Arts

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Text & Pix February Gathering

February 5, 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 ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

February 5, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

February 4, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

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Voices of Shared Humanity: Bilingual poetry reading

February 4, 2025

Arabic-Hebrew Night Please RSVP: https://forms.gle/3caJqmwXQ3669hDt9 Recorded presentation by Almog Behar and readings by Ellen McLarney (AMES) and Reut Israela Ben-yaakov (AMES postdoctoral associate). Contribution by Hanan Jasim Khammas (DISC postdoctoral ...

Inside Arts+: The Duke Arts Presents Admin Team

Over six weeks, this team played a key role in launching the 2024-25 season and supporting our summer concert series, Music in the Gardens. From researching artists and building event pages to brainstorming community outreach, they gained transferrable, resume-building professional skills.

Photo of conductor and musicians. Text: Bach Cantata Series.

Bach Cantata Series: Solo Cantatas

February 2, 2025

Johann Sebastian Bach’s church cantatas are often considered the pinnacle of German sacred music, works whose theological depth and emotional resonance touch deep places in the human soul. This year, ...

Lighting setup with Hitchcock's hand

Workshop: Cinema Lighting I

February 2, 2025

A practical introduction to the manipulation of the characteristics of light, in order to modify, recreate, or invent light of any kind. We consider angle, intensity, color, softness, and falloff ...

dancers moving and singing

Thresholding: Dance MFA thesis event

February 2, 2025

Dance MFA candidate em Liptow presents THRESHOLDING, the culmination of several months of creative process with fellow Threshold Singers (a practice of singing at bedside to the sick and dying.) ...

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CANCELLED: Gabriel Richard, Violin Recital

January 31, 2025

Gabriel Richard presents “Tribute to Maurice Ravel.” Joseph Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism ...

Work in Progress by Hansol Jung

January 31, 2025

Workshop presentation of guest artist Hansol Jung as part of the Department of Theater Studies New Works Labs series. General admission, no reservations. Reception to follow.

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Full Frame Winter Road Show: UNION

January 30, 2025

Full Frame partners with The Cary Theater in Cary, N.C. to host a screening of the Oscar®-shortlisted documentary UNION. Winter Road Show screenings are free and open to the public, ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 30, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Embroidery

Embroidery
Taught by River Takada

February 12, 2025

Explore the craft of decorating fabric using a needle and thread. Practice creating imagery using colorful thread- students will learn tips and techniques to achieve traditional embroidery styles.

Duke in London - Arts Info Session

Duke in London-Arts Info Session

January 29, 2025

Join Duke in London-Arts Faculty Director, Torry Bend, to learn more about this 4-week summer program. Become familiar with London’s cosmopolitan character and experience the work of London’s culturally diverse ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 29, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Kruger Poster

“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, ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 28, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Think Outside the Box

Open Playful Pedagogy Workshops

January 28, 2025

Open workshops adapt and apply purposeful play activities that include improv, creative writing, oral storytelling, movement, and other arts-based activities to a variety of pedagogical challenges and opportunities. This spring ...

Duke Arts Grad Mixer

April 3, 2025

Duke Arts invites all graduate, professional, and medical students. students for a casual night of artmaking and music with free drinks and food!

James Kibbie

Organ Recital Series: James Kibbie

February 16, 2025

James Kibbie is a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, where his 42-year tenure included service as University Organist and Chair of the Organ Department. Renowned as an authority ...

Choir members singing in Duke Chapel

Choral Evensong Worship Service

January 26, 2025

For centuries, the church has marked the transition from daytime to evening with psalms, prayer, and song. Duke Chapel’s Choral Evensong follows this historic pattern, using the liturgy of the ...

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Workshop: Camera Movement

January 26, 2025

Students are shown the surprisingly rich feature set of a modern tripod, and we quickly move through locked-off shots, fluid head moves, full and portable dolly moves, jib shots, gimbals, ...

