Our Art of Renewal article and video series spotlights how Duke Arts Create instructors incorporate sustainability into their creative practice and offers ideas for incorporating reuse and other sustainable approaches into everyday art-making.
Our Duke Arts Create instructors are local artists from Durham and the surrounding area who lead hands-on arts workshops for Duke students, faculty, and staff, open to all skill levels throughout the academic year.
For Alex Glenn, what begins as creative curiosity in thrift stores expands into a practice rooted in transformation, sustainability, and self-expression, where each stitch extends the life and identity of a garment.
When Durham-based artist and Duke Arts Create Instructor Becca Ibarra makes paper, she begins with what most people disregard. Paper is usually thought of as a fresh start: a blank …
We are excited to feature Amelia Shull, multidisciplinary artist and educator, in our new Art of Renewal series. This series spotlights how Duke Arts Create instructors incorporate sustainability into their …
Duke Arts Create is a series of free, hands-on arts workshops designed to help all Duke students, including graduate and professional students (including Duke Health), as well as Duke faculty and staff develop a variety of creative skills in the visual arts, dance and movement, creative writing and more. Workshops are held throughout the academic year and open to all skill levels and backgrounds.
This series is written and produced by Duke Green Devil interns Jenna Arafeh and Yuchen Chen, who are working with Duke Arts through the Duke Office of Climate and Sustainability internship program for the 2025–26 academic year.
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