Art, Art History & Visual Studies

Upcoming Events

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A Mother Apart Film Screening and Workshop

Thursday, November 13 at 5:00pm

The FHI Black Feminist Working Group presents a screening of the creative documentary A Mother Apart (2024), followed by a hands-on workshop wherein participants will get the opportunity to respond ...

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Duke-UNC Critical Games Symposium 2025

Friday, November 21 at 12:30pm

The UNC-Duke Critical Games symposium will bring together scholars and artists from UNC and Duke and beyond who engage with the critical study and practice of games, both as a ...

Past Events

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Visiting Artist Talk with Dan Hale

November 5, 2025

Dan Hale tells stories through the mediums of animation, film, and photography, and is an Assistant Professor of Animation at UNC Greensboro. In 2019, he received an MFA in Digital ...

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“Designing Regenerative Bio-Digital Futures”

October 30, 2025

In light of current environmental crises, the emerging field of Biological Human-Computer Interaction (Bio-HCI) focuses on building deeper relationships between humans, computers, and biological systems. The resulting bio-digital technologies are ...

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CDS Spring Celebration

April 24, 2025

Join Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) for a celebration and showcase of emerging documentary work. Everyone is welcome – students, faculty, staff and community members. View exhibitions of CDS ...

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“Summoning Pearl Harbor”

March 24, 2025

How do words make the past appear? In what way does the historian summon bygone events? What is this kind of remembering, and for whom do we recall the dead? ...

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Beacon: Epistemologies of the Art Object

March 18, 2025

This virtual talk from Dr. Jane Blocker approaches the problem of disorientation for contemporary art through an analysis of an installation called “Beacon” (2007), by sound and new media artist ...

Artist Talk with Andrew Kozlowski

March 18, 2025

Andrew Kozlowski is a cartoonist, printmaker, writer, small press publisher, and art educator who has been living and working in Jacksonville Florida since 2017. His work has been included in ...

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“Jamaican Mascs” Closing Reception

February 28, 2025

Join us for the closing reception of “Jamaican Mascs,” an exhibition of documentary portraits and mixed-media collages that contest any singular representation of Jamaican masculinity. Curated by Jazmin Maço, this ...

Duke in L.A. Spring 2026 - Info Session

Duke in L.A. Study Away Info Session

February 27, 2025

Come learn about Duke in L.A.! The Duke in L.A. experience includes two seminars taught by Duke faculty, a student-selected course at the University of Southern California and a practicum ...

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“Environmental Art”

January 28, 2025

Durham-based international fiber artist Deborah Kruger will screen her documentary and then share a portfolio of her latest artwork that are currently on view at the Block Gallery in Raleigh, ...

Down South Dirt: Lecture and Reception

Down South Dirt: Lecture and Reception

October 23, 2024

In this opening public event of the 2024-25 Keohane Professorship, interdisciplinary artist and scholar Ashon Crawley will present on the relation of dirt and soil to the making of Black life, and how degrading the earth is part of the attempt to unmake Black possibility.

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“GLORY BE THE QUEERS”

September 26, 2024

Following an autobiographical trajectory, the talk examines a cumulative body of work which challenges the bounds of a medium deeply rooted in tradition through the visual study and application of ...