Students in Shambhavi Kaul's "Expanded Cinema" course created immersive, large-scale installations in the Rubenstein Arts Center in Fall 2021. Their work demonstrates the value of designated spaces for instructional arts learning, experimentation, and practice.
Christopher Scully-Thurston's No Conflick at the RAC is an audio triptych collage made only from sounds collected during evenings at the Rubenstein Arts Center, where Scully-Thurston works as a senior technician of venue and production management.
From online open houses to intimate Music in Your Gardens streaming concerts, browse arts offerings for incoming students offered during Weeks of Welcome (Aug 10–28, 2020).
"I'm excited to see what we'll create together. I'm excited to join you in rising to the challenges that we face and moving through them together."—John V. Brown, JD, Vice Provost for the Arts
Student groups also found new ways to present their work, lifting each other up and offering an antidote for social distancing to the Duke community. We honor their inventiveness and hard work with this round-up.
Are you a student artist who has been working on a project this year? Do you enjoy hearing friends talk about their art? Join us online!
Riddell will lead discussions on how to build a stronger arts culture at Duke, how to build a professional career in the arts, and what Duke's administration can do to help students with interests in the arts.
In this student-to-student interview, a Duke senior and pre-med major shares his journey from the classroom to joining 9th Wonder's team at Jamla Records.
In this DukeJournos interview with Deondra Rose, a Duke Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and Author, we learn the power and importance of using writing to push the boundaries of knowledge and promote human advancement.
Students and alumni reflect on their experiences at the 10th Annual Duke Entertainment, Media & Arts Network (DEMAN) Weekend on November 1–2, 2019.
The inaugural Duke STEAM Forum was designed to give visibility and voice to those who are passionate about STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics) at Duke.
Celebrate the students, faculty, staff, and donors who create Duke's inviting and exceptional creative community. Read the report online or download a PDF copy.
Celebrate a decade of DEMAN on November 1st and 2nd! View the schedule of events for DEMAN Weekend 2019 below.
In this interview with singer-songwriter Julie Williams (Trinity ’19), we learn how this Florida-raised public policy student grew from singing national anthems at the ballpark to embarking on a music gap year in Nashville after graduation.
In this interview with artist Cameron Oglesby (T ‘21), we learn how this environmental science major from Midlothian, Virginia, uses art to communicate her passion about environmental awareness and action. “I think that art has real potential to connect people,” says Cameron.
“This show is such a beautiful showcase of a culture that is often misrepresented,” says Maria Zurita-Ontiveros, a Duke Sophomore and Director of Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s Spring 2019 production of In The Heights. Duke Arts sits down with Maria and lead cast member, Gustavo Andrade, to learn more about how this special show celebrates Latinx diversity and empowers individuals to proudly represent the communities they call home.
In graphic medicine, comics act as a creative space to explore what are often deeply felt and complicated dynamics between patients, providers, disease and health systems.
Sujal Manohar (Class of 2020) is a double-major in neuroscience and visual arts. An exhibit of her drawings in the Wellness Center Art Gallery proves the two fields are not as far apart as one might think.
Discover the story behind one of the newest pieces of art on Duke’s campus—a traffic box transformed with color by the Nasher Museum of Art, born out of a collaboration between the City of Durham and a Fall 2018 Duke course. "I discovered that the explorer John Lawson dubbed Durham “the flower of the Carolinas,” says artist Britt Flood.
Two engineering students and the manager of the Duke Costume Shop share their unique collaboration to build a prosthetic device.
Before we close out 2018, Duke Arts takes a moment to look back at a year of growth, creativity, and diversity in the arts across our community.
Virtual reality is often associated with gaming and entertainment. In this piece, Mark Steelman, the president of Duke's VR club, talks about the limitless possibilities that virtual reality offers—including in the arts.
"The mural at Duke was defaced...because it made people aware that there is a vibrant and powerful Latinx community in the university and the area," notes Dr. Márquez, a Romance Studies Professor at UNC. Duke Arts explores how Duke students and community members used visual art to protest the defacement of a Latinx Heritage mural on East Campus.
Get to know Dare Coulter, a Triangle-based artist, sculptor, and muralist who combines distinct aspects of color, culture, and creativity to re-imagine communities of color in joyous and powerful spaces. "The reason that I paint what I paint is that I need people to be in it. It has to be people."
The Rubenstein Arts Center hosted two visiting artists in September and October as part of Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom, an exhibition on view at the Power Plant Gallery through November 17, 2018.
Nimmi Ramanujam once envisioned life as a musician but found her purpose in engineering.
Gift enables Duke to set a new standard in immersive arts education and community engagement using the Rubenstein Arts Center.
A student-to-student interview with Jeainny Kim, recipient of the Sudler Prize and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Award at this year's Arts Awards.
A look back at the impact of contributions made to the arts across Duke during the Duke Forward campaign and beyond.
This multimedia exhibit by Danny Kim (MFA EDA '18) and Peter Lisignoli (MFA EDA '13) takes viewers to one of the world's most talked about—but least visited—areas.
