Master of Fine Arts in Experimental Documentary Arts

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mfaedacommencement

MFA|EDA 2025 Commencement Celebration

May 10, 2025

Join us as we celebrate the MFA|EDA Class of 2025 at the Center for Documentary Studies. Family, friends, colleagues, mentors, partners, diplomas, food, drink, revelry, his, high-fives. Come on by.

mfaedasalon

MFA|EDA Spring Salon

April 25, 2025

Please join us at the MFA Carpentry Shop on Friday, April 25th 6-9PM to connect with and celebrate one another in the spirit of experimental and documentary media. The MFAEDA ...

View of two people sitting on a cliff overlooking the blue sea and sky

Text & Pix April Gathering

April 16, 2025

Students, faculty and community members are welcome to join the MFA|EDA and English/Creative Writing programs for the next gathering of the Text & Pix Collective! Hear from Tom Rankin and ...

AKind of Performance

A Kind of Performance: Artist Hangout

April 9, 2025

March 17-April 9 Center for Documentary Studies Lyndhurst Gallery Multimedia Installation Photography, digital video, generative media Artist Hangout, April 9, 4:00pm Ziwen Liu (1999, China) is a multimedia artist working ...

Memorial Service: An Artist Talk

Memorial Service: An Artist Talk

April 7, 2025

April 4-13 Rubenstein Arts Center Gallery 235 Multimedia Installation Memorial Service: An Artist Talk, April 7, 5:00pm Those who died return again again human documents a return in search of ...

Key to Timeless

Key to Timeless: Artist Hangout

April 4, 2025

April 4-13 Rubenstein Arts Center Murthy Agora Multimedia Installation Artist Hangout April 4, 4:00pm Key to Timeless is an interactive exhibition that frames a conversation between two generations, on family, ...

Key to Timeless

Dingyi Xu: Key to Timeless

April 4, 2025

April 4-13 Rubenstein Arts Center Murthy Agora Multimedia Installation Artist Hangout April 4, 4:00pm Key to Timeless is an interactive exhibition that frames a conversation between two generations, on family, ...

Thesis Film Premieres

April 2, 2025

Premieres of thesis films from MFA|EDA Class of 2025 filmmakers: Bren Vienrich-Felling – Full Moon Over Palcazú Christopher Verstandig – The Work Behind the Wonder Clara Zhu – in 40 ...

The Child Within

The Child Within: Artist Talk

March 21, 2025

March 17-April 9 Fredric Jameson Gallery Artist Talk March 21, 5:30pm How did a hopeless street kid from Brooklyn grow up to be an artist, a teacher, a husband, and, ...

Free Space

Suanne Han: Free Space

March 20, 2025

March 20-29 Rubenstein Arts Center Gallery 235 Multimedia Installation Free Space focuses on how a group of young cosplayers in China transform an abandoned commercial mall into a vibrant hub ...

Ziwen Liu: A Kind of Performance

Ziwen Liu: A Kind of Performance

March 17, 2025

March 17-April 9 Center for Documentary Studies Lyndhurst Gallery Multimedia Installation Photography, digital video, generative media Ziwen Liu (1999, China) is a multimedia artist working as a filmmaker, photographer, and ...

Katelyn Lester: Western Semiotics

Katelyn Lester: Western Semiotics

March 17, 2025

March 17-April 9 Center for Documentary Studies Juanita Kreps Gallery Artist Talk March 27, 7:30pm Throughout my life, I have been immersed in the western community, from horseback riding to ...

The Child Within

Sai Varadan: The Child Within

March 17, 2025

March 17-April 9 Fredric Jameson Gallery Artist Talk March 21, 5:30pm How did a hopeless street kid from Brooklyn grow up to be an artist, a teacher, a husband, and, ...

Text & Pix Jan. Flyer

Text & Pix January Gathering

January 22, 2025

Students, faculty and community members are welcome to join the MFA|EDA and English/Creative Writing programs for the next gathering of the Text & Pix Collective! Hear from Professor Stan Abe ...

Once in a Lullaby (Joshua Minor, 2008, 5 minutes, color, sound)

Lodestar: Phil Solomon, In Memorium

September 19, 2024

Lodestar: Phil Solomon, in Memoriam Programmed and presented by Melinda Barlow, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts, University of Colorado An elegy and celebration of the ...

https://library.duke.edu/exhibits/2024/KrisGraves

Artist’s Talk with Kris Graves

September 12, 2024

Join Kris Graves for a discussion on his project “American Monuments” on view in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Refreshments and exhibit viewing will begin at ...

Natasha Lehner

Natasha Lehner: More of Everything

March 21, 2024

Cassilhaus March 21 – April 23 Reception: April 14, 2:00pm Artist Talk: April 15, 6:00pm More of Everything is an ongoing exploration of the artist’s recently discovered biological grandfather, Harvey ...