Duke Arts and the Nasher invites students, undergraduate and graduate, to explore the museum, create punk-inspired art, and learn about various arts and activism related resources on campus.

Join author and scholar Najha Zigbi-Johnson for a gallery talk exploring Mapping Malcolm in conversation with the exhibition, Turn the volume up! Moderated by Durham-based artist Marcella Zigbuo Camara, the ...

Celebrate Black History Month with a guided tour of “Everything Now All at Once,” featuring standout works from the Nasher’s contemporary collection. With a longstanding commitment to artists who have ...

Performance: 6:30 PM (Great Hall) Artist Talk: 7:00 PM (Lecture Hall) Reception to Follow The Nasher is hosting an evening with artist Raheleh Filsoofi, who returns to the museum following ...

Looking for a place to study for finals? The Nasher Museum will be open Monday, December 8 from 2 PM to 10 PM, exclusively for Duke students! Enjoy free warm ...

Join Durham’s beloved jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon for the launch for her new memoir, Beneath the Skin of Sorrow: Improvisations on Loss (Duke University Press). She will be joined in ...

Celebrate two decades of creativity and community at the Nasher Museum 20th Anniversary Celebration! Join us as we commemorate this milestone with the grand opening of the Nancy A. Nasher ...

Join Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History, and Trevor Schoonmaker, Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Director of the Nasher Museum, for a conversation ...

Join Nasher MUSE and duArts to celebrate the student-curated exhibition, “On the Same Wavelength: Art Science & Conservation.” Enjoy art-making activities inspired by the exhibitions, student performers, and capture the ...

Join us for collaborative program between Duke Campus Farm and the Nasher Museum. We will start with a tour at the museum considering art that helps us explore how humans ...

Dr. Zelda Lockhart will share the unanswered family questions that led to generational research and the writing of her novels Trinity and Cold Running Creek. All will be led in ...

6:00 PM Lecture Hall doors open 6:30 PM Artist talk Followed by reception and cash bar Registration required (livestream also available) Signature Artist Lecture: Cannupa Hanska Luger Parking is free ...

Join Duke undergraduate and graduate students for a gallery talk on their co-curated exhibition, Climate Hope: Photographic Works from the Nasher Collection, on view in the Academic Focus Gallery. The ...

Join our experienced Gallery Guides for a quirky tour of the museum! After learning more about our exhibitions, we will sketch back-to-back, go on a scavenger hunt and more. You ...

Introduced by Gustavo Furtado, Romance Studies at Duke. With the presence of the director, Jorge Bodansky Free and open to the public. Dir. by Jorge Bodansky. Brazil. 2022. 75 min. ...

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 ...

Join our experienced Gallery Guides for a quirky tour of the museum! After learning more about our exhibitions, we will sketch back-to-back, go on a scavenger hunt and more. You ...

Join us for a free, interactive, family-oriented classical concert full of fun, playful music in the Nasher Museum’s Sculpture Garden. The music will inspire kids of all ages to celebrate ...

Enjoy an interactive, family-oriented classical concert, Our Beautiful Planet Earth, in partnership with the Durham Medical Orchestra in our Sculpture Garden. The pieces performed will be fun and playful ones ...

Join the Wilson Center for Science and Justice for a discussion of the wide-ranging impacts of the criminal legal system on individuals and communities. Members of our Duke Law community ...

Join this tour led by a gallery guide of the new exhibition Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene. Learn more about this traveling exhibition organized by Chief ...

6:00 PM Self-guided visit of “Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene” 6:30 PM Welcome and introduction of the film by Bass Connections team, Climate Hope 6:35 – ...

“Dance, for our family, is a parenthesis for life experience. Periods of our lives that we spent working on choreography coincide with periods of major things happening in our lives ...

Join ADF for an immersive professional dance performance! YOGGS FAMILY NEWSLETTER, 2014-present, is an immersive experience where the audience is led through the lobby of the Nasher Museum of Art ...

Collaborate with the community and create a floor mural inspired by Odili Donald Odita’s “Shadow and Light (for Julian Francis Abele)” prominently displayed in our Great Hall. Have fun with ...

Join us as Durham’s own Stormie Daie kicks off Durham Pride month with a Drag Mini-Ball here at the Nasher Museum! Times subject to change. Stay tuned! Cash bar, live ...

Join us to celebrate the opening of Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene with special tours of this original, traveling exhibition. Enjoy a drink from the cash ...

Public Reflections Program tours offer people who live with memory loss and their families and caregivers the chance to enjoy, discuss and create art. Free parking passes are available. To ...

Celebrate the Beat of Life with readings and activities provided by our friends at Durham County Library and drumming sessions with Raleigh Drum Circle that will energize your spirits! Parking ...

Join our experienced Gallery Guides for a quirky tour of the museum! After learning more about our exhibitions, we will sketch back-to-back, go on a scavenger hunt and more. You ...

June 19, 1865, widely known as Juneteenth, marks the day that enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were informed of their freedom. In commemoration of the long-held fight for freedom, ...

Take a trip through time and explore works of art with defining characteristics that give us a clue into when they were made. Enjoy looking at and learning about real-life ...

Do you love art and can’t stop talking about it? Do you love talking and can’t stop talking? Period. Come to Chatty Thursday, then, where you will meet a new ...

Stormie Daie comes back to the Nasher as fabulous as ever! Celebrate National Pride Month learning professional make up tips from experienced drag queens. Makeup supplies will be provided. Space ...

With a filming style akin to the artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Beba (Director Rebeca Huntt, 2022, 79 minutes, Rated R) is a self-portrait of the star, producer and director Rebeca ...

6 PM Cash Bar 6:30 PM Lecture Hall doors open 7 PM – Conversation between Shantrelle P. Lewis and Omisade Burney-Scott María Magdalena Campos-Pons has long centered African spirituality in ...

Join us for an outdoor party featuring Afro-Caribbean dance performances and Afro drumming lessons. We’ll celebrate Behold with fun art activities: Camera obscura making and mobiles with modeling clay and ...

We welcome UNC professor and photographer Lindsay Metivier for a one-of-a-kind workshop! After reviewing photography composition techniques, learn how to transfer images from a Polaroid picture onto a new surface. ...