Join NCLAFF virtually this year to watch films and join conversations reflecting on 35 years of Latin American and Caribbean films.

Duke Magazine's Scott Huler writers about a new Duke University MFA program that "endorses dance as a politically, socially, and spiritually transformative force in society."

Before the pandemic shut everything down, visiting artist John Felix Arnold was working with students to create a conceptual portrait of Durham—his hometown—in the Ruby.

Watch the Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba performance, which was filmed at the Greensboro Science Center and premiered online Sun, Sep 13.

Beverly McIver was asked to participate in political public art project led by People for the American Way, and it sparked a series of directly political paintings. McIver is Professor of the Practice in Duke's Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies.

Robinson channelled his academic focus on environmental science and documentary studies into a film, “Louisiana’s Missing Coast”—it’s now a 2020 Student Academy Awards Finalist.

Alexandra Bailliere '92 reflects on the growth of arts at Duke over the past 30 years and shares a piece created during the coronavirus crisis.

When the coronavirus crisis led to an unexpected and impressive turn in the final project for Michael Faber's "Graphic Design in Multimedia" class. The result? A 50-page magazine about graphic design and staying connected called "Connectere."

Duke Dance instructor Glenna Batson shares a reflection on the role of movement and dance during the coronavirus crisis and the social distancing that comes with it.

Freelance and documentary photographer Denise Allen shares "My Son Matters," a photography exhibit comprised of portraits of African-American parents with their sons with accompanying statements. Allen created this exhibit to elevate and honor the relationship between African-American mothers and their sons while shining a loving light on the young men whose existence is often stigmatized.

This summer, we’re proud to present Music in Your Gardens, a free eight-week online concert series showcasing nationally renowned artists who call Durham and the surrounding area home. The series shifts Duke ...

"Dance reminds you and teaches you the infinite nuances of life.  Excitement and joy in life is not limited to the big bangs, the major earthquakes; it is also the light brush of grief or the gentle awareness of beauty.  Dance can teach, or reteach, us what that means," says Barbara Dickinson, Emerita Dance Faculty.

Amir Williams '18 shares her multimedia project "capturing the musical ensemble of the current protests and fight for lasting change" titled "with stringed instruments."

As the world retreated to virtual spaces, Duke MFAEDA graduate Laurids Andersen Sonne and a colleague turned a storage unit into a place for their friends and neighbors to have an intimate, in-person experience of art.

A new collection documenting our coronavirus spring by the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts community.

Corey Pilson '20 shares his photography series with the Duke Arts community to invite us "to see black men in a new light."

Bruzelius, a world-renowned expert on medieval architecture and Duke's Anne Murnick Cogan Professor Emerita of Art and Art History, is among 34 new members this year.

Vice Provost for the Arts Scott Lindroth reflects for the ongoing "Art and Artists Are Essential" series, writing: "One thing that I feel more urgently than ever before is the importance of making your own work. It brings us back to ourselves."

Katherine Jennings '84 shares oil paintings of downtown Durham created while contemplating the future of urban landscapes and profound change in city life due to the coronavirus crisis.

Talya Klein, who taught "Acting for the Camera" this spring, shares the class's final project, an original feature filmed titled "EMERGENCY CONTACTS" set in 2030 during a new, fictional pandemic that explores and incorporates present experiences during the coronavirus crisis.

Abhilash Sivadas shares a drawing of the goddess Durga he's created utilizing the sacred rhythmic measure known as Navatala, the use of Navatala, and how he views art as a tool to elevate consciousness.

Graduate student Stanley Sun shares an acrylic painting depicting social distancing that he painted to process the feeling of separation that comes with the coronavirus crisis.

Michelle Liang, a student in Professor Kelly Alexander's course Our Culinary Cultures (CA285S/DOCST 344S) shares her final paper for the course: "From MSG to COVID-19: The Politics of America’s Fear of Chinese Food."

Duke faculty teaching visual arts, music, and theater share how they navigated the move to online teaching. It wasn’t easy. Supplies were mailed, collaborative projects were reinvented. Transformations and solutions discovered this spring have expanded the teaching repertoire—even as we look forward to safely returning to studio and stage.

Todd Bashore '94 shares a multitrack solo performance of his transcription of Take 6's "A Quiet Place" as part of our call for "Art and Artists are Essential" collection and invitation.

Sophia Li shares her final photography project, "Food for Trash"—created for the course Ways of Seeing: Storytelling through Photography with Professor Charlotte de la Fuente Nørregaard (DIS Copenhagen)—which meditates on the meaning of food scraps during the coronavirus crisis.

Sarah Wilbur, assistant professor of the practice of dance, was teaching seminars on collaborative performance and valuing labor in the arts—just as the arts world entered a period of unforeseen challenges.

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.

Inspired by her travels around the world, Fuqua School of Business at Duke alumnus Inesa Preciado shares fine art landscape paintings she has created as a way to find escape and comfort in art during the coronavirus crisis.

Students in this documentary studies and cultural anthropology course taught by Kelly Alexander “opened their hearts and minds to cooking and eating ‘apart together.’"

