ...

Peter Marín was born and raised in Mexico City. He has lived in San Francisco, Oakland, Madrid, New York City, and Raleigh, NC. Marin has been painting for 30 years, ...

Morgan Riker is a Durham based artist who works with and integrates ceramics, drawing, and screen printing, and wire. She has lots of experience teaching art to people of all ...

Hyewon Grigoni has engaged in a variety of creative practices since childhood. Her work and writing have appeared in art shows, in print, and on air for public radio. She ...

As an environmental field scientist and artist, Rebecca Cox explores the environmental implications of the artmaking process. How do materials and methods become a part of a piece’s meaning? How ...

Free🦋✨is a black-queer-disabled-femme and multi-passionate creative living with a neurological disorder. She’s also a sexual trauma survivor and enjoys using her creativity as a tool for healing and self-expression. Free ...

Kenrick Ashland Jobe was born in summit, New Jersey. Kenrick was raised by Martin andDiana Jobe in South Orange New Jersey, both of which are Guyanese immigrants. Kenrickmoved to Lexington, ...

I currently serve as a Research Administration Specialist in the Neurosurgery Grants Department at the Duke University School of Medicine, where I support research initiatives through detailed administrative and grant-related ...

Becca Ibarra is a local Durham visual artist and papermaker exploring minimalism and abstraction through drawing, painting, and weaving. Her work is rooted in an intuitive process-based approach, often treated ...

Matt is a local Durham artist, Co-Director of Super G Print Lab and Senior Book Designer at Duke University Press.

Photo by Maximillian Cheng. Pik Kei Wong is a freelance dance creator based in Glasgow since 2023. She has 15 years of experience teaching contemporary dance. She has worked with The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, teaching creative and movement workshops to different faculties such as Architecture, Music, Lighting Design and Gender Studies.

Shelbi Polk is a writer and artist who has been embroidering since her childhood in Texas. She studied literature and actually gets to use that knowledge, both in her freelance ...

Mohammed Smahneh (aka Barges) is a self-taught hip-hop and contemporary dance artist, has won various break-dance battles in Palestine and performed in many international and local projects including: Badke, a co-production between ...

Arzu Salman takes the dance floor thanks to the efforts of transgender, queer and immigrant communities that precede him. His dancing is a fervid and unbridled love letter to those who ...

kate kyle is a channel for universal love grace wisdom healing her dancing body has injured and healed

Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Katelyn Lester is an artist who uses photography to speak about the relationship between man and the land through the lens of the ...

Raised in Durham, North Carolina JulieRose Hinson has been creating art from the earth since she was a child. After graduating college Julie went on to spend three years working ...

Amelia Shull is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and educator whose current practice centers on healing, mending, and creative reuse. Her most recent work explores various media and methods, including printmaking, ...

Sean is a Durham based visual artist with a focus on print and design. He spends his days rebranding small local businesses and his nights tending the fields on his ...

Ife Michelle is a Choreographer and Artist-Educator, engaging dance praxis as a means of exploring individual, communal, and cultural identity and expression. Through her primary movement styles (Traditional West-African, Hip-Hop, ...

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 ...

A self-taught artist and lifelong creative, Angie blends her passion for art with her devotion to mental health. Her diverse artistic journey has led her to explore various creative forms, ...

Chania Wilson is a Raleigh, NC native with a Bachelors in Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She currently attends Duke University to obtain her MFA in ...

River Takada is a Japanese American artist and craft teacher. River makes a variety of mixed media art focusing on material reuse, and sells locally at markets and online under ...

Sarah is a Durham-based illustrator and graphic designer with a focus on narrative-driven design. With experience in editorial, branding, print, and digital media, she’s passionate about making art and design ...

Holding an MFA in Directing and a MA and PhD in performance studies, Jules has been active in the Triangle theater-making scene for over 25 years and a faculty/staff member ...

Hailing from Indianapolis, Betsy brings a wealth of experience in the arts and culture sector. Prior to Duke, Betsy honed her skills at Carolina Performing Arts (CPA) at the University ...

Yesenia Martinez-Yanez is a graphic designer and arts marketing communicator from North Carolina. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Appalachian State University, where she developed a love for experimental ...

Anna Wallace is a current resident and native of Durham, North Carolina. She holds a BFA in Ceramics from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and an MFA in Studio Art ...

Originally from Cornwall, New York, Cheryl is a Chapel Hill–based arts professional with a background in theatre, stage management, and education. Cheryl has been active in the local arts community ...

Ashley’s love of the performing arts began on stage — as a musician first, and later as an advocate for artists and audiences alike. Her passion for connecting people through ...

Bill Fick has been a practicing artist and educator for more than 30 years and has been a lecturing fellow in the Duke Department of Art, Art History and Visual ...

Bassist, composer, educator and actor John Brown is a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and currently resides in Durham, NC. He is a graduate of the School of Music at ...

Frances joined Duke Arts in 2022, leading the organization’s branding, marketing, and communications strategy. She spearheaded the Duke Arts rebrand and the development of the Duke Arts Presents identity in ...

Aaron joined Duke Arts in April 2023, leading the team responsible for programming and producing a wide array of arts experiences with artists from across the globe in venues across Duke and Durham. For ...

Paul Kartcheske is the Production Manager for Duke Arts. He has built his career supporting the arts and the events industry for over 30 years. Paul has been involved in ...