This work is an interdisciplinary installation that focuses on the ways embodied storytelling can function as a historical care practice. This installation aids in the creation of a nonlinear archive based on the stories, memories, and lived experiences of Black folks in America.

This program brings together works by Pedro Lasch that are as varied as their settings. Projected in large scale at museums and galleries, all works have been meticulously co-edited with Michael Blair to become video art in its own terms—as opposed to simply documenting Lasch’s social and site-specific art.

A Fall From Grace is a multimedia project by Zaire McPhearson, MFA EDA '20, that tells the story of single Black women and their children involved in a cult from the mid-1970s through the early 2000s.

Sinewaves in the Triangle is an immersive multimedia installation that uses technology to express the artistic mind and the creative process to illicit an emotional and physical reaction in the viewer.

Carl Pope brought his ongoing graphic poster/essay installation “The Bad Air Smelled of Roses” (2004—) to Duke. Pope collaborated with students in Bill Fick’s “Poster Design and Printing” course to complete this iteration of the project.

Antoine Williams used the Rubix as canvas for his work “Othered Suns,” a wheat paste and sound installation. Williams is a mixed-media artist and educator who uses art to explore his cultural identity.

The Rubix is a temporary experimental structure created for visual and installation art research. Faculty in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies are exploring the question: What is public art and how is it made? Future projects in and on this structure will attempt to answer this question.

This project explores the enigmatic relationship between the artist and Viola McCoy, an unrelated woman whose 1930s photograph came into her possession and captivated her several years ago.

This immersive installation incorporating sound, photography, and video brings twenty-five years of award-winning ethnomusicological fieldwork in South Africa to life.

1600 Vine: The Musical is an original multimedia theatrical project loosely based on a Los Angeles apartment complex that is home to social media’s trendiest celebrities.

This life-sized dome was designed to serve as a meditative space for students, faculty and members of the wider community. This installation was designed and built by undergraduate Kora Kwok (Trinity, ’20), who is exploring how art spaces can foster human connections.

The Praxis of Material Culture Research.

Illness Revelations breaks new ground in the growing field of the medical and health humanities by centering socially-engaged arts practice.

Layers of Dreamscapes reimagines how we can be immersed in a piece of art by adding a new physical dimension to one of the most popular and oldest subjects of paintings: the landscape.

Informed by a series of interviews with Duke students about their experience with chronic illness, Living Invisible attempts to understand how the visibility of an illness affects a person’s understanding of health and the world around them.

A collaboration between students and immigrant artist Cornelio Campos to create a mural showing the struggles, contributions, and histories of the Native American, Black, and Hispanic communities in farm work around North Carolina and the United States.

Christopher Lam, engineer and watercolorist, will use his residency at the ruby to engineer a 21st-century form of watercolor expression that is three-dimensional and interactive like a pop-up book.

Empowerment through the integration of innovative new women's health technologies, visual arts, and story-telling.

A month-long installation by Duke filmmaking professor Shambhavi Kaul allows her to create a more immersive experience of her 15-minute video loop that distills the essence of "airplane space."

Development of a tactile and responsive instrument for live performance by graduate students in Duke's Computational Media, Arts, and Culture program.

Art objects and furniture made from man-made, non-recyclable trash bring disposed items back to use in a new context.

As the impacts of climate change and hydropower dams take hold on the Mekong, their combination has a human cost.

The Franklin Humanities Institute's Social Practice Lab is supporting Create, Innovate, Act!, a Spring 2018 course taught in the Ruby by Pedro Lasch.

Bill Thelen's installation for the Ruby's grand opening will expand—quite literally!—on his memento of the Biscuit King, an old Durham landmark.

"Cornered" is an art installation using video projections to express the hopes and hardships of African migrants.