Students in David Heid's piano studio recorded their recital pieces from their homes due to COVID-19 distancing measures, the resulting video is a virtual recital bringing these separate pieces together.

Inspired by the demand for toilet paper during COVID-19, Nancy C. Sampson created a satirical zine titled, "Make Your Own Toilet Paper," saying that especially during challenging times, humor can be a helpful resource.

Mia Bolognesi is a junior in high school who shares portraits she has created as a reminder that creating art can bring light even during dark times.

Donovan Zimmerman, founder and director of the collective of artists known as the Paperhand Puppet Intervention, shares the soulful and captivating experience of their summer 2019 performance, "We Are Here."

Ira Knight shares a performance of "From Myth To Man: Martin Luther King, An Interpretation," as recorded live at the Ruby earlier this year, as a reminder of our shared humanity to create better days ahead.

Kelly C. Tang, a PhD Candidate in Art History, shares mixed-media drawings on letters she's made for friends during the coronavirus crisis, sharing how snail mail has allowed her to focus on those connections and relationships.

James Budinich, a PhD candidate in Music Composition, is giving a talk with his artistic collaborator, Gabrielle Lamb, on creating work together, from a distance. James reflects on the strategies that helped them produce Plexus: a work in knots, "strategies that can benefit all artists in our post-COVID reality."

"Want to learn how to edit in Adobe Premiere? Make films from the comfort of your living room?" Browse Summer Session courses in the documentary arts (camera not always required)!

Ashleigh Smith, Nasher intern and Duke Class of 2020, was excited to organize a small exhibition at the Nasher Museum this spring. When the museum temporarily closed, she converted the installation to a multimedia online project, which includes a Spotify playlist and podcast episode. An extension of her senior thesis, the project is the product of two years of research.

Students share their Visual Arts capstone projects online in lieu of a physical exhibition.

“The radical nature of art, at least the truth of it that I have come to embrace, is its capacity for care, empathy, reciprocity, invitation and correspondence with others.”—Dario Robleto, artist based in Houston and member of the Nasher Museum’s Board of Advisors. The global pandemic reminds Robleto of his early years as an artist, when social distancing, seclusion and self-reflection came naturally to him.

In advance of their Duke Performances livestream concert on Wed, Apr 22, we asked Kate McGarry and Keith Ganz reflect on an unexpected move back to Durham and potential benefits of this slower time at home.

Lana Garland is a writer, filmmaker, photographer, instructor who shares photographs, writing, and her thoughts on the role of art during this time as part of our "Art and Artists are Essential" collection and invitation.

Jaylan Rhea, an interdisciplinary artist, shares his portrait photography as part of our "Art and Artists are Essential" collection and invitation.

Corbie Hill is a musician and staff writer at Duke Magazine who shares a song he wrote as part of our "Art and Artists are Essential" collection and invitation.

Debora Cordero Martinez, a sophomore at Duke shares her photography series that comments on the targeting of black people in the United States as part of our "Art and Artists are Essential" collection and invitation.

The Durham Medical Orchestra and community musicians collaborated in a virtual performance of a new piece by Durham composer Steven Bryant, sharing music and creativity as an important component to battling stress during the current pandemic.

Sujal Manohar is a senior neuroscience and visual arts double major whose senior Graduate with Distinction project in Visual Arts, Reflect: Mental Health Experiences at Duke, focuses on mental health experiences at Duke. She shares this work with us as part of our "Art and Artists are Essential" collection and invitation.

Oliver Greenwald is a first year studying Computer Science and Visual Arts while pursuing a minor in Psychology and an Innovation & Entrepreneurship certificate. He shares his digital artwork as part of our "Art and Artists are Essential" collection and invitation.

Instead of documenting Hillsborough, Susie Post-Rust and her Center for Documentary Studies students began documenting their experience of the current pandemic, questioning what it means to “Stay At Home.”

A violin instructor in the Department of Music, Jennifer shares a video of an outdoor performance.

In advance of his Duke Performances livestream concert on Wed, Apr 15, we asked Jake Xerxes Fussell to reflect on how the coronavirus crisis has impacted his work, and what he is finding reassuring.

Robin Yeh is a senior visual arts major who has completed an independent study and capstone project with Beverly McIver. She shares her artwork as part of our "Art and Artists are Essential" collection and invitation.

Christian Boada is a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University, and "the vizual scientist" on Instagram shares artwork as part of our "Art and Artists are Essential" collection and invitation.

Aaron Zhao, a visual arts and biology major, shares a video he made while sheltering safely at home as part of our "Art and Artists are Essential" collection and invitation.

Yukai Qian, a mechanical engineering and visual arts major and a math minor, shares photographs as part of our "Art and Artists are Essential" collection and invitation.

John Brown, director of the Duke University Jazz Program, says: "Remember that art and artists will still be there for us on the other side when we reach that light. Artists need us just as much as we need them."

Duke English Majors read poems for comfort.