Rouny-round dolly shot

Workshop: Camera Movement

January 26, 2025

Students are shown the surprisingly rich feature set of a modern tripod, and we quickly move through locked-off shots, fluid head moves, full and portable dolly moves, jib shots, gimbals, ...

Photo of woman with scarf. Text: Sacred Choral Clinic.

Sacred Choral Clinic

January 25, 2025

Church choir singers and directors are invited to the Chapel’s second annual sacred choral clinic, featuring Dr. Pearl Shangkuan, an internationally renowned conductor and pedagogue, who is Professor Emerita at ...

A father and daughter embrace. They are at a dance wearing formal clothing.

Full Frame Winter Road Show: DAUGHTERS

January 23, 2025

Full Frame partners with The Cary Theater in Cary, N.C. to host a screening of the Oscar®-shortlisted documentary DAUGHTERS. All Winter Road Show screenings are free and open to the ...

loadbang

loadbang: New Works by Duke Graduate Composers

January 23, 2025

New York City-based new music chamber group loadbang (trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice) premieres six new pieces written for them by Duke graduate student composers; Erich Barganier, Tyler ...

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Artist Reception

January 23, 2025

This is the opening reception for the exhibition “Imagination and Promise: The Theological Aesthetics of Hope” by Jaden Dejesus Blango, a Duke Divinity School student. Selected as this year’s C. ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 23, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

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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 ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

[Canceled] Organ Demonstration

January 22, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 21, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Agnes Varda at the camera

Workshop: The Cinema Camera

January 19, 2025

We begin by examining cameras, from phone to IMAX, as a set of connected systems: power, image taking, interface, mount, processor, display, storage, lens system, accessories, and physical attachment points. ...

Agnes Varda at the camera

Workshop: The Cinema Camera

January 19, 2025

We begin by examining cameras, from phone to IMAX, as a set of connected systems: power, image taking, interface, mount, processor, display, storage, lens system, accessories, and physical attachment points. ...

Paper Making

Paper Making
Taught by Becca Ibarra

March 18, 2025

Learn to make paper from recycled materials like junk mail! In this zero-waste workshop, we'll use a blended pulp to create sheets of paper using the dip method with a mold and deckle.

Photo of an old prayer book. Text: Singing the Psalms.

Singing the Psalms [in Goodson Chapel]

January 17, 2025

For centuries, monastic orders and other faith communities have prayed the Psalms cyclically from beginning to end. The musical character of the Psalms has long been expressed through various settings-from ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 16, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 15, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 14, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Choir members singing in Duke Chapel

Choral Evensong Worship Service

January 12, 2025

For centuries, the church has marked the transition from daytime to evening with psalms, prayer, and song. Duke Chapel’s Choral Evensong follows this historic pattern, using the liturgy of the ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 9, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 8, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 7, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Photos of choir members singing. Text: Epiphany Lessons and Carols

Epiphany Lessons & Carols

January 5, 2025

Based on the formula made famous by the Christmas Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge, this service follows a similar pattern of readings, choral anthems, and congregational hymns. Paid ...

Getting Started

Getting Started
Taught by JP Gritton and Meesha Maren

January 22, 2025

Please join novelists JP Gritton and Mesha Maren for a workshop and lecture on the theme of GETTING STARTED. A collaboration with the Duke Writers Collective and the Department of English, these workshops bring writers from around the Triangle for 90-minute lectures on the craft.

Photo of Duke Chapel decorated for Christmas. Text: Lessons and Carols.

Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols

December 24, 2024

This is the traditional Lessons and Carols Christmas Eve Service with candlelight, scripture readings, and Christmas carols. *** Attendees of this service are advised to arrive early to allow for ...

Magic Love Jars

Magic Love Jars
Taught by Jac Michel

January 29, 2025

Self Love and Magic is the way to go! In this workshop we will explore the practice of self love through art and expression. We will discuss the ways to add more Love into our new year with Love Jars.