As part of our ongoing "Art for Duke" series, we hand over our platform to students to share their work with our online community in place of in-person performances, exhibits, and other events. Duke senior Jacob Liang shares an aria sung by Friar Laurence in Gounod's "Romeo and Juliette."

In advance of his Duke Performances livestream concert this Wednesday, we asked guitarist and composer William Tyler to reflect on how the coronavirus crisis has impacted his work, and what he is finding reassuring.

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!

Viewers who tune in via Facebook and Instagram Live will be encouraged to give to the DAC fund or the NorthStar Church's of the Arts' Durham Artist Relief Fund

Brock Family Visiting Instructor in Studio Arts Stephen Hayes has two new public monument commissions: a marker for the Chapel Hill Nine in Chapel Hill, and a sculpture honoring the Fifth Regiment of the United States Colored Troops in Wilmington, NC—recently featured in The New York Times.

A sculpture made by Susan Hynes '19 inspired by an Entomology course travels from the Rubenstein Arts Center to Durham's Museum of Life + Science.

As DukeCreate explores remote arts tutorial opportunities with its instructors, we offer this look back at how the series has developed since its founding. "We started thinking about how we could bring more structure and more mentoring, but keep flexible access and non-judgmental engagement with the arts. And that is really the origins of DukeCreate," shared Vice Provost for the Arts Scott Lindroth.

The arts are best experienced in community with one another, and I know this pause on our regular arts programming will be a challenging experience—but your safety is Duke's top priority. Art is also a balm for the soul during uncertain times.

The upcoming Afro-Feminist Performance Routes symposium and the Collegium for African Diasporic Dance highlight the contributions of Black dance, allowing artists, dancers, students, faculty, and the wider Durham community to share in critical inquiry and inspiration.

Five questions for Tyler Edwards (Class of 2022), biology major and producer for Hoof 'n' Horn's The Wiz, the first production with an all-black cast and a sensory friendly performance.

Join Campus Center Art for a reception celebrating artist John Tempest on Friday, Jan 24, from 5:30-7:30pm in the Bryan Center. Tempest will be installing a large scale painting dedicated to his late father and a portrait.

Students and alumni reflect on their experiences at the 10th Annual Duke Entertainment, Media & Arts Network (DEMAN) Weekend on November 1–2, 2019.

Meet the students behind the scenes of Duke Arts—from tour guides to social media superstars—and each an important advocate in supporting our work in growing the arts across campus.

Patty Morton, elected to the Duke Board of Trustees in 2015, has become a powerhouse in cultivating the university’s rapidly expanding arts landscape.

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.

DEMAN Weekend Keynote Speaker Robb Chavis, T'98, speaks toward the decisions he made to switch from life as a lawyer to working as a TV writer for the series "black-ish".

Duke professor and violist Jonathan Bagg specializes in carefully curated experiences of new and exploratory chamber music. Join him and the Ciompi Quartet on July 9 for the premiere of a new multimedia work in Duke Gardens.

Jacob Tobia (T '14) is a writer, producer, and author of the forthcoming memoir, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story. Read their interview with DukeJournos, the Duke alumni journalist network.

A glimpse inside the first year of the American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT) Studio Company residency at Duke University.

Professor Beverly McIver’s introductory painting class took on a special commission this spring for Durham's Cucciolo restaurant.

A Bass Connections team, "Music for Social Change," seeks to serve music education activists where they live. Duke sophomore Dayna Price channeled her experience playing flute into developing research tools for El Sistema USA—and fed her interest in clinical psychology in the process.

We look back at 10 years of the Me Too Monologues at Duke. "It is a communal experience and I think that’s the core of what it means,” says Anne Delmedico, this year's producer. "No matter what challenges you’re facing—whether you relate to the challenges on the stage or not—you are not alone."

“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.

A new music department ensemble opens the vast world of Chinese music to the Duke community. “We mix both Western and Eastern music together,” explains Elizabeth Zhang (Class of 2022). Discover the story behind the music before their performance on Sun, Mar 31.

The emerging transdisciplinary field of social choreography brings embodied knowledge to bear on the creation of new social situations and structures. Exploratory meetings begin on February 14.

Lead actress Rebekah Wellons (Trinity '19) shares her experience staging Love Life, an extraordinary piece of musical theater history, under the direction of Tony Award-winning actress Victoria Clark in Duke’s Musical Theater Workshop class.

Two engineering students and the manager of the Duke Costume Shop share their unique collaboration to build a prosthetic device.

Created in the Ruby through an arts project residency, this new mural honoring farmworkers past, present, and future will be replicated and displayed outdoors at the Duke Campus Farm.

Sugarplum fairies return to Duke after a long absence, thanks to Devils en Pointe.

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.

Experience DEMAN Arts & Media Weekend 2018 through the eyes of our Creative Arts Student Team (CAST).

Pergament will be part of the keynote conversation during Duke’s DEMAN Weekend at 7pm in the Nasher Museum of Art on Friday, November 2.

Baltimore will be part of the keynote conversation during Duke’s DEMAN Weekend at 7pm in the Nasher Museum of Art on Friday, Nov 2.