Screen Printing

Screen Printing
Taught by Robby Poore

January 28, 2025

This two-hour workshop will cover the basics of putting images on screens (making a stencil), ink mixing, and how to effectively use a squeegee to get ink through the screen and print multiple copies of an image.

Journal Making

Journal Making
Taught by Maria Greary

January 14, 2025

Immerse yourself in a dynamic experience where you’ll not only discover creative techniques but also grasp the significance of journaling. You’ll take home a stunning 9x12 painting to remind you to take time to relax in art.

Wire Sculpture

Wire Sculpture
Taught by Morgan Riker

January 9, 2025

In this workshop you’ll learn the basics of wire sculpture, specifically aiming toward observing and forming plant sculptures. We’ll start with a quick drawing warmup (NO DRAWING EXPERIENCE or SKILL NECESSARY!), and then learn how to form a simple cone flower and leaves, with plenty of space for making it your own.

Organ demonstrations at Duke Chapel

Organ Demonstration

December 18, 2024

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Organ demonstrations at Duke Chapel

Organ Demonstration

December 17, 2024

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Weaving

Weaving
Taught by Amelia Shull

January 8, 2025

Students will be provided with a mini loom and selection of yarns. Together we will work through some simple weaving stitches and create something decorative.

Duke Arts Staff Must-Watch Movies for the Holiday Season

In preparation for the winter holidays, we asked Duke Arts staff members to share their favorite movies to watch during the holiday season. This list features animated classics to unique picks, including magical adventures and dark twists on Santa Claus lore. Perfect for exploring something new or rewatching a beloved favorite.

Choir members singing in Duke Chapel

Choral Evensong Worship Service

December 15, 2024

For centuries, the church has marked the transition from daytime to evening with psalms, prayer, and song. Duke Chapel’s Choral Evensong follows this historic pattern, using the liturgy of the ...

Photo of candles. Text: Advent Lessons and Carols

Advent Lessons and Carols

December 12, 2024

Based on the formula made famous by the Christmas Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge, this service follows a similar pattern of readings, choral anthems, and congregational hymns. It ...

Organ demonstrations at Duke Chapel

Organ Demonstration

December 12, 2024

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Organ demonstrations at Duke Chapel

Organ Demonstration

December 11, 2024

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

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Gift Maker’s Lounge

December 10, 2024

Need a study break? Stop by the Co-Lab anytime between 11am-2pm on December 9th and 10th to make customized gifts for your friends and family! And because no cozy afternoon ...

Duke Holiday Concert

Duke Employee Holiday Concert

December 10, 2024

Staff and faculty throughout the University and Health System as well as members of the Duke University Retiree Association (DURA) will be invited to Duke’s annual Holiday Concert at the ...

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Gift Maker’s Lounge

December 9, 2024

Need a study break? Stop by the Co-Lab anytime between 11am-2pm on December 9th and 10th to make customized gifts for your friends and family! And because no cozy afternoon ...

Photo of a choir singing. Text: Handel's Messiah

Handel’s Messiah

December 8, 2024

Since 1933, Duke University Chapel has welcomed the holiday season with the sublime music of Messiah. From the haunting strains of “The people that walked in darkness” to the exuberant ...

Photo of a choir singing. Text: Handel's Messiah

Handel’s Messiah

December 7, 2024

Since 1933, Duke University Chapel has welcomed the holiday season with the sublime music of Messiah. From the haunting strains of “The people that walked in darkness” to the exuberant ...

A sea of white tulips in a garden in the foreground and a wooden pergola in the background, with a blue Duke Gardens logo at top.

Holiday Greenery: Build Your Own Wreath

December 7, 2024

Duke Gardens horticulturists Michelle Rawlins and Megan Brown will demonstrate how to construct a holiday wreath for your front door using fresh cut greenery from the Gardens. Each participant will ...

Photo of a choir singing. Text: Handel's Messiah

Handel’s Messiah

December 6, 2024

Since 1933, Duke University Chapel has welcomed the holiday season with the sublime music of Messiah. From the haunting strains of “The people that walked in darkness” to the exuberant ...